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I had a really great discussion with my kinusaiga mentor tonight. We are planning my Travis collage v2, with more detail and accurate ratio, plus the fabric choices for my first TARDIS: SPACE TARDIS! I'll do a few different TARDIS iterations in various colourways, including a rainbow. 😍🏳️‍🌈

I have been following IG/ungfio for a while, as I enjoy her art. Last year, they made pieces of frog art adorning a deck of playing cards. I really loved these pieces and bought two decks, one to embroider and the other to own. www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...

When I was looking for a matching red, I was surprised how well this red went with the printed red colour. The whitespace around IG/ungfio's artwork is tricky, but I think these work well. The motif is from Clare Bradshaw's 2026 blackwork stitchalong.

I have been following IG/ungfio for a while, as I enjoy her art. Last year, they made pieces of frog art adorning a deck of playing cards. I really loved these pieces and bought two decks, one to embroider and the other to own. www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...

(Aside: this first card was embroidered with rayon, which I hadn't worked with before. YUCK! This material is beautifully shiny and this looks almost like silver, but it leaves tiny hairs everywhere and frays like mad and I did not enjoy this experience. Yuck. I think I'll stick to cotton and silk.)

I have been following IG/ungfio for a while, as I enjoy her art. Last year, they made pieces of frog art adorning a deck of playing cards. I really loved these pieces and bought two decks, one to embroider and the other to own. www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...

Playing cards are great for embroidery practice. They are small and compact, which means they are low commitment in terms of time. It has the vibe of doodling and I want to be able to spend short bursts of time on embroidery without the pressure of completing a large piece.

I asked Travis if I could use this amazing and inspirational composition as the basis for some kinusaiga works. He kindly allowed me to use it, so I selected fabric and created a template to begin interpreting this piece into kinusaiga. (I am slowly learning to use Concepts for template-making.)

One of the frames I ordered fits the 8x10 piece perfectly! HUZZAH! I don't have to struggle finding the correct frames for 8x10 pieces! This is good, because I plan on doing a number of pieces in 8x10, however, for Travis's piece, I am going to focus on a 6" x 9" base moving forward.

I asked Travis if I could use this amazing and inspirational composition as the basis for some kinusaiga works. He kindly allowed me to use it, so I selected fabric and created a template to begin interpreting this piece into kinusaiga. (I am slowly learning to use Concepts for template-making.)

I have been working with a mentor, Hannah, who taught me via an online kinusaiga class last year. She has provided a lot of useful feedback and options. I am sending her photos of this piece and will discuss next week how to improve it, so v2 will be better. 😉🤞

I asked Travis if I could use this amazing and inspirational composition as the basis for some kinusaiga works. He kindly allowed me to use it, so I selected fabric and created a template to begin interpreting this piece into kinusaiga. (I am slowly learning to use Concepts for template-making.)

I didn't realize how much time I would spend thinking about where to cut the pieces in the fabric pattern. Also, to keep the seigaiha the same orientation. Only after I finished did I decide I would prefer to reverse the gradient, so the lightest pieces would be to the left and not the right.

I asked Travis if I could use this amazing and inspirational composition as the basis for some kinusaiga works. He kindly allowed me to use it, so I selected fabric and created a template to begin interpreting this piece into kinusaiga. (I am slowly learning to use Concepts for template-making.)

Most shadowbox frames come in 8:10 ratio, so I thought maybe this would be close enough. For fabrics, I decided to use many different seigaiha patterns together to form a "gradient" of fabric for the planet. The landscape would use all florals. I managed to find photo of Earth in cloth!

I asked Travis if I could use this amazing and inspirational composition as the basis for some kinusaiga works. He kindly allowed me to use it, so I selected fabric and created a template to begin interpreting this piece into kinusaiga. (I am slowly learning to use Concepts for template-making.)

I have two creative projects currently on board. One is planning on doing a few kinusaiga pieces for the art show at the Gallifrey One convention. Those will be Doctor Who themed. It will also give me the opportunity to develop experience and skill in kinusaiga. bsky.app/profile/sini...