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...

I decided that it would be easier to get the right shape for the head if I built up the shape of the skull first, so I felted a skull working from multiple deer skull references and attached it to the body. A couple more hours of work resulted in the...

I made resin eyes using a resin casting kit. This actually turned out to be quite tricky. The white pigment used to colour resin is titanium dioxide, which is the same thing that's in sunscreen to reflect UV light. This becomes a problem with UV curi...

I remade the hands in a better colour and slightly better proportioned to the body and added coloured wool on the upper arms.

I blended some wool for the lighter fur on the insides of the legs and the belly.

5 hours, and I managed to colour both legs and add a bit of shading