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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Throwback to that time I built a rigid heddle loom. 3D printed with large dowels. The model is (16 inch ridig heddle loom) by ten16 on Thingverse. #loom #weaving #3dprinting

half built 3d printed loom, plastic parts and large wooden dowels

finished loom build with scarf on. and pedal attached

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Throwback to that time I was obsessed with perlers. Oh course I made a pink version. #perler #chocobo

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Still so proud of the Sardine embroidery hoop. My first time 3d modeling a print in place hinge! #3dprinting #sardines

embroidery hoop shaped like a tin of sardines,

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Throw back to that time I was obsessed with stenciling. I made this into a pair of doll stockings. #stencil

airbrushed stencil of red and white stripes, blue with with hearts and green and white stripes stitched together by black lines

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One of the best parts about having a 3D printer is making **~ORGANIZATION~**. #3dprinting #organization

3d printed peg board in blue with various white drawers and hooks

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Throwback to that time I made a colour-change sequin collar. For a men's choir event. #rainbow #tux

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Started a new stitch of the tree trunk friend. I might try a different colourway with this one. Gonna get some red in there. #stitching #embroidery

tree stump shaped embroidery hoop with tree ring fabric. a beetle embroidery is started but only a bit of blue is done so far

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Throw back to that time I made an inserts strip quilt that remains the most touchy feely quilt I've ever made. #quilt #fabric #stimming

strip quilt in golden oranges, yellows, reds.

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mini version of the hoop wall. Done as a backdrop for a video. They were too heavy for the poor corrugated plastic wall so I had to take them down. =D #embroidery #whimsy #stitching

many whimsical embroidery hoops on a blue wall with colourful sprinkle stickers

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New versions of the Moon Cat embroidery hoops. Just smoothed out some things and added grey and Dark Moon Pink. #embroidery #stitching #mooncat

embroidery hoops shaped like cats head silhouettes with a yellow moon on the forehead. in black, white, lavender, purple, grey, and a pink one with an inverted crescent moon in black

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with making cold process soup. This one was lavender scented. #soap #handmade

purple and white swirl soap on a black background

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Did you know that the embroidery hoops are the perfect thickness to use as pin displays?? I'm going to have to do up some of my pins in one. =D #pins #embroidery

fuzzy photo of a blue embroidery hoop with a few upside down pins in it to show the depth relative to the pin backs.

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Shark HOOP do do do do doo doo!! They are a bit stabby if you grab them the wrong way. =D #embroidery #shark #stitching

embroidery hoops that look like sharks, one grey, one light blue and one in trans flag colours

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Enjoying a bit of summer. We bought an attachment for the Kitchenaid that makes shaved ice!! #bestdessert #summer #cutesocks

blurry pic of a brown deck with a cup of shaved ice and strawberry syrup in focus at the front,

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New hoop up! The toilet hoop. I struggled with the decision of it it should have just a lid, or a lid and a seat. In the end I had to make it accurate but so, so complicated. #embroidery #porcelain #stitching

an embroidery hoop shaped like a toilet with a seat that flips up and a lid that flips up! in white

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Throw back to the time I did a cross stitch panel for a St Jude charity quilt. A modified screenshot of the final scene from the game Celeste. Was so nice to work with all the pink shades. #crossstitch #stitching #celeste

cross stitch of the final scene from the game Celeste. MC(s) on top of the mountain, with sunrise colours behind. and a big red flag

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Designed a new way for the back magnet on the needle minders to exist. Makes it harder to lose it! And its cute. Plus it doesn't hinder the strength of the magnet at all, I made it very very thin where the magnet is. =D #embroidery #needleminder #heart

a blue disc with a pink heart, about 3cm. it is the back magnet for holding a needle minder onto the fabric when stitching

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New hoop! I have wanted to do a sardine tin embroidery hoop since I started making the hoops almost 3 years ago. I am so happy with how the hinged door came out. #embroidery #stitching #sardine

an embroidery hoop shaped like a sardine tin, Grey lid with a yellow circle and three blue fish on it.

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Throwback to that time I was obsessed with making Japanese hair flowers. Made this one for an art trade. I dyed the sheer silk with food colouring since I couldn't find any sheer colours I liked in the shops. =D #hairflower #silk

hair flower with round petals two blue flowers and one pink. blue flowers are dark blue inner and sheer light blue outter, pink is dark pink inner and sheer pink outter

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This hoop is TRASH! Just the prototype but I think it's pretty much ready to go! So many many idea about what I could stitch in this one! #embroidery #trashfriends #stitching

an embroidery hoop that is shaped like a trash can

trash can hoop with the 'lid' off to show how it closes. in grey base and dark grey lid

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with doing blocky embroideries. Used the official silhouette and designed the interior shapes. Jolteon, like a puzzle trying to make it so that each section of stitches is going a different direction from all the others it touches. #embroidery #stitching #poke

the pokemon Jolteon in yellow and gray blocky embroidery

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Disco hoop! I have these square iridescent stickers and one evening I decided they needed to be an embroidery hoop. It is so shiny! I love it, but I don't even know what I'm going to stitch in there. This one won't make it to the shop though, the stickers aren't durable enough. #discoisntdead #s

round curved edge embroidery hoop covered in square iridescent stickers to look like a disco ball

me, 1/8th of the way though sticker-ifying the hoop, regretting all my decisions

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with doing blocky embroideries. Used the official silhouette and designed the interior shapes. Glaceon always felt like I managed to make an ice skating costume for a pokemon. =D #stiching #pokemon

the pokemon Glaceon in blocky blue embroidery.

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with doing blocky embroideries. Used the official silhouette and designed the interior shapes. Someone should stop me every time I decide that a tonne of french knots is what a projects needs. I don't know if this even counts as blocky embroidery anymore. #

embroidery of the pokemon Umbreon with the gold in straight stitch and the grey / black areas in french knots, so many french knots. and little red eyes

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

These took forEVER to stitch. Fake jam jars embroidery! Just some background props for some embroidery hoop shots I'm trying to make look fancy. =D The amount of stitching I did that wont even be visible... but I had to make it go all the way around! The strawberries, cream dollops and bananas o

felt and embroidery jam. two red and pink ones, one lavender with stitched flowers, one blueberry two toned, one orange with stitched orange slices and one brown "hazelnut spread" in from is a small cutting board with felt cut outs of strawberries bananas cream dollops and the hazelnut spread.

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with doing blocky embroideries. Used the official sillouette and designed the interior shapes. Espeon wasn't my most exciting design but they did get a little french knot boop on the head. #embroidery #stitching #eevee

blocky embroidery of the pokemon espeon, various shades of purple in a gradient with a metallic red french knot on the head

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In the works, digital pocket friend hoop! (you know what this is) I will be making the buttons stand out more, they are my favourite part. This will be a cover that snaps on to the embroidery hoop base. #3dprinting #tamagotchi #embroidery

3d printed cover plate that looks like a tamagotchi in purple and yellow

3d printed cover plate that looks like a tamagotchi in purple and yellow, with the two colours as their separate plates before they combine

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with doing blocky embroideries. Used the official silhouette and designed the interior shapes. This was the first one I did and man should I have used interfacing. Or not silk, or both. =D This one was almost 7 years ago though, so I have learned a lot since.

a blocky embroidery of the pokemon Leafeon in greens and yellows and brownd

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sardine hoop! Im very proud of this one. First time modeling a print in place hinge and it worked first try! There is also a bottom hoop part not shown. You'll get to see it in the final photos. #sardines #3dprinting #chicagoscrewsarecool

3dprinted sardine tin lid make from a series of flat pieces hinged together. It is grey and has a large yellow dot in the center with 3 blue fish shapes on it.

3dprinted sardine tin lid make from a series of flat pieces hinged together. this one is rolled up so you can only see the grey under bottom

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It comes in BIG. Bigger printer means slowly but surely all the littles are getting embiggened! Large version of the D20 embroidery hoop. #3dprinter #embroidery #d20

large sized d20 embroidery hoops in red, purple and black

sizes of the d20 hoop cover and inside, 10" cover and 8" inner hoop

disassembled view of the d20 embroidery hoop, cover outer ring, inner ring, back panel

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with doing blocky embroideries. Used the official sillouette and designed the interior shapes. I did the Evee series on silk but I'm not sure Id choose that if I was doing it again. #pokemon #embroidery

an embroidered Vaporeon (pokemon) various blues and yellow fins

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Little stick figure me and angry, angry Luci. =D #doodle

stick figure of lady with pink hair and a tiny angry spitz dog

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This embroidery hoop is TRASH. =D My garbage bag shaped embroidery hoop. Still not sure if I should stitch raccoons in there or apple cores or maybe both! #3dprinting #stitching #embroidery

dounut fabric in black garbage bag shaped embroidery hoop

black garbage bag shaped embroidery hoop, deconstructed to show inner ring and back panel

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Throwback to that time I made a bunch of Fallout props. So, so many props. =D I even made it so you could open the can of beans and I had put a printout of beans in there from the bottom. This was well before 3D printers, I bet people can make even cooler stuff now. #fallout #props #quantumistheb

reproductions of various fallout foods and meds

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One thing I'm not great at is getting around to putting the hex nuts in the hoops. I always end up with a huge pile before I finally get to doing it. #embroidery #3dprinting #procrastination

clear baskets with various embroidery hoops waiting to have a hexnut glued in

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Throwback to the time I was obsessed with printing on fabric and doing tiny cross stitches. It's just so much easier than doing a full coverage piece! #crossstitch #zelda #nothatslink #donthitthechickens

a piece of fabric printed with the zelda games village with cross stitch Link running from cross stitch chickens

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I've been trying to make time to get all the hoops up on the wall. I'm not sure I have enough wall though. Even if I don't hang any extra colour variations of the hoops I have more than 30 designs!! When did that happen??? #embroidery #3dprinting #iwillbuyanythingcakeshaped

The mess of a 'hoop wall' I have to date. only the frying pan and the tree stump hoops ever got hug up

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

One of my first ever needle minders, the game stitching menu! #embroidery #needleminders #stitching

game menu needleminder "Stitch, Loop, WIP, Floss, Frog"

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Throwback to the time each year I make a Mario themed cross stitch. =D #mario #crossstitch

a crossstitched pipe that runs into a mario pipe

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Gumball embroidery hoop! The pom poms look pretty tasty. =D #embroideryhoop #3dprinting #gumballs

pastel pom poms in a gumball shaped embroidery hoop

pastel pom poms in a gumball shaped embroidery hoop that is deconstructed with the back panel and ring popped out

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Another hair flower for the upcoming Moco Made charity auction. I set out planning to use purple and orange, I have no idea how I ended up here. Silk noile is so lovely to work with, I guess I just couldn't resist it. Used the last of my big clear Swarovskis on them. #hairflower #silk #swarovski

Hair flowers in progress, white outer petals with light blue and lavender insides. three flowers ready to be put on a hair pin

Hair flowers in progress, white outer petals with light blue and lavender insides, all lined up as petals

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Maple pride! As a Canadian I fully embrace the maple stereotype, it is delicious! #embroidery #needleminder #maple

a bolttle of maple syrup with a rainbow maple leaf

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Throwback to another cross stitch block I made for a charity quilt. Mega Man! The robot dog is named Hotdog! This made me never want to stitch dark brown ever again. #crossstitch #stitching #megaman

cross stitch piece of mega man and Hotdog the robot dog in the wood stage

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

How many WIPS do y'all have on the go today?? #embroidery #needleminder #WIPS

Haunted by WIPS ghost shaped needle minder, Im just a bunch of WIPS in a trench coat needle minder

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I made a SHAPE! I'm still not great with Blender but I'm moving into more 3d shapes. #3dprinting #raindrop

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The D20 embroidery hoop! I spent a lot of time getting the snap on covers the way I wanted them, but I'm finally happy with it. I added a pic of how they work this time since I forget that its not always obvious from the finished pic. #3dprinting #rpg #d20 #embroidery #stitching

black d20 embroidery hoop with galaxy fabric

d20 shaped embroidery hoops, red, black, purple

d20 embroidery hoop with cover off and sizes, 7" cover on left and 5 1/2" inner hoop on right

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Throwback to that time I found out caulking comes in cake colours! These are actually postcards with sponges glued on so you can still write on the back. #diy #isitcake

fake chocolate cake pieces on a work desk

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Rainbow Ralphs! Making the chunky colour shapes on these were quite fun. =D #needleminder #stitching

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I remembered that I have gold filament and free will. =D This filament sticks to the plate so bad that I lost the plate though. So, I will have to change brands to make more gold skulls. It's an embroidery hoop! #skullofrahul #3dprinting @embroidery

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