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fuck it. morningstar

#love this

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#curious about the type of clay & magnets they were using bc neodymium wouldn't survive kiln temps without demagnetizing

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#ooh this is great inspo for future cosplay props

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Whats the ventilation and heat like in the suit head? I can't tell if it would be warmer or more cool to wear in compaison to a faux fur fursuit head. The only thing I worry abt is how durable needlefelting is and if it can be cleaned like a traditional fursuit head. That being said I really hope you continue making these, they're cool as hell 👍🔥👍

Okay first of all I'm super jazzed to be able to talk about this with people, and I kind of went overboard answering this, but thanks for asking! Putting this up in case anyone else is curious.

The main answers to your questions are 1: wool is cooler than acrylic fur and less stinky

2: A fursuit head is a swamp and i am snorkling in it.

I mentioned this in my behind the scenes post and there are pictures there but I literally just made a snorkel out of a snorkel mouthpiece and two collapsible automotive funnels, the kind that you can bend into a shape so that you can get goo into a weird part of your car.

that snorkel piece goes straight out of a vent hole in the inside of the ear and I felted a pink skin flap in front of it and then felted white fiber into that so it just looked like a tuft. it worked perfectly, it's just that I couldn't talk in it that well. But I'm definitely going to keep using it if I can't think of a better mouthpiece for it because as SOON as I breathed inside the head instead of through the snorkel I was like oh my god everyone is living in hell.

You can see it in this picture a little bit. nobody noticed it at all!

My friend had made a much more traditional head with a bigass electric fan in it and he was having more heat issues than I was, because I cannot stress enough that acrylic fur is like, one of the most horrifically hot fabrics you can wear. I don't know how everybody is even alive!! and there's a layer of ACRYLIC BACKING on it! Also check out how "short-pile" my fur is, most of the head is only an inch thick, it's a half-inch bucket head made out of foam covered in maybe 1/3 of an inch of wool? the less space you have between the fibers the less heat gets trapped. I was shocked by how comfortable I was, and I was having migraine symptoms that day and was extra sensitive to heat. The con where we were had the air turned down and it was chilly outside, but I was shocked when I took the head off and shook my hair out and I wasn't even sweating. I had long hair in a wig cap under that thing and I wasn't sweating. It was crazy.

As for cleaning the wool, I cannot find anyone else who has done this who has cleaning tips for me, but the foam is what I'm worried about. After a few hours of wear there's nothing wrong with the wool at all, but i can TELL the foam is ever so slightly nasty, because the foam is polyurethane and wool is what you make hiking socks out of. I have some wool cleaner coming in the mail that's made for delicate needlefelted items like scarves and deposits lanolin, which is what keeps wool "alive" kind of like how you have to care for leather. It's definitely an experiment! Nothing ventured nothing gained!

I don't have an idea in mind for a second head right now and the next thing I want to make is a cowl so I can wear lower-cut tops with this head, but I might try something else if I think of an idea! I'm probably never gonna sell these because I'm weird about selling sculptures for whatever reason. They're like my living beasts.

But I definitely hope this encourages other people who might be interested in bringing needlefelt or other fiber art sensibilities to this space, that would be a massive complement and a high honor to give people a new way to enjoy a hobby that I know means a ton to a lot of people.

#so interesting!

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I adapted a candy cane sugar cookie recipe to use up the smaller shards of my Lofty Pursuits Unicorn Droppings. The pink is pomegranate, blue is Tardis (blueberry?), and purple/brown is pb&j. I think the pomegranate turned out best (& was quite good with chocolate fondue!) I don’t care for the pb&j flavor as much in general, though.

#baking #lofty pursuits #candy sugar cookies #cookies

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My new glasses came with a laser pointer…

#vaseline glass #depression glass #uranium glass #laser #blue laser #laser pointer #video

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U say to urself "i dont need notches, ill know how to orient the pieces when sewing bc i made the pattern" this is the devil speaking. Put notches in ur pattern and cut them into ur fabric. Youll be glad for it

#i follow none of this advice but i have workarounds #mostly i count as i go #for frogging lace i do the last row i need to pull out one stitch at a time to get everything back on the needles #for weaving in short ends I weave in the needle and then put the yarn in it with the eye next to the knot #i do cross stitch one color-section at a time and start from the middle so i can just refer to nearby shapes #i just don’t use notches when sewing

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What happens when I’m let loose in Tallahassee:

#the bags are KiStrawEng; image assortment; berry drops; and forgotten flavors #lofty pursuits #safiya nygaard #southern living

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Finished my gloves today! These are the second afterthought project (the first was the hat, which I’ve ended up wearing a ton) using spare yarn from the scarf I made last year

#knitting #the ‘astrology’ scarf #knit hat #knit gloves #wool #aka it’s still homestuck but more subtle about it

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my parents have introduced me to this concoction which involves alcohol and fire and is from Germany

#i do not remember the name much less how to spell it #you set the alcohol on fire and then stir it which is very fun and interactive #although apparently when they did this at thanksgiving my brother’s girlfriend’s mug exploded

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6 zucchini makes a lot of bread

#baking #zucchini bread

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My parents inherited this quilt from my great-grandmother, but the maker and date are unknown. With no repeating color scheme, it appears to be constructed from a variety of scrap fabrics including shirting, feed sacks, and a few polyester pieces. It is self-bound (the binding is made from the backing). Two edges include half-squares with a different border fabric, suggesting that the quilt top was expanded beyond its original dimensions at some point. The filling is exposed due to damage in several areas, and seems to be cotton batting. The entire quilt is hand-quilted with thick white thread in a running stitch, but the piecing appears to be a mixture of running stitch in the same thread and machine lockstitch in thinner white thread. The binding stitches are quite far apart and perpendicular to the binding edge (this is distinct from a whipstitch, but I don’t remember the name). It’s a very interesting historical textile! My mother is planning to patch the holes and display the quilt on an unused bed.

#patchwork #quilt #historical quilt #textile history

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Found this unusually large egg (normal egg for reference) & it had two yolks!

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it’s arrived safe and sound! I love the texture the carvings have in person

I really like the reality/fantasy differences here, with the deer having more texture and shading

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it’s always why the fuck are you making a periodic table blanket and never how was the periodic cloak did you have fun wearing the periodic cloak

#this is awesome

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obsessed with the era of historical fashion between the 1860s and 1870s where aniline dyes kept being invented. you can find some absolute fucking eyesores of dresses that were only made that way because “acid magenta” was invented last month and it was trendy.

like this iconic gown:

or this one from the 1870s in aniline purple and aniline black:

or a trendy yellow and black gown from c. 1865, perhaps?

feel free to reblog with additional eyesores (affectionate) that i might have missed

#i actually like the bright color/black lace aesthetic #especially the purples

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Printed this ocarina and stand for a gift exchange- I’m not super happy with the layer shifts, but my test version still plays well and I don’t have time to sand it, so let’s call it a “unique texture”

#3d printing #ocarina #guess who spent all morning devising a fingering chart instead of doing schoolwork