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Kofi's a bit under the weather so give them some well wishes, but Sam will be about tonight playing Balatro - a crazy poker rogue like! Don't know what but something's going to happen! http://twitch.tv/kofiassam @ 7PM BST

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We're back at it in Armored Core tonight! Hopefully we'll defeat the Bird Bot of Alcatraz

Join us at 7pm BST over at www.twitch.tv/kofiassam

#kofiassam #kofiassam stream #twitch #Join us in the Bingus battle

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The Naturalist's Library (1852) A. A. Gould

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Greyhound and Peonies

Pen and ink on Arches paper

3 in x 5 in

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DONT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE! DONT STOP TAKING ABOUT GAZA!

DONT LET THEM MAKE YOU FORGET!!

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We're back! This week I don't have a delirious fever so let's blow up some robots! Continuing with Armored Core until Kofi's morale is totally broken.

Tonight (15/4/24) 7PM BST (That's 8PM in Norway!) over at

#kofiassam #kofiassam stream #clearly Norway is highlighted because Sam loves licorice

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This is canon now.

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Hey, Sam is ill, and this work thing has messed me up something fierce, so no stream tonight, sorry. We’ll be back as soon as we can, hopefully next week!

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Milles-fleurs and unicorn study :)

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My biggest struggle as an artist is that all-consuming need for perfection, and my inability to stop examining my creations under a microscope. And this, friends, is why we're on version 5 of this stitch. Gone is the water-soluble pen, we've brought in the archival ink and old transfer techniques.

Some more rambling under the cut!

The transfer method is one I've done a fair amount of reading about, but have never tried. I've tried just about every method under the sun - freehand drawing to tracing to water-soluble paper to tissue paper. I loathe freehand drawing, I don't like washing my pieces after I've stitched them (especially now I've started using silk thread), and I find stitches can get loose after washing away paper or pulling out the tissue.

So I decided to try one last method, my hail mary, and tried prick and pounce. Supply kits aren't easy to come by, so I sort of DIYed it. Vellum, charcoal powder and talc, and some felt pads for furniture hammered into a leftover piece of wood made up the supplies, and I got to experimenting.

I'm not a professional, just a hobbyist with too much spare time and little self-regulation. There are things I would do differently next time - I'd probably tackle it in layers, like a lino print, and more aggressively brush the dust off after I finish connecting the dots.

It's time consuming, but I've never had finer details on the fabric. And because I accidentally wrecked my vellum, this is going to be the final version. I can't keep doing this to myself!

#hand embroidery #embroidery #fiber art #fyafytf #the mechanisms #Art is suffering #i am suffering #Someone please take this away from me #hand stitching #hand sewing

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Kim this is war. I'll be booping you to death now

Bring it, you gremlin.

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Kim this is war. I'll be booping you to death now

Bring it, you gremlin.

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Written a new song for Kofi Club! This one’s a little out of my wheelhouse stylistically so I’m still figuring a couple things out…stay tuned!

#kofi club #kofi young #i'm very excited for this #New Kofi music soon!

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Hello! Sam and I are back on stream tonight after a week off.

Heads up, we’ve moved to daylight savings in the UK so the stream’s gonna start at 7 *BST* - if you don’t do daylight savings or they haven’t started where you are, that means we’re going on 1 hour earlier than our regular time relative to you!

Catch the previous episode of Armored Core here:

#kofiassam stream #kofiassam #twitch #Monday is saved #It's an Easter miracle #let’s play

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One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it's done.

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What's your opinion on the sequel song to "I Am Not A Varmint"?

In case it needed to be made excruciatingly clear that I am not, in fact, a varmint.

Whether I am a creature, an apparition, or a haunt is still up in the air of course.

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“Neck lengths of birds + aggression: a study.”

By @inomnomcom