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. Keeper of the Machine Embroiderers & Plushie Maker feeds (ping me to be added!)

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Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 4d

The kawaii mothman design is out! The plushies themselves are not listed yet, but that is forthcoming. ko-fi.com/post/Kawaii-...

The cover image for the Kawaii Mothman, with both a classic mothman and a non-man moth variant.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 7d

Fat quarter collecting is different from fabric collecting, in addition to fabric collecting being a different hobby from sewing. Anyway this was the last one they had.

A fat quarter with faux NASA patches: meatball, Apollo 11, couple of shuttle related ones.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 9d

He's pulling a caboose as well, of course.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 9d

If your mothman has well-defined abs he's probably dehydrated, get him some nectar right away.

A tiny plush mothman, with machine embroidered pecs and abs.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 10d

Got out the moth-moth to see how the wings work on the chibi mothman and somehow I am making another moth?

A deflated realistic-ish deaths head hawk moth plush WIP, next to a yardstick showing its 20" wingspan.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 23d

Product photography is my passion. 🙃

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.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 26d

Never thought I'd be making in-the-hoop clothing on an embroidery machine but here we are. 😉

A preview image from the instruction pages for the clothes for the embroidery machine goblins.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· 27d

I'm back! (Unscheduled break because one of the kids was in the hospital)

Most of the pieces of three plush goblins on a lap desk for assembly.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 6

and, to be clear, it's a regular problem for him. (The goblins, and their clothes, are all made entirely in-the-hoop on an embroidery machine. Most get embroidered hearts or belly buttons, others get embroidery on the other side of their body.)

The back side of the orange-haired goblin who, again, is dummy thicc.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 6

Bliz has just discovered that even an oversized loincloth offers no protection from people who want to pinch your bottom.

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.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 6

Grugbobs already had pants but he is pretty happy with the shirt that he... somehow makes look like an aloha shirt?

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.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 6

Gave Klurk this vest and he immediately tried to shake me down for protection money.

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.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 6

Been making some clothes for the goblins and Ople is very happy with her little dress although it's a little clingier than she expected. She's gonna bash a bigger snake next time.

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."

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 6

Not all will get pants.

One of the plush goblins from the back. Which he got. A veritable dump truck.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 5

Found all the parts to the small size test goblin! The bodies will have three variants (so far): heart, navel, and this

The front of a small stuffed goblin, this one in pale olive fleece.

The back of the goblin, showing its machine embroidered posterior.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 5

I have to stitch out ten goblins for this design, what was I thinking. At least I don't have to finish the stuffing/assembly for all of them, just make sure the face stitching looks good and put together a representative sample for the listing. (And one-piece Baalk doesn't even count!)

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.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 3

The angles are very confusing up here. Here is a slightly better picture of that area, which may explain it better (once you can see them). The slanted ceiling is the underside of the roof (the wall that meets it is a knee wall: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee_wall) so the sun is like six inches away.

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).

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 3

Olivia's doing the same thing: "oh it's very hot, I must go into the finished attic and lie right beneath the barely-insulated roof and then melt because I am fluffy and it is hot" (low-light pic because all the blinds and curtains are drawn in a vain attempt to minimize solar heating)

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.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 3

Yep! Mom thought dragons were demonic but all my surviving relatives like mine. (But Mom thought everything was demonic, including the robots on the Mr. Roboto album because they had pointed ears. When I confusedly showed her the album cover she said it didn't matter, still demonic for Reasons.)

The Styx Mr. Roboto robot masks, which have round dials for ears.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jul 3

One of us!

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

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 30

The good news: I managed to publish a third design to Ko-Fi/Patreon this month (available for non-member purchase): silverseams.com/shop/product... The bad news: after taking the cover picture I realized the "sand" was upside down, you can't see the pink thread, I didn't trim some jump stitches...

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.

Closeup of the picture, showing some un-trimmed jump stitches, the print screen of the "sand" (scrapbooking paper), and a big hair or thread across a plush charm.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 25

Bet THAT'S not true.

Back of a JoAnn receipt reading "returns with a smile are super easy! You can return JOANN purchases any time with no hassle."

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 25

see a crab, post a crab (or three)

My in-the-hoop machine embroidery kawaii crab plush design, in three variations.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 21

Not sure the "inchie" size is going to work, but the next larger size will be fine. Should probably re-run the pink one with better colors (there's a third color on there, honest) when I run the stuffed charm version.

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.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 19

"Fine, Grugbobs put on loincloth. Human say nothing about color, got it?"

Grugbobs the plush goblin is now wearing a loincloth. It is light pink. Grugbobs have laundry incident, okay?

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 18

TOO DANG MANY STARS (but also, we should add some)

The embroidery machine stitching out fifty stars, with thread tails everywhere that I will have to trim.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 18

Am I as excited about America's 250th as I was about its 200th? No. Am I willing to cede its iconography to the worst people just because they're largely in charge? Also no.

A red pennant garland being stitched with the 13 red and white stripes of the US flag.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 17

Tomorrow is my last day of PT, the machines are back at their usual spots and I am getting back to speed!

A one-piece goblin with a wacky embroidered from.

The same sort of goblin, different expression, but separately sewn parts. This one doesn't have clothes yet.

Ice pop (generic Popsicle) buntings and a clog (generic Croc) bag charm that holds shoe charms (generic jibbitz). Yeah, trademarks are awkward sometimes.

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Jun 14

Haven't had an order for a custom dragon in awhile* but unsurprisingly, it's one of Those Colors. (In part because that's what tends to be pictured in listings, so it *is* a bit self-reinforcing even for non-McCaffrey/Whelan folks.) Choosing an eye color can be a LOT. 😆

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.

The box of beads: forty-five tiny compartments full of two sizes of the little eye beads, in a plethora of colors.

(This is not even all of them.)

Karen at Silver Seams@silverseams· Mar 9

It's going to be a race to see whether my knee gets better before I can organize outside testers (so far, the knee is winning). silverseams.com/contact.html if you're interested!