Karen at Silver Seams

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I use embroidery machines to do "impossible" 3d things, with more detail and precision than is otherwise practical. https://silverseams.com/ Keeper of the Machine Embroiderers & Plushie Maker feeds (ping me to be added!)

A fat quarter with faux NASA patches: meatball, Apollo 11, couple of shuttle related ones.
The plush mothman's generous backside.
A tiny plush mothman, with machine embroidered pecs and abs.
A deflated realistic-ish deaths head hawk moth plush WIP, next to a yardstick showing its 20" wingspan.
A group picture of the plush goblins in the light box. Everybody's in frame, didn't catch the edge of the backdrop... but the picture is upside down. At least that's easy to fix.
A preview image from the instruction pages for the clothes for the embroidery machine goblins.
Most of the pieces of three plush goblins on a lap desk for assembly.
The back side of the orange-haired goblin who, again, is dummy thicc.
Another plush goblin, whose orange standing-on-end hair should make him recognizable as the caked-up goblin from before. He's wearing a wolf-fur loincloth and has wide eyes, raised eyebrows and an expression something like the "grimace" emoji but with fangs.
A goblin with a unibrow and a crudely cut black shirt spattered with red that against all odds makes him look like he needs a surfboard.
A plush goblin with an ear-to-ear open-mouthed grin and an eye expression that makes it "evil glee." He's wearing a *very* fluffy black fur vest and brown felt pants.
A little plush goblin (in Shannon Cuddle Minky Opal) in a dress made from iridescent black snake-pattern velvet. It is a bit form-fitting, and Ople's form is kind of "dumpling with legs."
One of the plush goblins from the back. Which he got. A veritable dump truck.
The front of a small stuffed goblin, this one in pale olive fleece.
Five goblins in progress. Two are finished and need clothes, though one (Baalk) has the same mouth as an incomplete one because it needed improved. Three more have been cut and turned, one of which has the head piece stuffed and one ear sewn on.
A cat on top of a cat tree, at the intersection of three walls and a sloped ceiling (or another wall, depending on your viewpoint).
A fluffy cat on a large cat tree platform, melted flat (with one hind leg dripping off the edge). Her ears are slightly airplaned because she knows I am taking her picture.
The Styx Mr. Roboto robot masks, which have round dials for ears.
Screenshot of RAPIDPUNCHES added to the Machine Embroiders list which is used (along with keywords) to make the Machine Embroidery Feed. There's another one for plushie makers but they're not on there... YET
Five different in-the-hoop machine embroidery variations on a Croc-style clog design: plush charms, faux-leather charms, and one with the ability to insert Jibbitz style shoe charms.
Back of a JoAnn receipt reading "returns with a smile are super easy! You can return JOANN purchases any time with no hassle."
My in-the-hoop machine embroidery kawaii crab plush design, in three variations.
A couple of clogs (Croc style) in upholstery-vinyl bunting form. One of them has holes which are covered by the Jibbitz-style charms in them. They're accompanied by a 1/4-scale version of each of them in orange, which is hard to make out.
Grugbobs the plush goblin is now wearing a loincloth. It is light pink. Grugbobs have laundry incident, okay?
The embroidery machine stitching out fifty stars, with thread tails everywhere that I will have to trim.
A red pennant garland being stitched with the 13 red and white stripes of the US flag.
A one-piece goblin with a wacky embroidered from.
Seven pairs of tiny diamond-shaped (rounded parallelogram, not brilliant-cut) glass beads, mostly in shades of blue or green, on the rust-colored minky the dragon will be made from.
Another preview of designs, this time Sesame Street characters.
Four different pocket monster rounds, in a variety of formats (including snap tabs and bracelet links).
A diagram of how to assemble a necklace but they've used an isolated image of a hand showing a small capped tube, with a water droplet in midair. E6000 will ooze but not drip, and again the cap is on!
One of the big flat Harbor Freight/Stanley/Artbin type totes, like a tackle box with little removable bins.
Eight trays full of glass beads and cabochon eyes for art doll dragon making.
A fifteen compartment tray with mostly tiny (5mm) glass "talon" beads. Two colors are full to the top.
Another tray of glass and plastic eye cabochons.
Two more organizer trays filled with eye beads, claw beads, and gotten beads for dragon making.
A bead organizer with 7-10 grams of beads (sometimes upwards of 50, or 25 dragons) in each of about forty colors).
Machine-embroidered sentiment: "that moral arc's not gonna bend itself."
Embroidery software preview of an "ice scraper" design.
Five days of traffic in a bar chart with a very tall center finger. I mean bar.
The fluffy yeti with three friends: a smaller, shorter-haired one with a darker face, a coaster-type version in upholstery vinyl, and a teeny vinyl one that will become a pin.
A fluffy little kawaii yeti. It's so fluffy it's practically a snowball.
The twelve-days graphic now has all but one square filled in, this one with a heart-shaped gem design which is a VERY intense pink in the picture, less so in real life.
Electric meter
Ten of the twelve machine embroidery designs in the twelve days of Christmas project so far: a wide variety of plush and coaster and useful and decorative designs.
Three 3.5" diskettes (plus one quarter-size one) that, on closer inspection, have been made out of marine vinyl with an embroidery machine. Do not put them in a drive (although they would fit perfectly).
A machine-embroidered coaster in the form of a brilliant-cut gem diagram, accompanied by a keychain fob with a smaller version of the gem... but the vinyl is green sparkle, and the thread is also green, so it just looks like a round green blob. Whoops.
A tiny plush yeti keychain charm, hanging on a nail on the kneewall of a finished attic. This picture is pulled back further, showing that walls/sloped ceiling are House Flipper Gray, and the lighting is a gooseneck lamp sorta bounced off it, and the top of a La-Z-Boy with a heating pad is visible below it. It's a cozy niche but really not great for photography.
A simple little plush charm of a kawaii sitting polar bear.
A sleeping Christmas dragon, machine embroidered on upholstery vinyl.
A beholder, gelatinous cube, owlbear, and rust monster. They're all kawaii style except the rust monster, who has round black eyes but is otherwise basically the tiny plastic toy that inspired the D&D thing. It probably has too many skinny bits to make a good plush.
Four D&D-themed Christmas ornaments, machine embroidered on various vinyls: a potion bottle labeled "nog," a holly cluster with a red D20 for berry, a D20 ornament/bulb, and a plaque with a kawaii beholder that reads "BEHOLD: I bring you good tidings of great joy."
My most used word, which is... "embroidery." (Followed by "machine" and "design" and "dragon" and basically the stuff I made this account for.)
A machine embroidery preview montage of a Nerd Christmas set: a beholder saying"Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy," a D20 Christmas ornament, holly with a D20 berry, and a potion bottle with interchangeable tags "nog," "cheer," and "elf magic."
Samples of a peppermint machine embroidery design (all the coaster version), with four Christmas sentiments and one monogram.
Thread twisted into a near-knot around the upper guide of an embroidery machine.
Three "bag" charms: the previously-pictured black "Trashy" one, a red fluffy "Santa Stop Here" one with Christmas-ornament beads, and a standard money-bag emoji one in tan.
A big tackle box of plastic beads, dumped on a rug. The ground is very far away because my recent surgery means my knee doesn't bend much.
Three packs of gemduo beads: topaz marea (the wrong one, I have to look up the tea colored ones I got before), opaque chocolate, sapphire heliotrope (which needs better lighting), ruby, chrysolite golden, and mint.
A embroidered charm (without the connecting hardware to put it on a keychain yet) of a black trash bag that reads "TRASHY."