Pre-Vet Creative Thread

[PippyPony]

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I taught myself how to hand sew using YouTube and now I'm browsing on Spoonflower for the first time since acquiring this new power and HELP

 

[SportPonies]

since Pippy has kindly reminded me this thread exists...

I'll share the avatars I've been making for everyone. Decided to pride-ify a group of avatars and it's been fun. 🙂 There are more but I can only attach so many in one post lol

*In case it needs to be said, flag choices are not indicative of the user's actual identity, and most/many were randomized choice on my part just to support the LGBT community 🙂

 

[cdo96]

since Pippy has kindly reminded me this thread exists...

I'll share the avatars I've been making for everyone. Decided to pride-ify a group of avatars and it's been fun. 🙂 There are more but I can only attach so many in one post lol

*In case it needs to be said, flag choices are not indicative of the user's actual identity, and most/many were randomized choice on my part just to support the LGBT community 🙂
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I want a pride avatar!

 

[SportPonies]

I want a pride avatar!

send me an avatar to pride up!

 

[vetmedhead]

since Pippy has kindly reminded me this thread exists...

I'll share the avatars I've been making for everyone. Decided to pride-ify a group of avatars and it's been fun. 🙂 There are more but I can only attach so many in one post lol

*In case it needs to be said, flag choices are not indicative of the user's actual identity, and most/many were randomized choice on my part just to support the LGBT community 🙂
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Ha! These are cute. Might send you one later to pridify

 

[SkiOtter]

I taught myself how to hand sew using YouTube and now I'm browsing on Spoonflower for the first time since acquiring this new power and HELP

Yesssssssssss I love spoonflower. It’s where I got a lot of my mask fabrics including the two different opossum ones I made for @SportPonies and I

 

[PippyPony]

Yesssssssssss I love spoonflower. It’s where I got a lot of my mask fabrics including the two different opossum ones I made for @SportPonies and I

Which one do you like best for things like masks and scrub caps? There's the cotton poplin and then the signature cotton. Which one is nicer?

 

[genny]

Today's project and helper.

 

[SkiOtter]

Which one do you like best for things like masks and scrub caps? There's the cotton poplin and then the signature cotton. Which one is nicer?

I’ve only gotten the signature cotton and it seems fine?😂 made both caps and masks out of it. Definitely need to preshrink if you get the signature cotton though
I’d say it’s pretty equivalent to like regular quilting fabric on the bolts at Joann’s.
they do sell tester swatches of whatever fabric so you could buy one of each and see which you preferred? I think they’re like $5 which s u c k s tho.

also I was able to get one mask and ponytail cap set (of the patterns I used at least) out of a fat quarter, with some finagling. Some patterns have bigger images than others (like one of my opossums) so that one would have been much more of a struggle, but I had gotten a whole yard for that since I was making two of each.

 

[alissa14]

I taught myself how to hand sew using YouTube and now I'm browsing on Spoonflower for the first time since acquiring this new power and HELP

What is spoonflower??

 

[PippyPony]

What is spoonflower??

A delightful money suck, based on my limited experience

 

[PippyPony]

But really it's a site where you can order custom printed fabric in basically any pattern you can imagine

 

[SkiOtter]

A delightful money suck, based on my limited experience

Can confirm

 

[supershorty]

Always feels like such a slog at the end, but it's so satisfying when it's done!

 

[supershorty]

Every time I finish a project and go to select a new one from my hoard STASH, I'm reminded of just how overboard I went with buying projects when I was stuck at home... 😬

 

[JaynaAli]

Every time I finish a project and go to select a new one from my hoard STASH, I'm reminded of just how overboard I went with buying projects when I was stuck at home... 😬

I’m moving soon and the amount of hobby supplies I have is astounding. Like, I don’t know how I had it all in the area it was in in my current apartment. And packing has also really highlighted how much extra leather I have laying around…I need to stop buying it just because it’s on sale/a good deal and start actually using more of it. But my new house has an entire room to dedicate to my leathercraft hobby so now I can really go crazy haha.

 

[supershorty]

Been holding off on posting this because I sent it to an SDNer and didn’t want to spoil it, but it’s been at its destination for a while now and I don’t think she looks at this thread anyway, so here’s my latest!

Hopefully the frame got through shipping okay, shipping glass made me nervous and the UPS store assured me they’d pack it well and with lots of bubble wrap, but…

 

[supershorty]

@_rae_

 

[_rae_]

Yay! What hobbies do people have? I have a whole degree in music and I play trumpet and piano. I also knit and can never finish anything. I think I have five things cast on right now?

 

[PrincessButterCup]

I read smutty romance novels, write, take Chinese lessons, and I'm trying to learn to sew. I've been stalled out on a baby blanket for a year now and at this rate the kid will be in elementary school before I'm done

 

[supershorty]

I currently have 2 cross stitches in progress, I just finished a crochet project that I'll post in here eventually and will start another one soon, and a diamond art that I haven't touched in months because I've been too busy with the fabric crafts.

 

[supershorty]

I'm looking at my album of completed projects on my phone and realizing how many things I've made for SDN people lol

 

[JaynaAli]

I still do occasional leathercrafting. Belts, bags, dog collars, etc.

My current creative outlet is designing a custom house, bahaha. So many decisions to make. So many hours browsing the internet for ideas.

My other less creative hobbies are mostly dog sports, but I also like to bake. I like tor was but have been in a book slump for months. I can crochet and have very rudimentary sewing skills but haven’t make anything like that in years now.

 

[supershorty]

Spoiler: This was for WildZoo

Spoiler: This was for bluestoat

Spoiler: This was for cubsrule4ever

Spoiler: This was for SARdoghandler

Spoiler: These were for dyachei

My big Last of Us cross stitch I'm working on is for Zenge.

 

[_rae_]

You're so talented!

 

[supershorty]

You're so talented!

That's very kind, but really what I do is just pick crafts where all I need to be able to do is count

 

[_rae_]

I was teaching my friend how to knit and I was like "are you confident you can count? Are you ready to find out the answer to that question is actually no?"

My current project, fingerless mitts. The spouse had some they adored and I've been wanting to try some. I also have a sweater, a blanket, and a singular sock cast on but non of them spark joy right now

 

[apoptosis09]

Oh I'm excited this thread got revived!

Most of my hobbies are more active/outdoors, but my partner got me into quilting a couple years ago, and here are a couple things I've made (without her having to take over or coach over my shoulder 🤣)!

I made this one as a Christmas gift (Not for the cat, contrary to her belief)

And this one I'm making for myself as a got-into-vet-school gift; it's a pretty simple t- shirt quilt, but made from shirts I've collected from the schools I've attended over the past decade (and a couple I bought for tOSU since i haven't started yet lol). the pattern is simple but the scale is challenging my will to live 😅

 

[_rae_]

Oh I'm excited this thread got revived!

Most of my hobbies are more active/outdoors, but my partner got me into quilting a couple years ago, and here are a couple things I've made (without her having to take over or coach over my shoulder 🤣)!

I made this one as a Christmas gift (Not for the cat, contrary to her belief)
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And this one I'm making for myself as a got-into-vet-school gift; it's a pretty simple t- shirt quilt, but made from shirts I've collected from the schools I've attended over the past decade (and a couple I bought for tOSU since i haven't started yet lol). the pattern is simple but the scale is challenging my will to live 😅
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THE QUILTED KITTY BUTTHOLE I CANT

 

[SkiOtter]

THE QUILTED KITTY BUTTHOLE I CANT

SAME. (That was why I laugh reacted, apoptosis)

 

[SkiOtter]

shirts I've collected from the schools I've attended over the past decade

Random, but are those ones that say Weber, Weber State in Ogden, UT? My sister currently lives like 10 minutes from there 😂

 

[apoptosis09]

Random, but are those ones that say Weber, Weber State in Ogden, UT? My sister currently lives like 10 minutes from there 😂

Yep! I did my B.S. in zoology there c/o 2019 🙂 I hope your sister likes the area! Northern UT is pretty nice. If it hadn't started getting so gd expensive I might have tried to stay lol

 

[SkiOtter]

Yep! I did my B.S. in zoology there c/o 2019 🙂 I hope your sister likes the area! Northern UT is pretty nice. If it hadn't started getting so gd expensive I might have tried to stay lol

She def does love it! She lives riiiight near a trailhead up the mountain (literally a couple blocks from her house)

 

[apoptosis09]

She def does love it! She lives riiiight near a trailhead up the mountain (literally a couple blocks from her house)

I love that for her ❤️ since moving to the East, the thing I miss the most is feeling like the mountains are right in my back yard anywhere in the city. The Appalachian mountains hills don't quite hit the same 😅 The greenery is nice though.

 

[battie]

The Appalachian mountains hills don't quite hit the same

As a Coloradoan, I feel this statement in my soul

 

[max_wildlife]

Yay! What hobbies do people have? I have a whole degree in music and I play trumpet and piano. I also knit and can never finish anything. I think I have five things cast on right now?

oooh piano and trumpet is a fun combo! i play guitar 🙂 i took piano as a kid, but am super out of practice at this point

i also skateboard, play hockey, and draw, mostly in ink. i’m terrible at sitting still 😅

 

[WildZoo]

Wow I did not realize how extremely old this thread was got some pre-vet Dubz in the early pages.

I'm still a fiction writer but mostly express that through WW these days, I haven't touched my novel or short stories in years...maybe one day.

My most consistent creative pursuit currently is crochet though I have dabbled in knitting, embroidery, cross stitch, diamond art, and paint by numbers. Don't ask me how many active projects I have.

Here are a couple most recent completed ones and a work in progress:

 

[JaynaAli]

That's cute! I've been working on an amigurumi cow amd a blanket for my vet school bestie for months now and both projects have stalled. I have been lacking motivation.

Reviewing this thread, I would like to update you all and let you know that seven years and three interstate moves later, said amigurumi cow’s head, body, and one leg are still sitting unfinished in my craft supply cabinet.

Also, my leatherwork has definitely improved over the past five years.

 

[supershorty]

Reviewing this thread, I would like to update you all and let you know that seven years and three interstate moves later, said amigurumi cow’s head, body, and one leg are still sitting unfinished in my craft supply cabinet.

Also, my leatherwork has definitely improved over the past five years.

What happened with the blanket?

 

[JaynaAli]

What happened with the blanket?

It was completed and gifted…there’s a later post from my mid thread with that blanket. Her second kid she has since had didn’t ever get a blanket though. They still actually use the blanket.

Here’s pics of a few things I HAVE actually completed as gifts. The halter was donated to a therapeutic riding center as a fundraiser and sold for $100!

 

[supershorty]

It was completed and gifted…there’s a later post from my mid thread with that blanket. Her second kid she has since had didn’t ever get a blanket though. They still actually use the blanket.

Here’s pics of a few things I HAVE actually completed as gifts. The halter was donated to a therapeutic riding center as a fundraiser and sold for $100!
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Wow, these are stunning.

@Truenamer does a lot of leatherwork too.

 

[JaynaAli]

Wow, these are stunning.

Thanks. My nephew who is seven asked me to make him a leather jacket last week. I told him that was pretty hard and would be expensive, and he told me I already had leather (not the right kind) and zippers (a 7” zipper for a makeup bag), and he knew I could. While I’m flattered, I told him we may have to wait until he’s more of his grown up size before we did that. Because no way in heck am I making a jacket for a seven year old who will outgrow it in one season.

 

[battie]

My nephew who is seven asked me to make him a leather jacket last week

The confidence of children between the ages of 3 and 10 is astounding

 

[JaynaAli]

The confidence of children between the ages of 3 and 10 is astounding

He also told me that I’ve made shoes and belts and those are clothes, and a jacket is just clothes too. So it should be easy. I see his logic, but it’s still a no, haha.

 

[battie]

He also told me that I’ve made shoes and belts and those are clothes, and a jacket is just clothes too. So it should be easy. I see his logic, but it’s still a no, haha.

Husband and I will discuss if Toddler Bats used toddler logic when he says something and whether or not the toddler logic is sound. Tracking the logic is honestly pretty fun; then we get to explain why the toddler logic is sound but actually is inaccurate 🤣

 

[supershorty]

Me: okay I NEED to go to bed earlier tonight, I've been so tired every morning

Also me: time to stay up and crochet a puffin