I am taking a greenwood bowl carving class through the American Swedish Institute. What kind of bowl is it…? … … … A CHIP bowl! #greenwood #carving #birch #carved #bowl

I'm working on a new wave of cross-stitch blanks. New designs, more wood choices - should have a whole slew of them ready for the Wahpeton Carving Weekend! #woodcarving #crossstitch #wood

Letter openers / corner turners, with hand-done pyrography on one side to mimic kolrosing. Acacia (top two) and Birch (bottom). 7.25” / 183cm long. #woodworking #handmade #kolrosing

Bespoke cribbage board. MN silhouette in Walnut wood, with turquoise inlay on most of the major rivers / lakes. 14" tall. Hand drilled, hand routed. Trying to make pretty things to fight the ugliness in the world. Stay strong, Minnesota. #woodworking #cribbage #minnesota #wood #handmade

A story in 2 pictures. The elegant side profile of our distinguished calico-tabby… The disgruntled look of “why are you holding that thing so close to my face?”

Everything shoved over onto the finished-floor section. It’s coming along! #diy #epoxyfloor #sheshed

More weaving! Shop still in progress - I’ll get back to woodworking soon, I promise. The purple band is a “nonsense” band. No specific pattern other than when you move “forwards” you produce an M, and “backwards” makes a W. The change between gives you 2-3 dots, depending when you switch.

Ok seriously… what’s the deal with cats and fabric? I break out a new project and suddenly I have helpers. #sewingcats #cats #sewing

Shop isn’t quite set up yet (still ripping up glued-down carpet), but made enough workspace to finish an iPad rack for a Science class. Thank you to the @rockler.bsky.social guys at Burnsville for assisting with my new router. It works great! #woodworking #science #router #diy

A brief Side Quest brought to you by “I need trim for my garb so I can go in appropriate gear to sell my woodworking… it’s expensive… I’m sure I can make it myself…” Yes yes, I spent about 30 years avoiding tablet weaving. Now look what happened. I blame my Mom & friend Mary Liz. #cardweaving

New She-Shed… but need to scrape (yes scrape - I cannot pull) the old carpet up because they over-glued it. I pull, and it just starts unraveling. My biceps & triceps are going to be *amazing* when it’s done!

The Shop / She-Shed is CLOSED. It's all boxed up for our move. This summer will be spent getting our new house in order, so there will be NO TIME for outside projects. Hopefully come Fall/Winter things will calm down enough, but at the moment all commissions are closed.

Hahaha! It's done! Pokemon starter trio cross-stitched onto a wooden pokeball. Pokeball is made from bloodwood, ebony, and maple. Example piece for my class in May. #nintendostitch #pokemon #woodworking #crossstitch

Entelodauntlets FTW!

My daughter had a few boxes of Girl Scout cookies left to sell, so we made up some "dragon-snails". People could adopt-a-snail (for the price of 3x boxes of cookies), and get 3x FREE boxes of cookies! Such a deal! One (rear) had garnet cabochon eyes, and the other (front) had tigerseye cab eyes.

Sorry it’s been quiet. Getting ready to move states, buying / selling houses, while preparing to teach another class AND find a new job! It’s been busy. Here’s an in-progress piece I’m working on over lunch hours. #pokemon #nintendostitch #crossstitch

One case of cookies. Slightly fuzzy… check for mold!

Weather was perfect for some frost rime on leaf litter. #frost #ice #winter

Took a class on making antler handles for knife blanks. Here’s my Mora “companion” in a tine from a whitetail shed, with a little ebony bolster (added at home when I glued everything up). Had extra time, so made an antler tine needle as well!

Hi! I'm a palaeontologist who has just joined Bluesky. My lab recently published a paper on gorgonopsian osteohistology. doi.org/10.1111/joa....

End of Day 2 kuksa carving class. My cup is looking like a big chonky borb - good so far! A lot of refining to go. Inside is slightly fluted.

Taking a kuksa cup class at the Milan, MN Village Arts School. 3-day class taught by Alex Yerks.

Naalbinding needles - curved in two dimensions to fit flush alongside your thumb. Top Koa, middle Ebony, bottom Olivewood + turquoise

I finished my #Tempestry! First time tapestry weaving, made a temperature chart for 2024 - each color denotes a 5-degree interval. January on the left, December on the right. Next time I'll leave myself extra room; had to finish with tweezers, and my knots / tassel were pretty sad. #weaving #loom

Happy #FossilFriday ! Another "Deciphering the Dinomummy" video for your viewing pleasure - this time covering the artwork done by @himmapaan.bsky.social and the traits requested, based off of the fossil features. youtu.be/338pfPjiXnc?... #paleontology #dinosaur #dinomummy #paleo

They're almost all done! Hand-stitched felt plesiosaur jingle ornaments for my lab volunteers :D As they come in, they can pick a color. One left giddy, because hers was PURPLE and JINGLED! Only a few more to stitch. #felt #ornaments #plesiosaur #volunteersROCK

Thank you @himmapaan.bsky.social - it arrived safely! I can’t wait to frame this cutie. Support REAL artists, not AI garbage!

The fire fox, "tulikettu", is from Finnish mythology. Its fur is pitch black, but it shines in the right lighting conditions and sparks in mysterious light when you touch it. Those sparks would fly to the sky and create the northern lights when its tail or sides hit the snow or branches as it ran.

The hearts for my winners are drying, and will be mailed out this week. I have some finished pieces that are ready for last-minute gifts. First up: weaving shuttles in different wood species! Why stick with the boring shuttles your loom came with when you can have a bougie one? #woodworking #loom

*rubs temples* My daily productivity was derailed by a lack of wire brads. The supply has been restocked. Tomorrow will be better. Threw "ratatouille" out the door in favor of Hobbit Hotdish... which was kid approved, as she's now curled in a blanket groaning from eating too much. Oh look - wine.

All individual hex-shelves now assembled! Next step: make a paper pattern on how I want the shelves to wrap around existing pictures on the wall. All of these won't be used - but I figured might as well make ALL the wood into hexes, rather than be a couple short. #woodworking #woodwork

A little over 48 hours left! I’m giving away one heart each on Bluesky, FB, Mastodon, and Insta, if you want more chances.

🕊️ Animal #487 🐯 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟧🟨🟨🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa Ok - this is a fun brain exercise.

Pocket-hug give away: You don't need to follow me, you don't need to share, simply comment on this post with a number (1-100). Winner will be chosen on Dec. 1st by dice roll (Noon CST), and can dictate what type of heart they want (within reason). All these here are examples only. #woodworking

Quote Repost with your skull art! I should really do more skull art. I enjoy it so much - and these are all a few years old at least. #woodworking #woodcarving #scrollsaw

Hex-shelves day 2. Realizing that I was overexcited about working on these, and didn't do what I should have. I cut, sanded...then did NOT seal outer edges before gluing. This batch (walnut & oak) are sealed on every surface except my glue-joint. #woodworking

The start of some hex-shelving. I wanted smaller hexes for my various miniatures, so each segment is 3.5” / 9cm. 1/2” / 12mm thick. Inside diameter will be 6.25” / 15.7cm. This first one is out of red birch. #woodworking

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One lunch-hour pine cone, out of basswood. Started on Tuesday during the carving club Whittle-in, and finished today. I can see how these could get addictive. #woodcarving #carving #wood #pinecone

Please share your blue art! 💙 I had to dig a little bit - blue isn't a color I can find easily in wood - but turquoise is! Left "ammonite" is hickory & Burmese sal, right is birch & Sindora burl - both with turquoise inlay. #woodcarving #woodworking #woodwork #fossil #paleontology

One more finished #crossstitch of a #bulbasaur and more pieces drilled, sealed, and ready to go. Another #carving club asked me to teach the non-carving class for their show… so looks like more hole drilling is in my future! I swear, I’ll get back to my regularly scheduled programming eventually!

What to do while sick, and your brain is trying to squeeze out your sinuses? Finish up a cross-stitch. Bulbasaur on walnut. Back isn't as pretty as I'd like (waste of floss), but it's glued now and no one will EVER see it again!

For my SIL, for her kids. All natural wood colors, no dyes - pernumbuco, yellowheart, yew, buckeye burl, canary.

I have the best fuzzy nurses when sick. Clockwise from top right: Tassut, Corax, Halva, and Mandu. #cats #cat #sickday

Hey new followers! Just curious - what random stuff am I doing that you found interesting? Paleontology? Woodworking? Cross-stitch? Princess Mononoke mask for art tax.

Finished installing a temporary fossil exhibit at the Minot (ND) Library. Life on Land and in Water, plus Tools of the Trade. @ndgspaleo.bsky.social #paleontology #fossil #dinosaur #prehistory

Four finished cross-stitched patterns on wood. #NoCNC #woodworking #crossstitch #totoro #skull #Mario #Zelda

My sea monster “wino dino” all painted up! He’s delightfully derpy. #woodcarving #wood #carving #woodworking #seamonster #dinosaur

Art train! Chugga chugga… All aboard!

If you see this post a dino! A little bit of everything this time around. #art #dinosaur #paleontology #woodcarving