I Have No Pottery This Weekend But My Jesmonite & Terrazzo Kits Should Be Arriving Today! Exciting!!

I enjoy needle felting A LOT. There's just something about stabbing things into shape that is very satisfying, and I think it's the closest fibre art to pottery in that I can just fuck around and find out, add a bit of stuff it things feel off etc. 😗

Kit link: https://www.themakerss.co.uk/products/sewing-mouse-small-needle-felt-kit

Anyway, I started this fella at a Stitch Festival last week. Not gonna lie, the little sewing machine was a major factor why I signed up. 😂 And the glasses!?

The workshop was a bit rushed but the instructions were pretty clear and I'm happy with the end result of course. : )

Progress pics:

Whales (crochet and needle felted)

My flatmate requested a 'whale in a top hat'. I originally wanted to do something in trans flag colours but the light pink yarn I started with felt a bit meh... I already had an order coming with some Hobbii Universe, so I went to my local yarn shop to try and find something suitable for the belly and Schwedenrot sock in Over the Rainbow* seemed to more or less fit the bill.

I think the yarns go decently well together and again, I have more luck than reason in that they ended up being similar (very fine for me!) weight and I could sew them up without the wee guy being horrifically misshapen haha. Doesn't really read trans in the end due to more green-ish elements than blue tho...

As I finally gifted him around St Patrick's Day the 'top hat' (the top of which likes to pop up making it not look like a top hat...) element is green, so his name is Wally O'Whaley! 🐋🍀🏳️‍⚧️

The needle felted guy is really just a cleanup, I must have started him 4-5 years ago, probably from a kit? I like the shape of the fins a lot!

Pattern:

Baby Humpback Whale: https://www.1dogwoof.com/humpback-whale-crochet-pattern/

*the sock yarn came in a hank - I've never had one before and it was a FUCKIGN NIGHTMARE to unravel and get into a workable state. I'd say never again but I already bought another nice hand dyed hank at stitch fest so I will just continue suffering?? 🥲

Made a Susie Deltarune amigurumi.

If you want more detail/other angles, peep this.

Masterful Disco Elysium gameplay: spend 8 hours having your character obsess over their own sexuality. The only in game reward is that you get your detective partner to admit he's gay. Win

AmiguruMay Day 6 - WIP: work in progress

ngl i fell off with this challenge but it's never too late to catch up?? 🙃

dilly dallied around London at minumum efficiency today and made a good start at a new lil guy

i've decided to try and crochet with more things things that are not cotton so this is baby alpaca. feels pleasant to work with but does not end up as soft as you'd think and i think will require some gentle blocking (not sure how to pull it all off with stuffing, sewing things together etc)

Kicking myself cos I never thought about visualising roadmaps this way 🤦🏻‍♀️ (it would also make it obvious where the organisation is headless, hopefully)

Equal Experts

Continuous Evolution Part 3: The Roadmap Radar - When is a plan not a plan?

The Roadmap Radar ensures that all efforts are clearly aligned to your strategic goals and objectives.

Horse girl Radahn

This is a good talk about measuring things with a great caveat which gets at the core of why a lot of my ‘delivery’ job often ends up being about ‘product’ things. 🫠