sinituulia

sinituulia, 21 hours ago to FiberArts

I also made this dress I never wore into a skirt I might sometimes wear. And from a loosely fitting skirt to a snugly fitting wrap skirt, too!
The hem is asymmetrical, voluminous and has square handkerchief edges and weird bits that give it lots of movement.
Here, a clip it's too dark to see much of!

#Sewing #Refashioning

A short clip of Sini doing a spin while wearing a black and white loose sleeveless blouse and an absurdly wide hemmed and voluminous black skirt. During the spin it flares out enough to touch the furniture of the room she's in, and after the spin she lifts the hem up and wraps it around herself like a shawl, revealing a brown skirt beneath. It has roughly the volume of a full circle skirt and then some. She does a series of little hops, going on another revolution, giving a fey little smile.

sinituulia, 1 day ago to random

Hey. Esteemed masculine internet stranger. Apropos of nothing:

Put on makeup sometimes, or ask somebody to put it on you! There are high chances it will make you feel great and/or make you look rad, beautiful or well rested! It's great, if you want to!

sinituulia, 2 days ago to random

I have washed, shortened and put up four curtains, vacuumed, cleaned a window and tidied up a bunch of random shit. I feel like I deserve a treat but am not in possession of any and cannot justify the purchase of some pretty plates and bowls just because I want a treat! Fuck!

sinituulia, 2 days ago to random

Oh! Just remembered the dream I had.

Great strides had been made in perfecting plastic, oil and toxic waste recycling. A machine had been created! All you had to do was input whatever into a large hopper, no sorting required. Solids, liquids. The end product out the other end was stable carbon, water and trace amounts of minerals. That is to say: Turtles. Just hordes and hordes of turtles, alive and well, in every species, hurtling out of a hopper! 🐢

Environmental experts felt conflicted.

sinituulia, 2 days ago to random

I have, as on many mornings, woken up first to a number of cat crimes. Somebody trying to get a crisp packet out of the trash. Experimentally nibbling a light switch. Trying to drop my glasses to the floor.
And then, once they figure out I'm half awake, two or more of the boys come to wake me up being so incredibly sweet. Gently licking my head, giving each other headbutt hugs while lounging on me, just generally being very cute.
I think the bastards know I'll forgive almost anything they do 😶

sinituulia, 3 days ago to random

Reminded of this feature of Roman architecture, and 1700s European milk parlour or cheese house architecture that I vaguely recall and am too tired to currently re-look into: The Roman villas would have an open air room inside the walls of the house, shaded by overhanging roofs, and there would also be pools of water. The combination of circulation, shade and water evaporation would keep it one of the coolest rooms in the building.
(Vague recollections, please link a good article if handy!)

sinituulia, 4 days ago to random

The conflicting desires to wear something very comfortable versus feeling good and confident because you look sharp

sinituulia, 4 days ago to Cats

In further cat news: When Pörri sleeps with his eyes closed, his facial structure makes him look like he's smiling.

#Cats

sinituulia, 5 days ago to random

I don't want to brag too much, just to show how nice it is when there's a lot of trees... But yeah, look at how fucking nice it is when your most city centre is just absolutely covered in trees instead of parking lots and suburbs!

These are all from within a 2km radius of the absolute midpoint of the city, an old but moderately large one in the Nordics.

Another calm and lovely photo. A pedestrian and bike path travelling through a copse of trees, more resembling a forest than anything. There is a mix of conifers and leafy trees, the sunlight once again beautifully sifted by all kinds of natural life. A scattering of pine needles and leaves have accrued along the sides of the asphalt path or street: It is wide enough to accommodate one and a half cars, or maybe four cyclists side by side. It looks to be early autumn.
A landscape photo shot from a high rise, overlooking an area of urban habitation. There are dozens of squat and somewhat cosy looking high rises with square windows and little balconies, each of the scale of maybe 70 apartments per building, so not immense but not tiny. Some 30 to 40% of the land area of the photo is taken up by rich green tree tops. Just nothing but trees visually, though they do hide smaller buildings! There is a lone water tower in the distance and the sky is overtaken by a summer storm rolling in, one side of the sky sunny and dappled with fluffy clouds, a bank of ocean blue overtaking the rest.

sinituulia, 8 days ago to accessibility

On the matter of accessibility and excellent closed captions:
Watching the end credits of an episode of Candela Obscura (chapter three, episode one) and the captions were excellent, as always. I can hear but they help me spot things I might miss, and to concentrate, but I also just appreciate them as an art form. But. Guess how many closed captions editors Critical Role hired for this?
FIVE. FIVE EDITORS. And that's how you do it. With intention!

#ClosedCaptions #Accessibility

sinituulia, 8 days ago to random

I've been slowly working on the cat quilt. Top-stitching one little bit or two, pulling the threads to the reverse and finishing them. Put on the binding but didn't take the basting threads off yet. This variegated thread I had perfectly matches! Mom has seen it and likes how it looks and it looks less trash to me, so that's good. Still very hard to get decent photos of.

#Quilting #Patchwork

A photo centred on one of the large cat prints. It is a kitten done in a sort of stylised grid of triangles, with a black tail and white chest. The large block has been top stitched with similar random triangles made by crossing the entire block, hitting an edge, and turning at an angle. This, also, takes roughly about forever. Looks pretty nice though, even unironed.
Close-up of the binding and border going between the block groups. It is blue, with top stitching done in a blue thread that travels between teal, dark blue, gray blue and electric blue. There is both straight stitch and zigzag. It looks pretty nice, but is also covered in errant cat hairs. There is a hand sewn line of tacking thread along it.

sinituulia, 10 days ago to random

A few years back I did pet portraits for my followers in the other place, both for some change because I was broke and for free when I felt like drawing something cute but had no ideas and liked to make people happy. Some of them turned out quite nice!

#TraditionalArt #MixedMedia

A close up portrait of the face of a calico or tortoiseshell cat with its head resting on a fluffy blanket. Done with ink, line art and graphic markers, there is a significant amount of detail in the very middle of the face, with just suggestions of shape and colour in the rest. Pastels in hue, the cat has deep green eyes. A very pretty cat, also dated July on 2020.
An ink painting with some gouache details, of two napping cat with their heads together. They look like siblings, with white bellies and faces and black or grey backs, noses and ears. It's quite cute. Dated later in July of 2020.

sinituulia, 11 days ago to Cats

Some sweet boys from the archives, an older photo from when I had dedicated pillows on my desk for the boys. Musti on the left, Pörri on the right. No thoughts head empty the both of them.

#Cats

sinituulia, 11 days ago to random

I cannot emphasise enough how nice it is to just shave all your hair off. With a hair trimmer sans a guard you don't even have to see what you're doing and it takes maybe less than 10 minutes to shave it all off. And then you don't have to worry about hair for a month! It's just not among the things you have to deal with!