Thursday's Accessory

cinnamon buns.

Maker Faire prep work

 The days are counting down to when I need to pack up the trunks and head to the Hall of Science in Queens on Saturday and Sunday for Maker Faire New York. We'll be in the Bust Craftacular section, Booth 51. It promises to be a splendid Autumn weekend so stop by and say hello!

You can find more info here.

The Plucky Farmerette

The show that I had mentioned last month has ended so I'm pretty tickled to post the shots of the squid I had sent out to Indiana for it. The show was carnival and side show themed so of course this was the first set I made for it:

I was pretty excited about the prospect of making sideshow themed squid and I wanted to make one more. I had recently finished Fruits of Victory and had Farmerettes on the mind. I had never heard of the Woman's Land Army and I highly recommend checking this book out to hear some amazing tales about some amazing women. And since this was a carnival-themed show I was also thinking about the tattoo ladies on the side show circuit. So, put those two together and you get Millie, the tattooed Farmerette.

Millie has spent quite a long time collecting all of her tattoos. She thought it was such a shame to have to hide them due to Victorian sensibilities so she took matters into her own tentacles. You can catch Millie being billed not only has a tattooed lady but as the only tattooed land squid you will see this side of the Mississippi.

I used the same technique for her as I did the sailor squid. I had a lot of fun sketching out agrarian-themed designs but sadly didn't get to use all of them.

And here are some close ups of the tattoos:

The pea pod was my favorite so I decided to make a little headband  to complete the squid.

The inside of the pod contains 4 peas but sadly I couldn't get them to show up very well in the photos. I would really love to do more tattooed squid but I'll probably have to wait until after the holiday rush. I already have some ideas for other themes to embroider on tentacles.

Tadly Series 2

The Tadly revamp series is up and for sale! And if you need a refresher on Tadly you can go here to check out Tadly and Abigail's story and adventures thus far.

Apple Tadly

Cat Tadly

In celebration of the 2 new Tadly designs I just finished we decided to revamp the old designs. This revamp was partly inspired by the discovery that a certain someone in the household destroyed an entire army surplus duffle bag of Tadly plush. I thought it would be safe under the bed since it did not look like there was enough room anywhere under there for Ico to reach it. I was wrong. So very, very wrong.

Scott and I sat down to design the new guys and tweak the old patterns. I then took some time to redo the construction of them all and am now hand sewing everything completely. The only thing not sewn on are the glasses which are attached with felt glue. The hand embroidery allowed me to play more with the colors and feel of each design since you can get the thread to pop a lot more on felt than with machine sewing.

Tadly

Abigail and her book.

Russian Dancing Bear Tadly

Abigail and her letter.

Stump Tadly

Purple Tadly.

Thursday's Accessory

Aprons

very soon

This week will be pretty rad if you like tentacles on other animals and objects.

Thursday's Accessory

cheeseburger.

 

Fun story: We were at a craft show where an animal rights group had a table that was showing videos of slaughterhouses on a loop all day. One of them stopped by my booth. She picked up the squid who was holding the tray of burgers and asked if these were veggie burgers. I said no because squid are carnivores. She left in disgust.