Just Create - Teddy Bear edition

[dianec42]

It's the weekend again!

What are you working on? What do you need support with? Any fun events you want to plug?

Don't forget to encourage the other commenters!

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[dianec42]

I finished the teddy bear quilt! Pics here: https://dianec42.dreamwidth.org/668365.html

Wow do I need to get my ass in gear on my brother's memory quilt. (And learn an easier way to do the binding. No way in hell am I doing that much hand sewing ever again.)

I did acquire backing fabric so that was something. Jo-Ann didn't have any chambray shirting I liked, so I went with actual quilting fabric in a nice powder blue.

[soc_puppet]

That quilt looks great!

Urgh, I hear you on an easier way for binding. I don't even do quilts, and while part of the reason is that I desperately do not need Yet Another Fiber Art, a somewhat more practical part of the reason is that my sewing setup is just. Not at all conducive to machine quilting. And I refuse to do any substantial amount of sewing by hand. A little bit here and there to close some seams? Sure. Whatever I need for amigurumi? Fine. Anything beyond that? I am not falling for it.

Anyway, good luck! I hope you find a long arm sewing machine (for example) on sale somewhere.

[dianec42]

Thanks! I so do not have space for a longarm machine! I may have to spring for a large-throat machine at some point. I managed to do competent straight-line quilting on my regular old Brother, but I'm not sure how big a quilt I can jam through there without violating the laws of physics.

Also I have just this moment noticed I'll be using my Brother to make a quilt about my brother. Seems appropriate.

[sunfright]

That quilt is gorgeous. Love the colours. It looks so soft.

Powder blue is my favourite colour. Well picked.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Pretty quilt!

[soc_puppet]

You can find my latest rats over here! You may recognize a few from last week, I've kinda lost track of what I've posted where 😅 I have also officially implemented my custom fancy rat mood theme at my journal 😊 I'm really looking forward to using moods in all of my personal posts, so I can see cute ratties

On a related note, moodthemeinayear has finished the first leg of the "official" suggested schedule, and will begin the second leg on Monday! Now is a great time to jump in if you're interested in making your own mood theme; you can follow along with the suggested community schedule, start at the beginning, or create your own schedule as you go! As long as you end up with something you're happy with in a time frame you're happy with, you will have met the goal of the community.


In brickspace, I successfully rotated my mattress, changed and washed the sheets, washed all of my bathroom linens, and all of my other laundry! I still have to fold and store socks and underthings, but at the moment the only dirty clothes in my hamper are from yesterday.

[readera]

The rat icons look so cute! I love the confused one.

Yay for laundry & rotating the mattress! I always forget thats some thing that your supposed to do. I still have to do my normal laundry. But how much laundry I can do depends on if my partner is feeling up to driving to the laundromat.

[sunfright]

I've been working on editing my novel, Lest They Leave. It's been through two betas now and I've slowly implemented the notes I've got from them. Still waiting on one beta, but then that part of the process should be done which is an relief, I don't deal with all this waiting on hearing back-stuff all that well, LOL.

One of my betas has a brother who does professional book covers and she's talked him into making one for my novel which is such a sweet, incredibly generous gesture and I'm honestly stoked about it. She had me writing a blurb for the back which currently looks like this but is a work in progress still:

“Finally on my way somewhere, she thought to herself, looking out the windows of the Marseille – Paris train that was taking her home for the first time in fifteen years, and not merely for the sizzling heat of summer or the snowy chill of Christmas, not merely to visit. No, to stay.

She was very excited.”



When Sylvie Gallard is called home to Paris by her brother, Charles, for the first time in more than a decade, she sees it as an opportunity to finally reestablish a bond to her last remaining family, but when she realises that he is purposefully planning to get her hitched with his business partner, Armand Dubois, her dream of an idyllic life in her old childhood home begins crumbling. A process of ruination that is only worsened when she meets Eloisa Paolo, famed stage actress and furthermore, Charles’ squeeze.

Set in 1920’s Paris, this is a story of love, loss and self-discovery. For lovers of The Great Gatsby.

Last but not least, I'm waiting for my Napoli fic to get claimed for art for smallfandombang, and gotten back to uploading my big Omina verse novel to AO3, so I'm keeping busy, I guess.

[soc_puppet]

Goodness, that's quite a lot of stuff! It sounds like you're making great progress on all of it, though; and congrats on the book cover! I hope it turns out well!

[sunfright]

Thank you so much! It is a lot, but I'm managing to stay on top of it for now...

[readera]

I did a lot of housecleaning this weekend. The most Creating I have done was making a new variation of cottage pie. It did turn out well. I made imitation ground beef out of tofu using this recipe. https://theeburgerdude.com/tofu-ground-beef/#mv-creation-157-jtr



I intended to mend some of my shirts that have holes in them but I didn't have the energy. Maybe tomorrow.

[soc_puppet]

Yay for housecleaning! And yay for a successful new recipe! Both worthy of celebration—and a break! The mending can wait for later.

[readera]

Thank you! Yeah I figured it was time for a break when I put on a movie for background noise & just ended up watching the movie instead of getting up to get mending supplies.

On the plus side I did get groceries & they finally had my tea in stock. So I have tea again!

[cornerofmadness]

Still racing the deadline on my SF thriller story

[wyld_dandelyon]

In honor of this being the teddy bear edition, here's a centauroid foxy fellow I made a while back:

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This week, I've mostly been participating in FAWM, and making songs. FAWM is a challenge much like NaNoWriMo, except it's about songwriting. The goal is to practice the art of writing songs, and if you get 14 during the month of February, you get bragging rights and a teeny tiny trophy next to your name on the site. And new songs to sing, if you like any of the ones you dreamed up, of course. The link to one of them is below. I'm not sure what coding I need, so if you want to listen to it, you may have to copy it and paste the url into your browser.

https://soundcloud.com/deirdre-moira-murphy/whirlwind-lover

Also, for part of FAWM, I drew a postcard to send to another songwriter to use as a song prompt. It's not real perfect, but it was a fun visual art break from doing audible art.

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[alexseanchai]

I definitely have to move Yuuri's free skate to chapter 5 of Jeu des princesses, that's good to know

[dragonjournal]

I have decided to learn a new skill. A skill that will probably mean having to learn Photoshop.

I want to make my own cross stitch patterns. Meaning, I would need to figure out how to do that, and then start with some super simple basic ones, and move on from there.

But this is an idea I'm toying with.

[dianec42]

Fun!

I know there are software packages and websites for making designs. But beyond "20 years ago the software SUCKED" that is almost all I know.

MacStitch / WinStitch are the softwares I know of, and StitchFiddle is a website. And now you know everything I do! Good luck!