I Just Had A Discussion With My Friend About Fanfiction And How We Tend To Assume That Women Are The

Chapter: 1/1

Words: 2168

Language: English

Fandom: Transformers: EarthSpark

Rating: General

Warnings: No Archive Warning Apply

Characters: Bumblebee (Transformers: EarthSpark), Nightshade (Transformers: EarthSpark), Twitch (Transformers: EarthSpark), Thrash (Transformers: EarthSpark), Mo (Transformers: EarthSpark), Robby (Transformers: EarthSpark), Jawbreaker (Transformers: EarthSpark), Hashtag (Transformers: EarthSpark)

I have recently received another ask about my canvas pulling and since I've been thinking about making a serious tutorial for a while now, I took the opportunity to take some pics and vids while finishing the tree. Do please enjoy :3

1. Why pulling out canvas at all?

Primarily, this is a fantastic technique to apply cross stitch patterns directly to the item you want OR to make patches from old jeans, like this one:

With small patterns I usually don't bother to sew the canvas prior to embroidering, like with the pupper above. In case of the bigger patterns, I usually sew it lightly on the edges just to keep the canvas in one place. The more stretchy the material type is, the more important it's going to be to keep it in place.

2. Why not use a soluble canvas?

I'm sure you can and that they'll be as successful as the regular one 😁 However, as I mentioned in my previous posts here and here, I prefer to err on the side of cheaper, hence the tutorial.

3. Okay. I'm convinced - I even have a pattern embroidered on! What's next?

With small patterns (like the doggo earlier) it's going to be pretty easy. You just pull the threads one by one - preferably starting on the thinnest part of the pattern - and you may not even need the pliers. The fun (?) is with the large pieces, because the canvas has on average quite fragile threads and they like to break. Note - the canvas I'm using and I suppose most of the existing canvas types, will have four threads per one embroidery row. It's usually easier to pull one first and then the other three, bit that may vary when, for example, you managed to pierce the thread during stitching phase earlier 😉

If you were already careful during the stitching, you paid extra attention to embroider EXACTLY between the canvas threads and avoid piercing them at all. There are two benefits to that being extra careful: one, it's easier to pull it out later; two, the stitching gains an extra precision to it (and it looks great!). I recently discover that the round tip needle is making it much easier and if you're interested, there's a separate post about it as well!

On to the process! You can see from the pictures how I started with cutting out a piece of canvas that I can later reuse for something small (recycling is my hobby 🤷🏻‍♀️). I also pulled loose threads from around the tree:

Next part was to clean up the trunk and the grass on the right:

I then cut off the excess to avoid the threads tangling and slowly moved to the sides of the leaves on right and left:

You'll notice that the last photo has the thread pulled halfway through the pattern. That's because on this stage it's usually impossible to simply pull the thread out - even with the pliers it is just going to break off. I use a needle to pluck it from between the embroidery like this:

If you're more of the visual learner, I made this vid that I hope explains the process in more detail. You'll notice that I'm using my fingers and not the pliers here, because it's faster than to switch between tools.

And finally, when you're left with single direction threads like these, it's just a matter of pulling them out one by one.

And that's it! The final product looks clean and neat, AND you will notice that without the canvas beneath it's also getting a bit of volume that looks cool (and helps even out small mistakes you may have made along the way).

Thanks for reading this far! Let me know if there's something else I forgot to explain 😊

As of now, my works will be available on AO3 and SquidgeWorld.

Since SquidgeWorld is less known, I let the works be open to all.

Me: this apparently will be a short fic

Also me, an hour later: apparently not

Ok, I think that for Rediscovery I’ll make the actual chapters as finished, and add it to a series

My stupid ass forgetting that you can send links through twitch to say when you're streaming

This may sound mean, but...

If you send me an ask containing links to Good Omens fan fiction you think I should read, I'll delete it. Do it again and I'll (regretfully) block you. This is a general blanket sort of thing -- I don't want to read it, legally I can't read it, no I won't make it into the next series, and, no matter how pure your motives, it's crossing a line.

Chapter: 1/1

Series: Part 1 of In Purgatory's Shadow and By Inferno's Light

Words: 748

Language: English

Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationship: Garashir

Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Enabran Tain (mentionned), Worf (short apparition)

Additional Tags: Dissociation, Enabran death, Episode: s05e14 In Purgatory's Shadow, they're still pining            

I did a artfol! There's nothing on it for now because of the lag, but I'll add some of the stuff I have on my phone later. The username is the same as always; lokisbur.

Since it's juste one pic at the time it makes a great portfolio for lone illustration or else so I'll use it as such.

What saddens me is that it's only for visual arts, so my writings do not enter that category and won't be on there.

masterpost of my favorite CSP brushes 🦖🦖 links below:

Jiwa pen

KaOs Brush

Obongbong’s Pen

Mameo Ink

Artemus Pencil

Wiggle Brush