So the sleeves were attached with the flat felled seam and the closings for the side seams and the sleeves itself were done with the overlocker.

Added a chest pocket and tried to respect the pattern of the fabric for the pocket.

After making some crux for myself and my daughter, I decided to make a pair for my climbing buddy. It was rather interesting to take his measurements in the locker room, but I think we did alright. The fit is good, and he obviously loves them. This the the 'capris' length.

I made a Wahid out of scrap leather for my LARP character (you can kinda see my 3d printed artificer artifact puzzle in the photo lol)! I made a single layer mock up with cotton canvas and tailored it to fit tightly, and cut pieces of leather scrap and glued + basted them to the wrong side, covering the darts to sculpt it to my body shape. I covered the gaps between the edges of pieces with a wide and tight zig zag stitch using multiple shades of brown to give a mossy/bark-like look and finished with heavy duty snaps for the closure! This is my third Wahid and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and it worked really well for the LARP:)

My daughter was visiting us for a couple of weeks, so I had to make her a pair of crux to take to her own climbing gym. They turned out well, and she likes them a lot.

I made this design so I could make my own climbing / hiking pants. After finishing the design, I made these to see how well they would work in the climbing gym. I'm glad to say that they performed well, and I only wear these (and two other pair I made since) in the indoor climbing gym now.

It was overall very tight and I don't know why, it had a good amount of ease. The neck hole is also extremely tight. I'll try another one with more ease. Now I just took in the sides and I got a hoodie that is absolutely not my color but it's cosy. Jost, thank you for giving us the opportunity to at least try to make nice things.

The back uses individual grommets, cotton cording, and fan lacing to make this corset easy to get into.

This is the standard Octoplushy variant with no major modifications, except adding the hair as a little circle of faux fur on top. The fabric is minky for all parts. Also did you know that googly eye rivets for plush toys are a thing? You do now.

There have been several discussions about making these plush toys in unusual sizes. Going big isn't that complicated, but going much smaller has its limitations. I had to modify the pattern, leaving out the teeth, combining the mouth and belly parts into one, making the body a bit wider, and changing the way the fins are attached.

The material is regular minky, all hand sewn, and the eyes are 5mm rhinestone rivets, attached with a faux leather backing piece (like a washer), so they don't work their way out of the stretchy fabric.

A shiny Sophie made as a mockup, will definitely not be my last.

This one has some thicker tentacles, as well as a little bit more #sashiko to spice it up. The face is notably different, too. I think I like the embroidered face more, but this one has a certain manic charm.

My third 100% scale hi shark made with help from my mother, using minky fabric i found on aliexpress. I am extremely pleased with how it turned out.

The printed cotton canvas is from the last 2 yards of fabric I purchased from the local Joann before her untimely demise. The rib-knit cotton for the cuffs, waistband, and collar was dyed to its wine-purple color using Rit dye on the stovetop.

The fabric used is boiled wool - I picked up 2 yards of antique white and dyed them to the various shades I needed on the stove.

The ladies on the back come from the Ladies in Blue fresco, reconstructed in the 1910s from rubble found at the Minoan palace at Knossos. The dolphin and fish from the front are from a different room of the same palace complex. The octopus on the sleeves is from a vase found at a different site, Palakaistro, on the same island.

Two pairs of friends of mine are having babies soon, so I figured I'd make plushies for their newborns! We just replaced our old couches and the old ones were really not suitable for use by anyone, anymore, so they were due for the dump. The fabric of the cushions was still in good shape, though, and the filling of the cushions was perfect for a plushie, too. Still, it took a lot of effort to make this—the second plushie will have shorter and thicker tentacles.