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I think if I was born centries or more ago, I would be perfectly content to sew, embroider, crochet, etc. I love working with my hands and making things!! I don't make crafts everyday, but they remain a constant in my life.

Not a log of All the crafts I've made, but highlights of my favorite ones.

Fabric, thread, and Yarn

Crochet

a white doily, a pastel rainbow doily, and four pastel rainbow coasters on a wooden background. large doily with ivory in the center, warm pink in the middle, and burgandy on the outer. I has 12 petal shaped points.
2024-2025 - I just learned how to crochet in 2024 and my favorite things are round things like doilies and coasters! I like doilies because they are small enough to finish, not too boring since every row is different, but there is also a nice repetition within each row. Now my house looks like a grandma lives in it. Unfortunately this also means I am vulnerable to buying pretty yarn.

The white doily and the large three color doily were made using Draiguna's Moonpetals pattern. The pastel textured doily was made using Grace Fearon's Mable pattern. Not blocked because I don't care enough, I also suck at picots. The coasters are very simple: magic circle; 12dc in circle; increase each round by 12dc until there are 60dcs (24, 36, 48, 60, the first dc for each round will be a ch3); edging is sc, skip one, five dc in the next st, skip one, sc (with each ending sc being the beginning sc for the next hump).

five long oval shaped chrochet pieces, each made from different yarn colors and with different edging.
2025 - I made these since I had painted my window sills brown, but my cats, especially when they were little and struggling to get up on my window sills, ended up scratching them. These were intended to protect the window sills from being scratched, and while it has helped, they often knock them off.

Stuffed frogs

six small felt frogs of various patterns lined up together. pattern for the simple frog, with two side panels and a belly panel. side panels of frog pattern with the top arch sew together. The frog side panels opened and pinned to the belly panel.
Made from Boigameista's felt frog pattern on tumblr! You first sew the sides together along the top arch, then sew those to the bottom belly, before turning inside out and stuffing.

Sun Catchers

I have made so many suncatchers, too many to log here, but here are some of my favorites :3 (which tend to feature rainbows shockingly enough)

A silverish hoop with a thick bottom engraved with a floral design has multiple hooks along its bottom edge to attatch bits. From the outer hooks and center are dangles. From the center is a rainbow made from round transparent beads, from which a facetted drop hangs. On each side are long chains with a tiny sead rainbow near the end of each from which a clear charm hangs. A thin dangle of just one main chain ending in a facetted drop. Above the drop on the chain hange a few beads as charms. Before the pendant is a section of pastel rainbow beads. Below the drop hangs a small clear bead, suspended from higher up on the chain. A dangle composed of large rainbow star beads, with 11 different colored stars making up the rainbow. Below the stars is a small rainbow bead section, ending in a large crystal pendant. A delicate dangle beginning in a small metal butterfly, going through an soft earthy colored rainbow of round beads, and ending in a wire cresent moon filled with swirls. From the top point of the moon hangs a small clear bead.
May 2023 - Most of my dangles are assmbled from craft bits I have hanging around, some from when I was very young, much salvaged from my brothers ex-wife's supply. I make these on the fly with no planning, just taking inspiration from the components I have at hand ^^ Note that large crystals will throw the best rainbows in the sun.

Earings and Accessories

Rainbow hoop earings

a gold hoop with eight colorful beads dangling from it. They are aranged in rainbow order and suspended from thin gold chain. On the hoop are gold colored sead beads to space the dangling beads out evenly.
May 2023 - I have made many rainbow earings, but these are by far my favorite. Perfect size and elegant, though fragile. The small beads on the hoop were used to separate the chains suspending the rainbow beads so that they wouldn't clump together.

Bajoran earings

23 round silver earings each with a dangle. Each one is different and aranged on a folder.
2020 - Bajoran earings I made, styled after the earings Bajorans wear in Star Trek. They are made from antique buttons, spray paint, and assorted craft bits for the dangles and centers.
Kira from Star Trek DS9 wearing a retro futuristic earing. Riker disguised as a Bajoran, wearing a round earing with a center gem and dangle. Male Bajoran wearing an earing with a center gem and dangle.
The references I used to make the earings. They all seemed to have a large round metal base, oftentimes but not always with a gem in its center, and something dangling from it. It is always featured with a cuff attatched by a chain from the ear cartilage to the earing base.
Layered antique buttons pinned on a cardboard box, not yet painted.
I used antique buttons for their unique designs and textures, often gluing a smaller button ontop of a larger. I then painted them black and then spray painted them with a mirror or chrome spray paint. After that I glued a rhinestone or costume gem into the center of buttons that still had visible button holes. Then I glued a post to the back, also affixing a hook for the dangles to attatch to, which I assmbled from chain, beads, and bead pins.

Goth choker

a choker asembled from black and red lace which a chain clasp. Three ribbon roses are in the center, two red on top and one white on bottom. Below the roses dangle black beads strung from thin silver colored chain. The middle bead is strung on a notably thicker chain than the side beads.
2019 - A choker made entirly from craft scraps I had on hand. Possibly made earlier than 2019, but that was the picture date.

Origami

I learned orgiami when I was 8 from library books! I rarely make any these days, except paper stars and post it note cranes.

Paper stars

Small 1mL testosterone vial with about 25 tiny paper stars in it, in a rainbow. A bunch of rainbow colored tiny paper stars cupped in my hand. Six 1mL testosterone vials filled with paper stars. The colors of stars are layered to make bi, lesbian, nonbinary, trans, pan, and rainbow gay flag.
2021 - I sometimes make tiny paper stars from 4mm strips of colorful paper. They fit perfectly in my old testosterone bottles, so I made a few pride flags. I wanted to make ace and aro flags too but I don't have any grey paper.

Sculptures

Mark (OC)

painted sculpture of a stylized man sitting. He's wearing jeans and a blouse. character sculpture without paint. Some sculpy laid over a wire and aluminum foil frame, forming rough anatomy of the torso.
2018 - Final project for my art class in senior year. I enjoyed our previous project where we all made sculpey characters, so I made one of my character Mark.

Mushroom Lady

sculpture of a feminine figure with mushroom motifs. She is brown with a long hair resembling a cap with tan ruffles. Her nose is shaped like a sliced mushroom and her lips have folds like the underside of a mushroom cap. A variety of mushroom growths accent her body. The same figure but unpainted. A wirebase of the figure, with tin foil bulking out her torso and legs.
2017 - The art project that inspired my Mark sculpture. We worked with sculpey, which you can bake in a home oven. I enjoyed this project and designing her.
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