Tag: slug draft stopper

Live tooting the banana slug draft stopper process

Low pain window, let’s goooooo! Banana slug draft stopper!

This project is proceeding at a slug pace / in crip time.

Photo of a wooden table on which is a ratty piece of mustard yellow fabric and a pattern made from 6 pieces of printer paper taped together. In the background are shelves with jars, books, plants, etc

Found the perfect fabric that had previously been designated absolute trash and put in the scrap box. There doesn’t seem to be a slug emoji so I am using this one to express the same emotions 🤘

Close photo of my hand holding a piece of mustard yellow, woolly knit fabric with holes that have been sewn around in black thread to stop them from running. I have pale skin and a black manicure with gold sparkles chosen by a child

Printed the “pattern” which turned out to be a series of jpeg photos of hand-drawn shapes with no scale or pagination. Not so much an indie sewing pattern as a lo-fi punk sewing pattern. Worth it. They are very good slug shapes. Behold! Slug shapes!

Photo of a wooden table on which are laid out flat pieces of mustard yellow fabric: 3 long slug body shapes, a horned slug face piece, and a folded half-circular slug mantle

Lol just realized there is a slug easter egg in the background of some of those photos

Photo of part of a bookshelf, where "Field Guide to the Slug" is facing out, partly blocked by an empty labware bottle

Fittingly the best thread match is this fucked up spool that I think got stepped on.

Close photo of four different beige and tan threads trailing across a piece of mustard yellow fabric

Close photo of my hand holding a spool that is normal at the bottom but devolves into a loose mass of threads at the top

Thread chaos intensifies…

Photo of the top of a sewing machine in the process of loading thread onto a bobbin. The bobbin is fine but the spool of thread has collapsed and has a fountain of knotted loops at the top

Photo of the smashed pieces of a plastic spool

This slug mouth concept is: gathers. I love it.

Close photo of a sewing project made from a medium weight woolly knit fabric. One seam is gathered. Various tentacles hang limply

New record at thread chicken 😳

Photo of the top of a sewing machine, showing a tiny tail of tan thread sticking out from that first doohickey that the thread goes around

Inside-out slug kind of has moth vibes.

Photo of an inside-out slug sewing project with all the raw seams visible. The face has two longer tentacles sticking up like antennae and two smaller tentacles poking down like mouth parts. The body wiggles limply into the background

This tentacle turning technique was inspired by emergency surgery portrayals on The Pitt lol. Put your finger in as a guide, so you know where to press your knitting needle / reusable straw / medical instrument from the inside

Photo of my index finger up to the hilt in a hole IN A SEWING PROJECT

Suddenly it is golden hour, to welcome the pre-viscerated slug. Hello friend.

Photo of a soft slug with no stuffing on a wooden table. It is mustard yellow with four eye stalks and a mantle. The end of the tail is open, waiting for stuffing

At this point I’m just enjoying taking a tour of all my worst craft supplies, but they do keep working perfectly.

This is a washed-but-not-that-clean sheep fleece that I think a friend found in the shed when his collective house was disbanding, and it’s going to make perfect slug stuffing.

Photo of a large blue mesh drawstring bag full of lumpy tufts of white sheep fleece. In the background is a black and white striped rug and the feet of some wood furniture

The peril of crafting on the heating pad instead of an appropriate work surface 🤷

Photo of a half-stuffed banana slug approximately 1 meter long, climbing off my lap onto the back of the couch. My feet are up on the couch and I'm wearing black and white lounge pants

Photo of my ankles sitting cross-legged on the couch. Everything is covered in specks of dried grass

Final reveal: Banana slug! Draft stopper!

Seasonal ambition re: slug draft stopper

We had one cool day and I am having my traditional seasonal ambition to make a draft-stopper for the one drafty door.

I have already made unprecedented progress by choosing a design and even buying a pattern, because how could I resist this perfect soft sculpture of a slug by Clare James?

Photo of a large greige corduroy slug perched on the back of a couch against an off-white wall. The slug has a realistic shape, with a mantle and four eye stalks. The couch is covered in a green patchwork quilt and cushions with earth-toned prints. There is an abstract blue and orange artwork on the wall above.

Inspired as always by my friends’ projects, in this case a pal who made this sardine as a draft-stopper for her mom who loves tinned fish.

Now I am torn between using generally sluggy fabric I already have, or buying something to make a perfect banana slug 🍌