u/nonbinary-programmer

inspired by a medieval botanical illustration.

I'm struggling with perfectionism with lino prints. I know my success rate with prints will go up with practice, but right now the number that aren't turning out is getting me down. I'm not even sure where to set my expectations though. for those of you with some significant printing experience, how many prints in a run do you usually need to bin? is 100% something I should even be aiming for?

art is based on a medieval illustrated manuscript. I saw it months ago and have been thinking about this sad little egg ever since.

I'm just getting started and this is the crispest print I've gotten so far! I finally have the right ink, a new roller to apply it (the one I borrowed wasn't flat 😭), and my mom lent me her antique tippling press. I'm so excited to start seeing some success with my prints!

I've been scavenging free boxes recently and I have found several new friends. this is my first upcycled beanie baby and I've got more in the works!

all materials are found or things I already had. her accessories were pretty freehand/improvised. I cut out the approximate shapes and pinned and trimmed until it looked right, I just couldn't be bothered to make a pattern. the cloak is a scrap of wool from an old shirt so I darned the moth hole and used the existing hem.

I hope you all get the vision; I've had very mixed reactions from people on this project 😭🤣 but no matter, I will continue to fill their notifications with my Friends (until they tell me to stop)

had to re-upload because my photos were all out of order

((clean small bones, small wet specimen))

I picked up this green beanie baby bear from a free box and gave her a goblin glow up.

- her face is sculpey and acrylic paint, glued to a piece of green linen, which I sewed to the bear. her nose and mole hair is from my most recent haircut.

- the hat is made from burlap from the same free box as the bear, decorated with lavender from my garden and seed pod from a neighbor's garden

- the cape is a scrap of wool gathered to fit around her neck and tied with yarn scraps. I added a darn to fix a moth hole in the wool.

- the bag is a seed pod cut in half, glued to another scrap of burlap. I don't know what kind of seed it is, I got it in a big bag of various seeds and nuts but it looks really cool inside

- her trinkets are a selection of my smaller living room decor

I made this skirt years ago and wear it under things all the time, and it finally started to show the wear. I sewed up the holes and I'm going to add a patch over the one on the side seam as well as some others for decoration but I'll post those in r/visiblemending

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side seam done with ladder stitch, waistband gather done with whip stitch, catching each loose gather on both sides.

this was quite a learning experience but I'm still decently happy with how they turned out! I carved the stamps from easy-carve lino using the tools my late grandpa left me. printed on denim shorts using water based screen printing paint.

plz forgive my mediocre masking of the shorts from their original background. I did it by hand in ProCreate after having too much coffee.

lessons learned in comments

I finished this bodice last week (just in time to get very sick/bedridden/unable to craft 😭). it was my first time doing cording and didn't feel like trying to figure out how much extra width I'd need in various places so I just cut an extra wide piece of fabric and tried to keep it even as I sewed each cord. ended up with 66 cords and 38 eyelets, which I did by hand. cords were by machine, binding was by hand.

this pattern started from drafting instructions for a Tudor bodice but I have made many changes over the last two years and previous 3 bodices. so no pattern, sorry. I think the original reference was The Tudor Tailor but it might have been a blog post? idk for sure

outer fabric and cord were free box finds. interlining is corset canvas. lining is a light wool from my stash. binding is bias tape from my stash. ribbon is silk ribbon I used as hair ribbon before shaving my hair. $0 spent (if we don't count stash stuff).