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Do you make crafts? Do you like to look at crafts? Would you like to get (or give) advice about crafts? All crafts are welcome. Share photos, stories about projects in progress, and connect with other crafty folks.

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ladythmpr

Hi all!

October will be here in 2 DAYS! Since 2008, October for me has been National Craft Making Month, or NaCraMaMo for short. NaCraMaMo started as a community on LJ, and I started a new

nacramamo community on DreamWidth when I moved here in 2017.

In short, during National Craft Making Month in October, you work on a craft every day for a month and post pictures of your work daily in

nacramamo.

nacramamo is very free-form; you can work on the same project every day or work on different projects every day. Crafting is also very loosely defined; it's basically anything that you do with your hands that results in a tangible object. For example, I count baking as crafting, but I don't count making dinner as crafting (but you might!)

A lot of people use

nacramamo as a jumpstart for Halloween projects and Winter holiday gift making.

I'd love to have you join me, giving it your best shot.

yourlibrarian

The wire tree over the shell pendant was a great look, in part because it cut down the iridescence of the backing. I decided to go with some soft pale blue stone, and then copper birds to match the wire tree. I also added in some faceted fire polish coins to echo the light-catching of the pendant. ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

Posting this late this month, because the day I was going to do so, we got a new post here \o/ Welcome to everyone new joining us since August!

This post is to prompt anyone who has been doing crafting lately to share about their projects. Plus there's a general question for everyone to chime in on.

This month I wanted to ask about crafting costs. A lot of us have experienced increased costs for all sorts of things, crafting material included.

How have you all dealt with this? Have you changed the kind of items you get, do exchanges with other crafters, stockpile stuff from clearances or store closures? Do tell!

priscilla_king

Hello! I'm new here. I followed a link from Ysabetwordsmith's blog.

I don't usually post here. I usually live at Blogspot or Substack. And I don't usually post photos.

I do, however, knit, and if I took digital photos to ost, they'd be of knitted work.

Meanwhile it's fun to see what others are makng.

Current Location: Gate City, Virginia
Current Music: "Say Hello"

ysabetwordsmith

This post covers planting the candy jar terrarium. Begin with Part 1: Setup.

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Current Mood: accomplished

ysabetwordsmith

Today I assembled the large candy jar terrarium. Continue with Part 2: Plants.

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Current Mood: accomplished

bookscorpion

Strawberry Cheesecake Yarn

That was a very drawn out project I spun mostly on my EEW Nano wheel over the course of a couple of months. The base is a merino colourway by Woolfiend, plyed with Cobuger Fuchsschaf (top right), black merino (bottom right), grey Corriedale (bottom left) and grey Gotland fibre - it turned out so nice, I am super pleased. Despite the variety of fibre, it came out all about the same weight

some more photos here on my website

yourlibrarian

Wore this one up top to a dentist appointment and the hygienist was enthusiastic about its colorfulness. The pendant on the bottom photo was a bookmark I was given. I don't read in paper for various reasons, and also don't like the kind that pin pages since it damages the books. It was a great color though, so decided to put it into a necklace. ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

Not sure what they're actually called but the center in the compass pendant and the oval one have what seems like a multicolored foil interior that looks orange, green or both depending on the light. You can see the orange a bit above and mostly green below. ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

Didn't quite match the color gradations but thought it worked well enough as a whole. ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

Some recent necklaces, a large one given the stone chunks, and a smaller one made for my partner (inspired by a Veronica Mars rewatch where it seemed virtually every male character wore some variation on this). ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

It's a new month and time for a check in about crafts you may have been creating or planning.

Also a question for everyone: How helpful have you found crafting classes? Have you ever taken one? Have you ever taught one? And if you have taught or taken, what was the most helpful tip you've given or received?

badly_knitted

I was browsing through the photos I've uploaded to dreamwidth to see which cross stitch pieces I've posted to my journals and which I haven't yet, and came across a photo of my favourite sweater, so I thought I'd share it here. I've made this design 5 times over the years, twice for my sister with a sage green background, and three times for myself, this one, a lighter blue, and a rust colour.

The design isn't actually knitted in, because I'm not good at that, it's stitched on afterwards using the Swiss darning technique, which follows the knitting stitches so it just LOOKS knitted. I've made quite a few picture sweaters using this technique. I like the extra thickness it gives on the front.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

This is the last set of designs I completed. finished a week or so ago. They're smaller than the seashells, only about 11 by 8cm, and again stitched on 18 count with one strand of thread. this time I used rustico aida, which I love stitching on.

Again, putting the pics behind a cut because of size.

( Pictures here... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

nuh_s

Cover of book showing wine red damask, a title plate with gold outline, and gold splatter.
Finally done with my biggest bookbinding project yet! One of my all-time favorite fics, Head In The Lion's Mouth by renwhit.

I'm really happy with how this came out. I knew I wanted wine and gold as the color scheme. The wine colored damask was a placemat that I harvested and scraped away a lot of deteriorated batting/filling from the inside. The gold is metallic ink that I mixed 1:1 Brass and Bronze, which ended up with a very nice antique gold look. The Brass on its own looks too yellow, especially on page edges.

The typesetting. I tried out being more creative this time 'round. I put in fancy first letters of each chapter, and effect I like a lot. There are sections of the fic that switch to being right-aligned, so I had to add all of that by hand.

The binding! Despite the thickness of the book, I went with my normal method (Sea Lemon's stitch) rather than attempting a curved spine. Unfortunately, somehow when I set the glue on the spine to dry, the text block was weirdly angled and dried uneven. Which meant I spent twice as long (more actually, but I'll get to that) sanding down the edges to be even.

For doing the edges, I tried out applying the metallic ink with a brush (bad idea #1) and sealing it in with beeswax (bad idea #2). It looked good in the press, but when I cracked the pages, it became an uneven ugly mess. That meant...more sanding! Another half hour of sanding later, I did my normal technique of applying the ink with a piece of cloth (so it's drier than with a brush) and leaving it at that.

The title plate. Originally, I wanted to try using an iron-on sheet, but I couldn't get it to peel. Instead, I used normal paper with a single layer of varnish to give it a hint of water resistance and glued it on.

The splatter really added the verve and spunk the book needed. While Danny has wine red blood that splatters on a gold-toed shoe, this book cover inverts it! The wine red is a little more purple than the photos capture.
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badly_knitted

I finished these a few weeks back but only just got around to taking photographs a few days ago. Nevertheless, as promised, here are pics of the 6 seashell designs I stitched. I used 18 count antique white aida for these, and a single strand of thread, to make the designs small enough for use on greetings cards. Size wise, they're approximately 13.5 by 10 cm. The square one is obviously smaller. Putting both pics behind a cut for size reasons.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

yourlibrarian

A herd of elephants up top, and a necklace for my relative in her favorite color. ( Read more... )

thepasteldyke

Recently I made a couple of new earrings based on the character Takeuchi from the series Mars Red. I've made more earrings featuring this character but these are the newer ones.

A pair of earrings suspended on clear plastic in front of a wall. The earrings are of a black logo with a grinning character that wears an eyepatch. Text around the head reads 'takeuchi pharma'. A bow dangled from it from a chain, a drop-shaped pearl at the bottom. The other earring is just a bow on a chain.

Stud earrings of a little chibi anime head of a character with an eyepatch, smiling

I only made one of the leftmost earrings cus it's a pain working with clear shrinky-dink plastic lol (I also only had one red drop bead but that's a different problem)

yourlibrarian

Just a notice that our affiliate

icontalking is looking for people to ask questions of their icon making volunteers who stepped forward to talk about icon making and share tutorials as so far they don't have any 😟

yourlibrarian

I love the brightness of oyster shell beads. Combined them with some glass squares and amazonite balls. Festive! ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

Some short necklaces in brown and gold. Up top wood, amazonite and metal balls. Below the cut wood discs with glass studded metal beads and glass E beads. I had originally been thinking of this use for the wood discs until I found the pendant in my previous post.

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yourlibrarian

I was thinking that our monthly check-ins might take place near the start of each month but with a few other things going on the past week, I've left it until now to kick this off.

The idea is to prompt everyone to share what they have been working on, are working on, or want to be working on 😉 And I thought for this first round I might offer a challenge. What does your workspace (or spaces) look like? ( Read more... )

darkdanc3r

I've been crocheting a lot of these little guys - fidget octopode! I have them in trans, non-binary, ace, rainbow, lesbian, rave and glow-in-the-dark colorways. They're for my table at a convention in February of 2026, though I'm willing to take commissions now.

Trans-colored crochet octopus

Current Mood: cheerful

yourlibrarian

As part of the

sunshine_revival first challenge, thought I'd share some pictures here of recent favorites I'd made:

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luna_moon

Hello all! I do all sorts of crafts, but recently I picked Kandi making back up! I used to make make singles back 10 or so years ago. I was always impressed by all the cool cuffs people would make, but I guess I never figured it out. Recently I checked out a newer-to-me queer group in my town and a few people there make Kandi! They had some really cool designs. A few people in the group are plural too, and make bracelets for their headmates. The whole thing made me really interested in picking it back up again!

I followed the tutorial on Kandi Patterns and changed around a few of the colors.

A Kandi cuff bracelet of hello kitty's face

A Kandi cuff bracelet of hello kitty's face

( Back of cuff )

- Luna

yourlibrarian

It's been great to see the posts kicking things off for this community! I've been trying to spread the word and am happy to announce that there are now 6 affiliates for

everykindofcraft:

icontalking,

tatting,

justcreate,

get_knitted,

homemade2homemade, and

crochet.

icontalking is gearing up right now for its annual tutorial/ask the maker event. So if you've ever wanted to know how to do something graphic related, chances are some of these experts can help you out!

Although I've tried to contact many communities there are undoubtedly ones I've missed because of specialized names or perhaps not matching their listed interest exactly. If you know of any I could reach out to, do let me know below.

Also, if there are people you know who post about crafts, tell them about

everykindofcraft! It would be lovely to be a hub for all sorts of works 😊

Lastly, I came across the following cartoon and thought it was very on point about sharing our work as well as doing crafts in the first place:

kazzy_cee

I mentioned in my last post here that I had repainted the face on one of my doll's house dolls, and I thought people might like to see some before/after photos. Here are the weird/scary faces the dolls came with.

Prospective Sherlock Holmes

Dr Watson 'before'

Under the cut for the repaints.

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ysabetwordsmith

I spotted this video about harvesting, shaping, and firing wild clay. I did that back in high school at Ancient Lifeways Camp. It was a lot of fun to dig and clean the clay, then make things. Our theme was Sumeria, so we made oil lamps (harder than you'd think) and cuneiform quotes. I also made a ceramic goddess figurine. We used a pit fire, which helps keep the temperature more stable. If you have a source of natural clay, this kind of project is well worth trying.

We could use tags for Clay or Ceramics and Video. You might want something like Ancient Crafts or Historic Methods or the like.

Current Mood: busy

kazzy_cee

I'm working on my second doll's house, which is going to be the home of Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson and Mrs Hudson, as well as incorporating a shop on the corner of the plot. I've been steadily making little things for this one including a gladstone bag for Dr Watson (because he has to have one!).

Here he is holding it so you can get an idea of scale. I repainted his face and redressed him as the original face looked like something out of Cabaret....!

yourlibrarian

Wish the pendant had come out better in the photo, it's so pretty in person. But it's also easier to see the beading pattern and colors in the pic so I guess it works out. ( Read more... )

nuh_s

Back in school, I read the Holocaust memoir If This Is A Man by Primo Levi, and I printed it out. I had it as a stack of plain half sheets (not signatures) held together with binder clips. Since getting into bookbinding, I wanted to try and make that print out nicely bound, giving it the respect it deserves and making the print out much more readable.

This was my first time doing a perfect bind (gluing the pages along the spine rather than sewing), and I think it went pretty well. I did about 4 layers of PVA glue, and it seems to be holding up well. This was also my first time adding a title to the cover. I used Black Sumi Ink and brushes to do the cover design with rubber bands around the book for the straight edges.

For the page edges, I did an extra sanding with the fine grit that really helped with the uneven flecks/scraps that I had on the last book.

Front cover of If This Is A Man by Primo Levi. It has a tan cover with black lines.

Front cover of If This Is A Man by Primo Levi. It has a tan cover with black lines.

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dualscreen

Good evening! This seems like a fun little community so I figure I'd contribute a bit. I sometimes make my own cross stitch patterns in MS paint and this was one of them.

mushroom cross stitch

Does anybody else try and make their own patterns, be it cross stitch or any other medium?

Current Music: Black Eyes - Radical Face

nuh_s

More adventures with fanbinding! "mulberry down!!" is a short story/novella by Nicole Kornher-Stace. It's original work about portal fantasy and dreams and bonds up on the internet archive here.

Slim bound book with blue tree cover and gilded edges

Slim bound book with blue tree cover and gilded edges

I wanted to try out edge gilding (iron on). Sanding the edges fine and using a tiny iron helped, but it still came out pretty flaky and not even. I'm gonna mess around with the sanding more to avoid weird edges, and I'm gonna try using beeswax to seal it before flexing the pages.

This bind is a little wonky. The spine ended up angled, but I sanded the edges straight and then didn't align the cover properly. I'm still pleased with it though!

More pictures below.

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matsushima

Hi,

everykindofcraft! I'm excited about this community because I am a "every kind of craft"-er! I love trying new crafts. Right now, I am teaching myself how to cross-stitch:

My go-to, however, is always crochet:

As much as I love crochet, it's hard on my hands - I have chronic pain and already require regular nerve block injections in my dominant hand to keep it functional. I tried cross stitch because I thought it might be easier on my thumbs/wrists.

What are your favorite low spoons crafts?

Current Mood: hopeful

ysabetwordsmith

One of my projects this year is making terraria.

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Current Mood: busy

nuh_s

Yay new crafting community!

I just started getting into bookbinding / fanbinding. I got really into it conceptually a couple years ago and bought all the supplies but didn't really do anything with them until now. I've been using Renegade Bindery's formatting tutorials and Sea Lemon's binding tutorials. It is tremendously fun. I've done the first couple (Fairgoers by renwhit and a collection of King Falls AM fics) with quilting cotton + heatnbond + tissue paper for book cloth, but I recently got a bunch of leather for free, so I may start experimenting with leather covers too using Ingenius Designs' tutorials.

On my docket is
- "mulberry down!!" by Nicole Kornher Stace, already printed and sewn with book cloth prepped, needs edge sanding
- "Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling" by Sciosa, currently working on formatting
- Something that will allow me to do a wacky patchwork style cover using scrap fabric sticking to the heatnbond to avoid having to sew it
- Working on figuring out iron-on page gilding. Probably needs edge sanding first as the unsanded paperback I tried it on didn't adhere evenly though the tiny iron helped.
- Acquire acid-free paper for prints going forward

Book with a blue waterfall-esque pattern cover

Book with a blue waterfall-esque pattern cover

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