I mean, sweetheart... It's been just a few days, ok, maybe a few days over a week since this gourd top has been sitting here and waiting for the right idea... and you've already moved in?

*Any gourd fans here?

Talking about dyeing with plants... Here is the easiest way to get a nice plant print on fabric. Toddler shirts with unexplainable stains made me try to put more stains on those shirts to prolong their life just a bit. I'm trying to use everything until it lasts and reuse, recycle and upcycle to last a little longer, waste less, buy less. I hate to throw out those perfectly usable shirts that just look terribly dirty because of plant, fruit and berry stains that happens in enormous amounts for kids who live outdoors whole summer long. Well, pretty plant stains put on shirts with the hammer stay pretty for about 3-4 times in the washing machine.

I was dreaming to hammer plants on a table cloth last summer, but I didn't get there. This is an easy way to get the juices of plants on textiles you aren't planning to wash too often. Doll fabrics, a tie, maybe... altar cloths?

It's also a productive way to release anger, frustration and agression. I hope you will give it a try.

I'm a messy crafter. In my Witch Town destruction is the mother of creation and chaos is a fertile ground.

My favourite part of doll crafting is this. Not styling or dressing up, but discovering the character, finding its' essence through colours, stiffness, lightness, roughness, flow and I dare to say vibration of the fabric and shiny trinkets. I use pre-loved, unwanted, outworn, broken etc materials to make my dolls. Those materials are donated and sometimes sent to me from across 7 seas. Sometimes the choice is between landfills and my craftroom, between announcing something a trash or it becoming a treasure again. I work with former belongings of those alive and deceased, giving them second life in my dolls. And I think it just adds value to them. It makes them special.

Sometimes it's the materials that lead the way to the finished doll, not my ideas. In that sense I myself as an artist feel more like a door, like gate for these creatures to enter the world, not the god that creates them. It's my job to serve them and find what they need, not make them exactly how I've seen them with my minds' eye. The process of making a doll doesn't happen with empty mental space, this is where inner conversation happen and I dare to call them conversations with dolls. I don't literally hear them talking (I've been asked this, so to be clear...), but that inner conversation happening while I craft helps me to find new perspectives, reminds me of my values, shows me the way, so I dare to say that dolls talk to me, materials reveal secrets and I have a lot of teachers right at my fingers. My only teachers in doll making have been dolls that I make.

Does this make any sense to you or I sound like the lady who has lost her sanity long ago?

Hi! I just joined, and while I figure this out, let me tell you a bit about me.

I'm a maker of dolls inspired by nature, folklore, labyrints of myth, mind and magic. My dolls are mostly witches, and when they leave my home, they often become altar dolls. It's been a weird and interesting journey of doll making for the past 7 years, 600+ dolls now live in homes and collections around the world.

Besides crafting dolls I'm into permaculture, paganism, self-sufficiency, foraging and neverending self-development. I'm a forest dweller, mushroom hunter, food grower and herb lover deep in the countryside in Latvia (North-Eastern Europe). All of that I might occasionally share here. I would love to connect with like-minded people, so, if you're here, say 'hi'! I hope you are somewhere here...

Hi All, welcome to my new Mastadon Page, i will be highlighting me handcrafted creations

I made this outfit a while ago, and it's the same outfit I make for pretty much all my winter clothes just in different colours, but people specifically really seem to like this skirt in particular? I've always found the fabric nice enough and soft but not particularly interesting, but other people have been particularly enthusiastic about this one for some reason.

Blouse and skirt made and patterned by me

Some of my wife's amazing new pieces.
#epoxyresin #crafter

My wife is an #EpoxyResin #Crafter who's been using the medium to express her creativity for maybe about three years now. Her biggest products are chess boards set in wood frames that I help to sand down, while she attaches legs and sometimes strings lights through. How many #creatives are out in the #Fediverse making a decent living in their craft? Sadly I think she'll have to get back into Facebook for her posts and whatnot, she's had a few sales here and there through it, and craft shows aren't always a sure bet. How do you increase your chances of selling your wears? Are craft shows or social media more effective for what you do?

Heyyyy mastodon!

It’s time for a snapshot #introduction of me, and how I'm hoping to contribute to this platform

My name is Cassie and I run a Philadelphia based community craft and art group. The group started 9 years ago on another well known platform and over the years it stopped serving our purposes. My hope is that this space can help connect our local community and inspire others to follow suit.

I prefer she/her and they/them pronouns and I default to using they/them pronouns with new people that don’t specify a preference.

I'm an #artist, #crafter, #organizer, and #designer. In order of most experienced to least, I utilize and teach the following skills: #leatherwork #accessorydesign #handembroidery #chainstitchembroidery #basketweaving #handbuildingclay #bookmaking #printing #surfacedesign #naturaldyeing #felting #spinningyarn #painting #drawing

I like to create, I have a love of aquatic fish, mushrooms, bugs, bones, prismatic colors, texture, line work, anything tufted, and gin is the way to my heart.

I look forward to sharing my creations and offering support with questions about any skillsets that I am able!

After all these years, an #introduction !

I'm Blahmage (like the mage, not the german word for embarrassment haha), and I consider myself a variety artist and crafter - as such you won't find "only one kind or style of art" here. I love to try out new things! But watercolours and sewing are my eternal love. I work mostly traditionally.

I also love FFXIV and chocolate.

This is me.

https://my-place.social/display/e599373b-1367-83c0-e519-3bf821718451

I wasn't to do as much Christmas knitting this year as I have in previous years, but I'm quite pleased with what I did make! The hood I made for my girlfriend
was more complicated than I initially thought it would be, but it was worth it in the end.

@knitting @fiberarts #knitting #crafter #fiberarts