The downside of a house hinged down the middle instead of with doors on the front is that it doesn't leave a lot of room to add a fireplace and chimney. I decided that the easiest place to add this would be to enlarge one of the windows and build th...

I was scrolling way too late on Instagram last night and happened upon a reel of someone who dedicates December to finishing off works in progress. Her method is to scour the house for all of the unfinished projects and things that need mending and ...

I've admired the aerial view embroidery of Victoria Rose ever since her work first crossed my feed on social media. Along with the beautifully realistic faux pinned insects created in stumpwork embroidery by Megan Zaniewski, it made me want to have ...

The bricks will need another coat of brick red to get a good solid colour, then highlights and shadows to accentuate the contours. As that continues, I also took some time to stain the floorboards inside. These were made from strips of balsa wood cu...

A while ago I got a very simple dollhouse from the local charity shop. It was a thick plywood thing with printed on details that a previous owner had attempted to engrave. I initially thought about finishing the engraving, but the details were quite...

Two booklets are included with the Seed to Cloth kit. The first is Flax and Linen, A Shire Album by Patricia Baines. This describes the flax plant and the various processes involved in turning it into linen cloth with historical photographs and diag...

Not long ago, I got into a conversation on Bluesky with someone who had just discovered that nettles could be used as a source of fibre for making cordage and cloth. I mentioned that I'd heard the processing was very similar to that of flax to turn ...

I shaved down the belly fur and some of the back fur, neatened up the belly fur by lightly reverse needling and filling in any obvious gaps, and started building up the fur on the chest and upper back.

Added long fur to the belly with the intention of shaving it down using a hair trimmer. I'm hoping this results in a more consistent length than using scissors.

Today I added fur to the arms, from the wrists up to the shoulders. Because I can't use a reverse needle to pull fur from inside the sculpture, I had to attach wool in sections and then trim it to the correct length.

After making him a little loincloth so he could go back on Twitch streams, I worked on the longer fur on his sides and back, building up a bit of a mane but leaving it long enough to blend with the fur below the belt of the loincloth and shape it bet...

Because our deer god is strongly associated with masculine energy and fertility, he's got stag-parts. I had to take a little break from streaming the progress so I could felt and add those parts and add more realistic leg fur, then make him a little ...

I added some colour to the face and started shaping the nose pad.

I added some musculature to the face, and carefully felted the eyelids around the eyes.

A bit more work on the colours up the back and around the neck, and the eyes are now in the skull. I call this his "Skeksis era" because of how strongly he resembles the monsters from The Dark Crystal film.Jokes aside, I'm really happy with how reali...