Hello and welcome to Nerdvana Crafts! Where you can find handmade gifts for the nerds in your life! My name is Sly and I am a neurodivergent fiber artist who crochets amigurumi from a variety of fandoms. Each item is made to order, and may take 2-4 weeks to make and ship. Each item is also made in the presence of a cat so if you have allergies, please message me and I will do everything in my power to prevent kitty contamination. All of my creations are intended as fan art, and because I use a variety of patterns, their sizes will vary as well!
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“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
Apparently, some companies now are labeling mass-produced crochet items with "machine crocheted" to justify selling an entire granny square vest for 14 bucks.
1. Machines cannot crochet.
2. Knitting machines, to my knowledge, cannot make granny squares.
3. Even if there was a machine that could crochet, 14 bucks for an entire fucking vest is still too low to be paying people a livable wage basically anywhere in the world.
4. It takes me, a very fast crocheter, about twenty minutes to make one granny square in a single color with five rows. Multi-color granny squares take more time. I'll say 30 minutes. Next time you see a granny square anything in a big box store, count one row of squares and multiply by 20 (for single color squares) or 30 (multicolor squares). Then consider that it's skilled labor which should have an hourly wage you can live on. Then look at the price tag. This is Victorian piece work poor shit going on.
Still working towards my current goal to help pay for hotel and food. Donations are never necessary but always appreciated 💜
https://ko-fi.com/nerdvanacrafts/goal?g=20
Commission for a friend who sent me a very sultry calendar ;) She's also acquiring some ducks I had made previously but she wanted some cats too!
Less of a shop update and more of a quality of life update. Had this custom etched tip jar made to have at shows with me so even if folks might not be able to afford something in the moment, they can still offer a buck or two in appreciation of my work 💜
*Custom glasswork done by MCEtching, the QR code pictured links to his Ko-Fi page, where he also has a shop of his own. He makes other items besides just jars and glassware (he's been doing jewelry lately), like the lovely worry stone as seen in my hand. 💜
Last shop update, I promise! Since it's Pride month, I do still have some Pride critters available. I am working on more so if you don't see one for you, send me a message! I might be working on it!
Critters are $10 each or $15 for 2 + shipping 💜
Day four of shop updates! Sakura Haruno from Naruto 💖 $45 + shipping
I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.
Day three of shop updates! (I know, I've been busy!)
Final Fantasy 7 girlies: Tifa Lockhart and Aerith Gainsborough! Both are $40 + shipping 💜
More new shop stuff! Mandolorian and baby Grogu in his pram 💜 $20 each + shipping. This is the way, right?
My first art fair is on Sunday and I’m freaking out 🥲
(P.S. pop by if ur in nyc)
End of May Update
Thanks to some generous donations, I've had to update my latest Ko-Fi goal for con funding, and as a bonus, show off what I've been working on now that my spell slots are coming back. https://ko-fi.com/post/End-of-May-Update-J3J7YS0WF
Dropping this here as a new month is upon us. Probably going to let it run until August just to see how much can be raised. The current goal is for some spending money for artist alley stuff at FanEx Chicago in August because ya girl has been in survival mode since January and needs to do something fun for herself. Anything above that goal will be used for other essentials like food, hotel, gas, etc. As always, donations are never necessary but always appreciated <3 <3
Days like today are when I'm really grateful for my cat. Migraines suck no matter how "mild" they might be, and she knew something was wrong. So instead of her usual shenanigans, she curled up by my legs for about an hour while I rested. She wasn't even terribly perturbed by my fidgeting or shifting. These are the moments I'll try to remember when she's being a shithead later.
CATS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸
send me proof you have donated (as of May 7th) to Eman Saads fundraiser for evacuation I'll draw a cat of your choice
Give me a month or two turnaround time depending on the amount of requests I receive!
Examples of my artwork:
Hi friends. Updated the Kofi because i am finally starting to come out of survival mode and need something fun to save for: extra spending money for Fan Expo artist alley goodies. Feels weird to ask, but I appreciate any and all the support I get 💜
https://ko-fi.com/nerdvanacrafts/goal?g=20
Hi, it's me. I've been busy. Socials took a back seat for a bit. Here's what new in the Nerdvana shop! Reblogs welcome!
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won't view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, "hey, humans are making this, maybe don't harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes," it gets shut down under, "uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3"
Even though there's, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
Leaf
Change a single letter and change the word game
I want to play a game with you all.
You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.
Dirt
YO WRITERS
Stop what you’re doing right now and go write 3 sentences of your story.
Every time you see this, write 3 lines.
Reblog so other writers will do the same, let’s finish these damn stories.
The last of the keychains is being completed today! I swears it!
hello tumblr i wanted to share my little crochet things because i crochet a lot now
i genuinely hope that boop day inspires everyone to interact more with other tumblr users. because it’s clearly way more fun this way!! even once the boop button is gone, there’s still asks, tag and ask games, comments, dms, fuck it let’s bring back blog rates i don’t care. part of the reason that tumblr is dying is that its way less social than it used to be. let’s fix that!!
Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen
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Yahaha! He needs to find his friend!
Help! He needs to find his friend!
I finally finished the Woodland Traveler pattern by @i-crochet-things! I learned so much. This is only the second amigurumi I’ve ever finished and the third crochet thing I’ve ever made.
Anyway, his name is Forklift (if you know, you know) and he enjoys piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. He is also OSHA forklift certified.
Y'all, it's been a hecking month. Here's some of what I've been working on (and why I haven't posted as much).
