Idiorhythmic
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Tutorial: Sewing Tin Oracle
It seems like there is a form of divination for everything. There are the usual suspects: reading tea leaves (tasseomancy) and Tarot cards (cartomancy), fire gazing (pyromancy) and bird watching (augury). And there are more esoteric divination methods like spatilomancy (reading portents in animal excrement), tyromancy (divination by cheese), and belomancy (prophesying via arrows). Basically,…
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Sew Witchy: Pitching the Book
When I decided to try to find a publisher for my book, Sew Witchy (née Sew Craft) I had a vague idea of what I was doing. A few year prior I had done a round of submissions on a fantasy novel. I knew writing a nonfiction proposal would be a different process, so…
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Burlap Cross Stitched Pumpkin
I’m not ready just yet for fall. We’ve had a wet, hot summer and I’ve enjoyed it, as have the plants in the garden. But even so, I do hear the siren song of pumpkins and soup weather. So I took an afternoon to play around with an idea I’ve had for a while: cross…
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The Witch’s Closet Sketchbook and Test Garments
I’ve been working on all new garments for the fourth book and I’m very pleased with how they are turning out. There is (from top to bottom): The Fairy Witch Gown, The Triangle Dress, The Tiered Skirt, The Rectangular Pinafore (seen here over the Chemise Gown), and a sket for a patchwork skirt. This book…
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Creating Your Own Magickal Correspondences
On October 28, 2020 Sew Witchy was discussed and reviewed by RhomanysRealm on Youtube. Someone in the the comments section asked about the magickal correspondences I gave for the stitches and how someone would go about assigning correspondences to those stitches not covered in the book. This is a topic that I spent a lot…
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Rub on Transfer Candle Holder
This is a quick, little craft that can really elevate your plain glass candle holders. Get a sheet of rub on transfers and a glass and go to town decorating the holder. I got all of mine from the dollar store so this makes for a very cheap craft as well. I don’t know if…
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Cross Stitch: SF Swear Words
I’m a word nerd and a science fiction geek. I also love to swear. Like, really fucking love to curse. My swearing is sometimes a problem (like when my children started dropping f-bombs as toddlers). But mostly swearing offers me a release for frustration. (Also, swearing has its benefits.) Which is why I love…
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Plarn: Its Crafting and Magical Uses
In my book, Sew Witchy, I’ve written on magical correspondences of various fabrics. My focus there was on natural fibers (cotton, linen, wool and silk). Not all crafters and sewists limit themselves to natural materials, though. In fact I’d hazard a guess that very few do. One could, I suppose, use only silk or cotton…
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Flower Crown
It feels, sometimes, like no book is done until it is actually at the printers. February saw me having to go through not only copyedits for The Natural Home Wheel of the Year but having to take extra photos to help the editors understand how some of the crafts come together. The book includes instructions…
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Body of a Goddess
I’ve been quieter than usual on this blog because I’ve been participating in NaNoWriMo this month. Of course because I am me and I can’t do anything the way it is supposed to be done, I’m working on a non-fiction book rather than a novel. It’s a sewing book, which means I’ve been working on…
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