Handy Dandy Handycrafty Thread

So my first major craft medium was crochet - I'd make tiny things out of embroidery floss and a lace hook, and make wire-able 3D shapes with larger projects made from yarn.

Now my main medium is needle felting. Pipecleaners and sometimes stiffer wires are used to help shape limbs, but they're not really poseable. They're sculptures, and because the overall texture is quite same-y and matte, I like to add beads, fabric, and occasionally slightly more out-there stuff if I think it's going to give the final model the right "look". Examples of the latter include airdrying sculpting PVC (mostly used in Japan to make miniature deserts) or stone chips. Generally I try to stay on-model, to try and "learn" a sense of curves and outlines and shape.

So, here's one massive photo containing all the stuff that I really should get round to finishing at some point:



As you can see, it's all Pokemon. Several items are a couple limbs short of being a full set (Nindorina, Crustle). Others are stalled until I stop feeling sorry for my inability to sew complicated shapes out of Actual Fabric (Huntail, Leavanny, Meganium). Japanese crepe fabric (chirimen) is my favourite to work with aesthetically, even if it frays like a motherfucker at the scales I prefer to work at - my most ambitious (completed) project with it to date is this Hawlucha:





Other junk I haven't posted here for whatever reason:



Huntail and a Nidorina. It was originally meant to be a Nidoran F, at a scale matching my Scolipede evolutionary line, but it worked out waay too big for a Nidoran and needle felt actually has limits as to how much you can compress it. I still want to make a Nidoran and Nidoqueen all to scale, at, uh, some point. Along with the Tropius, Sceptile evolutionary tree, Larvesta, probably bead-mascot'd Sigilyph, Bayleef, Druddigon, Sylveon, Sewaddle+Swadloon, Yanmega, Flygon, realistic models of various irl bugs, birds, fish maybe, idk,,,,

I probably have other things that I haven't shown anyone! Because I completely forgot I had that Espurr in the works until I fossicked around in one of my boxes looking for the Meganium base. These kind of things tend to be "out of sight out of mind", if they're not within my eyeshot I easily forget about 'em. Also I've given some of my stuff away so photographing those in a group shot'd be a challenge and a half. If someone's paying my flights though, I'll happily give it a shot.

Other things I could show off if people egg me on instead of doing the Right Thing and yelling at me to finish X already: My collection of eyes-to-be beads and buttons; the technicolor shitshow of wool roving I've hoarded, my fabric cache, my collection of stamps.....