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Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams.bsky.social |
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Open source sewing and machine embroidery
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Stitching got a little messy on the teeny one, but that's okay because I had meant to do the non-floatie version and give it little seed-bead legs so I need to do another anyway.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Also that's Noto Emoji vs. Twemoji flamingo. They're both a little more detail than I like at that size, but I think Twemoji, the one with the white outline, is nicer.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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My previous work area, a rental, had carpet that would swallow up sharp things until you least expected them. I am very happy to have a nice concrete-with-ergo-mats space here, but somehow I can still lose things like this. It's just... gone.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I really should wear shoes in the workroom, because even though my snap presses aren't strictly handheld I have a bad habit of holding them in my hand while sitting at the computer and, well, there's one of these rolling around on the floor somewhere now.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Decided to run the flamingo to show each of the five different carrier designs I generate for emoji now. It's a little hard to tell since it's white-on-white and I nipped the corners of both types, but the tab and feltie on the left is a square while the ones on the right are rounded square.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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( duckduckgo.com?t=ffab&q=kat... )
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I have not messed with a serger much but my experience has been: I never use it because threading is too much work, but then when I do use it I go "I should do this more often, it's totally worth the effort!" I don't do much that calls for it, but this is the year I'm making a Katwise coat, dangit.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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(It's also an adventure because I haven't glued that felt flamingo's legs on. It's all felt so I could probably get away with fabric glue rather than the usual E6000, but I can't find that either.)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Also: I don't actually like pink, how is it I have such an *amazing* range of pink fabrics/vinyls/felts?!
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Karen at Silver Seams
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The flamingos have gone the better part of a year with only having pictures of the plush versions (except for the tab which doesn't come in plush) so I'm rectifying that. But I guess I gotta hang this up which is always an adventure, lighting-wise.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I've broken a *lot* of needles but I have never had one achieve that kind of range!
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Karen at Silver Seams
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A thing I didn't mention yesterday was that sewing that sparkle vinyl resulted in a shattered embroidery needle that I heard bounce off the throat upright (to the right) and ricochet ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE BASEMENT so I guess I need to wear footwear for awhile. (It didn't seem that tough, but...)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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If it's threaded, 99% of the battle is won. 😆
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Karen at Silver Seams
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A smarter person would have: used the 1mm minky for the small one and the 3mm for the large one, and also not cut off the loop on the sparkle one. (I guess I'll glue a bar pin on it, which is another use for the smaller plaques anyway.)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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My samples are not ideal for this but I always drop a freebie when I get new Ko-Fi/Patreon supporters, so I went ahead with it. All these are 4x4 hoop sized, but it includes up to twice that size in plush, flat charm, and bunting styles.
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silverseams.com/shop/downloa...
🧶 #bsnm #PlushArt
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I get caught up in posting on so dang many platforms sometimes I forget to blog about things until much later. Replies/likes on this post appear on the blog entry.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Legit just went "Oh, 'Pacemakers,' never heard of that brand of magnetic hoop" and then oh magnetic hoop right, right "🚫 pacemakers" 🤦
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Oh, I remembered what it is: "dangit you guys changed the export option and now the command line doesn't work, where are the docs?" (the answer is "you're writing them, Karen" so really, should I even open an issue? 😩)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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(90% of the issues are things that are answered elsewhere in the issues, but Ink/Stitch's audience is very non-technical so they don't know how to search and so those of us who do, just answer-and-close, answer-and-close. I don't have a Mac but I know if it's an M1, the answer is "install Rosetta"!)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I went to open an Ink/Stitch issue and thought "first I should answer all the open issues I can" and after answering a dozen or so I forgot my own issue so... I guess that's one more I don't have to answer!
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Karen at Silver Seams
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@shatteredneedle.bsky.social You've seen this, right? www.lego.com/en-us/produc...
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Karen at Silver Seams
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What *is* going on with GMaps these days? (It's gotta involve "AI" doesn't it...) bsky.app/profile/game...
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Neal - Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Mental Health Birds are now available! VerdantSculpts.com
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I am the maker of: www.32auctions.com/organization...
and my website is silverseams.com - these days I mostly make designs for other people to use on their embroidery machines, but sometimes I sell finished product too.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I'm not naming names but SOMEONE wants my attention.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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(also if you search "Zelda" and "BOTW" on silverseams.com those downloads are still buried in the blog archives somewhere)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I have made Zelda stuff, including fauxmiibo things for kid/spouse, and yet. 🤷 Kid once asked why I didn't play Minecraft, I said "Someone has to cook for you and Dad" and, welp, later I did start playing Minecraft and some days we grabbed fast food. I know my weaknesses.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I feel like I need to jump on this bandwagon. I HAVE NEVER EVEN PLAYED THIS GAME
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Everybody mocked JoAnn for putting their Halloween stuff out a few weeks ago but folks, it is the Fourth of July and if you check Michael's they are *frantically* trying to catch up, "More collections coming soon!!!1!!" and item listings live but with "coming soon" because they're not stocked yet.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Or I can do it as a fourth(!) hooping. (Well, third: dolphin doesn't have embroidery on the belly piece like the shark mouth. Still. Three hoopings is too many!)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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After this, of course, I remembered that the problem I was having with the dolphin was: horizontal vs. vertical tail. I really don't want to add another hooping, but I refuse to make an inaccurate tail. The tail can be horizontal (c.f. the Chibi Orca) IF it's in line with the body, losing the curve.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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The problem with the original shark is I had to put it on the acrylic riser so you could properly see its anxious little face.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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The problem with the original shark is I had to put it on the acrylic riser so you could properly see its anxious little face.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I am supposed to be preparing the workroom for the new embroidery-machine stand so I can take how-to videos but yesterday's dolphin adventure got me thinking about the Blue Shark design ( silverseams.com/shop/downloa... ) and how I wanted a dolphin but with some curve to it. Anyway, a (shark) test:
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Pretty sure fancier machines just do it faster and/or in larger hoops.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Happy Independence Day!
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Happy Independence Day only to Embroidery Library, who every year sends out a holiday 60% off everything sale email, followed minutes later by a birthday 50% off coupon. (Bonus kid says that means I get 110% off which... probably not.)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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No embroidery update today: it's my birthday. Replies/likes on this post appear on the blog entry.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Same, but for Wales (well, and not the Soviet bit either).
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Karen C
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Sold out! Should I make more y/n? www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Karen at Silver Seams
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100% misplaced the first tiny strawberry feltie (I blame a cat), so I made two more. They're a little different: 😄😉
Aaaanyway, it's done and listed: silverseams.com/shop/downloa...
#bsnm 🧶
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Today in "Karen's camera can't focus on sparkle vinyl." 🍓
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Karen at Silver Seams
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In addition to the design, I'm going to start stocking physical products again as well so if you don't have an embroidery machine I will have you covered, hopefully by the end of the month.
#bsnm 🧶 #PlushArt
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Karen at Silver Seams
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In case you couldn't get your head around the scale, the biggest (so far) frog is about 6" long. The teeniest one is a little over an inch and a half (I should do that size in short-pile minky).
The design published last night: silverseams.com/shop/downloa... (Patreon shop is for non-members too!)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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So, I love my embroidery machine but there is no world in which I want it to sound like a phone tree. ddinstagram.com/p/C85EYMmCWb3/
(it is probably an unbelievable feature for blind users and I support it existing, I'm just gonna turn it off for myself as fast as I can)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Of course, when I say "social media" I mean Meta's crap, not Bluesky. Replies/likes on this post appear on the blog entry.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I am pretty sure sometimes they freak out because light comes through the bucket enough to hit their roots. You would think a dark bucket would get hot on those roots and be just as bad, and yet.
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Frogpile! (I was going to list this design but spouse brought me a margarita and I do not drink very often/much so I probably should not even be posting. Tomorrow!)
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Karen at Silver Seams
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Not sure what it's trying to tell me here. 😆
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Karen at Silver Seams
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I start my product instructions by making a copy of an existing one in the new product's directory, and it regularly does a "Broken links have been fixed" thing for the new relative path - but this time for whatever reason, it didn't find the existing images correctly with amusing results.
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