Creative

I am also currently engrossed in cross stitching! Got a page finish on this full coverage project a few days ago, I've been on with this for...er.. about a year and a half I think?... and I'm just coming up on 25% complete 😅 You can't really make out much here because I've been stuck on beige island for the last however long, but you can see the full image on the pattern page: Autumn Stories.

As well as that I've been very slowly knitting away at the sleeve on a jumper that this is apparently the best pic I can find of. You get the general idea. This one is probably getting packed away through because we're going on a cruise at the start of August and I need to make some non-Wintery stuff asap. Pattern is Justyna Jumper.

And last but not least someone over on Mastodon sewed a cool skirt and enabled me with the shop link, so now I own not only a new skirt pattern but one for a bralette to go with it too. Planning to get both of those out of this quilt cover that I picked up from a charity shop for 50p! It's got big leaves on it and it screams "flouncing around on a cruise ship". Shop link for the easily enabled.

I have 3 cross stitch projects I’m working on right now.

This first one is actually finished, but I need to get around to washing and framing it. It was a Christmas present for my father, so hopefully I can get it done soon 😅 It’s of Zion National Park which is in Utah, and is one of his favorites. The pattern is by Awesome Pattern Studio

This next one is a silly one that I started last pride month and has been sitting at about 80% done for a year, so I intend to finish this pride month - the bi pride opossum. Just need to finish the foliage. The pattern is by Studio Ansitru

Finally my monster WIP, the 2021 stitchalong from Modern Folk Embroidery. Hoping to get this one done within this year. Since it’s only 2 colors it actually works up pretty quickly. Pattern is by Modern Folk Embroidery

Those are all of my WIPs for now. I have the materials for another project on order and possibly arriving on Friday.

I'm working on my story-driven farming game! The gameplay involves growing a bunch of magical crops to incrementally transform each biome from a "bad" to "good" state. I've had a ton of fun developing it over the last few years! Here's the steam page (if curious): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381040/Cirrus_Business/

Is music allowed here? Or only visual arts?

I'm working on an arrangement of the Super Mario Bros theme song on the guitar. I wanted to try composing, and thought using an existing melody as a base would be easier for a first song.

The lead guitar part is coming along nicely, the rythm guitar part isn't fully formed, and I have no bass or drums yet.

Bit of a different vibe but I've been slowly working on making a game prototype in a new-to-me engine. As you can see, the UI is giving me some trouble!

Not a lot at the moment. I'm helping my son make a plaster diarama of the Lost Woods from Tears of the Kingdom, painting Star Wars miniatures with a friend who is getting into the Legion tabletop game, and building a Gunpla that I repainted to look like Samus' Varia Suit from Metroid Dread. Also hoping to find time to jump back into teaching myself Blender after a 3 month break and probably losing 90% of what I've learned.

I'm working on a motion comic! I'm trying to convert a comic that I drew a few years ago into a video format. I've never done this before, so we'll see how it goes.

I'm still quilting up the scraps for my bellbottoms and I have a corset I'm still stitching some binding onto but I have to finish my crafty garden book by next month so that takes priority 🥲

I'm working on painting up some things for Oathsworn (boardgame). I'm painting a huge monster, and I just finished painting some terrain pieces that my partner 3d printed, like a ruined building and some walls overgrown with moss. Haven't had much time for painting lately so I'm happy to make some progress again. (now I just gotta figure out how to add pictures to a post!)

Edit: I think this should work?

A novella/novellete: https://beehaw.org/post/458403

The pitch is essentially: Breaking Bad + Magipunk Fantasy.

I've been practicing watercolor painting as a new hobby. I'm honestly surprised at how things are turning out as someone who really doesn't do many creative things. It's been fun. I'm mainly painting landscapes and simpler scenes at the moment.

Knitting a cabled turtleneck sweater called “Orosi” by Carol Feller. I’m fussing over the armsceye and short rows for the bust dart, so I’ve set it aside for a while until I get it figured out. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/orosi

I'm currently sewing a skirt. I have 2 panels hemmed and ready, but I still need to cut and hem the two side panels. I picked out this lovely woven cotton fabric, and I'm very excited to see it come together.

For the last month or two I've been building a set of cabinets/room dividers to hide my TV in (There's a TV lift under there!). Construction has gone well, and I got a lot of the doors built this week (hooray! I was pretty nervous about them). But now I'm starting to butt my head up against learning how to stain wood, which I have very little exposure to... so... that's been challenging. Hopefully I'll figure something out... it's turns out maple is pretty tough to stain.

Been taking a break on painting lately so I can Finnish up my indie surf album. I’m almost done. But now I’m focusing on studying more web art history so I have a more clear vision of where I want to take my work when I’m ready.

I am building a budgeting webapp akin to Ynab and LunchMoney, mostly to learn Microsoft Blazor. If I can get something functional out of it, all the better.

I am working on making a shader for a concrete barrier with moss growing on it for blender. I can do it in other software owned by Adobe, but I'd like to figure out how to do it using blender's shader nodes.

I tried my hand at linoleum etching this week. Almost done with my first attempt and I really like it

Working on a dungeon for my Pathfinder 1e game. Hidden in the sewers underneath the city is an underground complex of insane Derro (little halfling sized purple-skinned insane humanoids) who have been capturing people for their experiments. I have some fun encounters planned, and I intend to make them really weird and alien. Derro alchemists with sentient tumors, psychic malformed derro babies held aloft in golden cages and used as living war banners, mutated and mind controlled humans from the city above used as muscle and servants, fungus monsters, suicide-bomber homonculi, etc etc. I plan for the big reveal to be that a character they met previously (an elven alchemist who runs a free clinic in the city) to be the mastermind behind the derro lair. He's been buying slaves and experimenting on them for centuries (a la Nazi experiments during ww2) to further his medical knowledge which he uses to help people (and eventually cure death but thats mostly for him). He brought the Derro from the deep underground closer to the surface so he could guide their research towards something more productive (the Derros racial insanity makes it difficult for them to make any lasting progress). Oh also the Derro use their alchemical knowledge to wipe the memories of the people they experiment on before sending them back to the surface. Who knows how many hidden mutants are running around aboveground, and if the nightmares of the seemingly insane are actually resurfacing memories...

I started sketching and drawing again. I am pleasantly surprised with what I have made. I'm also obsessed with flowers.

Edit: Leaves and I have a love-hate relationship. Let's pretend they're not there.

I made a song on beepbox? It's kinda dungeon synth sounding.

Trying to get my AHK based virtual desktop management setup at work up and running. I have added numpad controls so it feels like the desktops are in a square pattern and it is working fine. Next up is making a small gui manager that pops up where it lets me rename the desktop I am at easily and I can see all the desktops arranged in a grid with their names. GUI is done more or less, now just to add some functionality. Then probably I need to get arrow key switching to work aaaand... I guess that' pretty much all I need mostly.

I'm knitting a sweater! Taking my time with it, trying to get away from throwing myself at huge projects like I tend to do when I crochet.