Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ducks did that with a mouse in their feed once and unlike chickens, they can't really peck to kill it. Last I saw, one had it in her bill and the others were trying to yank it away while it shrieked, and then they went around the back of the garage. No idea how it ended. 😬 000
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@joshuajfriedman.com It seems to be possible for bad actors to impersonate small accounts, even ones with domain verification, with complete impunity: they don't have enough followers to generate enough reports to cause their problem to bubble up in the moderation system. 100
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you thought the goblins had some terrifying grins...patreon.comWhat even is time? | Karen at Silver SeamsAs you may have guessed, I looked at September's days-of-the-month when I said I would drop the design on Friday, because I thought the fift 020
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026... which is your favorite eye combo to go with the mouth dubbed "Teeth Teeth Teeth"? (Bearing in mind that the pupils' size/position is variable, so if you prefer the exact eye expression from a different mouth, you can specify that too.) 001
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is a long-standing tradition of mine to change course for the monthly design at the very end of the previous month. Especially when there's only 30 days in said previous month. But despite all the combinations, I only need to test four faces to get all the components. So I have a question:ko-fi.comPumpkins againSilver Seams published a post on Ko-fi 120
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026(I have actually never had the motor burn up so not sure if I got lucky or, more likely, it's because I am 99.9% ITH these days so mostly use prewound ) 010
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I gave up and bought one of those cheap bobbin winders because even buying a replacement every time the motor burns up is worth the time because I have two machines that will *never* not do that. One would do it while I was watching while somehow appearing to wind just fine. HOW 110
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 25/10/2024It's decorative gourd season. silverseams.com/shop/downloa... #bsnm #MachineEmbroidery 052
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren C @silver.phoenyx.net · 21/09/2026I remembered I stitched out another slug when I made Alexander Mason, so I cut it out and stuffed it. Is there a reason for the shape, and for the background? Yeah. 🧶 153
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Alexander* is yours for the low, low price of sponsoring four matches between a scientist and a classroom full of kids. * and the satisfaction of having facilitated four matches. Also, four different matches, not the same classroom four times. Unless you want? Sarah could probably arrange it. 🤷silverseams.comAlexander Mason, Slug | Silver SeamsAlexander Mason: a slug plushie, made with squishy foiled plush leopard fabric. 001
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not all of my in-the-hoop designs have this kind of size range but this is the comparison between the 8x14" hoop version and the 4x4" hoop version. (Also yes the leopard slug will be available in the shop shortly, and I guess I should get the tiny(ish) banana in there too. Both are fundraisers.) 0124
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I gave her a name because usually my shop listings are "[color] [size] dragon" and I do not remember what this fabric is named (I could dig through the inventory spreadsheet but the random name generator was more fun). You cannot buy her but it is possible to acquire ownership nonetheless.silverseams.comMagnolia McGee, Slug | Silver SeamsMagnolia McGee: a slug "plushie," made with iridescent dancewear fabric. 131
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is a banana-free version of the Banana Slug design: silverseams.com/shop/product... I discuss interlining too-thin-for-plushies dancewear fabric in the instructions, and that's what I've done here.silverseams.comBanana Slug Design | Silver SeamsA design to make slug plushies in the hoop of an embroidery machine. 173
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren C @silver.phoenyx.net · 16/09/2026Hope my neighbors are entertained by their Ring footage of my holding a slug photoshoot on my stoop. 22111
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Update! I think Spandex World has the same stuff. I'd be more sure if they also had the other colors (silver and cyan).spandexworld.comAnimal Print Hologram (Black/Black)Black holographic animal skin pattern on black nylon spandex. 110
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Okay actually bluemoonfabrics.com/products/lum... is cephalopod fabric but, uh, $150/meter I should probably at least have a pattern drafted and tested before I buy any (almost 80" wide though, I admit I expected it to be much narrower) ... Oh wait, it is just lit, not animated. WELL IN THAT CASEbluemoonfabrics.comLuminous Fiber Optic Fabric | Blue Moon FabricsIntroducing our Luminous Fiber Optic Fabric! A high-tech woven textile with integrated optical fibers that create an all-over illuminated glow. Control the colors and lighting effects using the includ... 130
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh no I made the mistake of looking at Blue Moon "real quick" and I have found cuttlefish fabric bluemoonfabrics.com/products/tie... 150
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026(although if anybody has it Blue Moon will)bluemoonfabrics.comBlue Moon Fabrics - Fashion Starts Here!Specializing in Stretch Sequin, Spandex and Fashion-Forward Textiles, Blue Moon Fabrics has the material you need to bring your Activewear, Swimwear, Dance Wear, Costuming and Couture designs to life. 210
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For those who've bought the design, (1) thank you and (2) in case you wondered what the slug in the instruction pictures looked like when it's turned and stuffed, here a preview. 162
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026("premade snails"? I mean, snails is slugs, slugs is snails, and I *will* have both premade snails and slugs, and a DIY snail design (besides the snap tab) but I do not know where my brain was) 110
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Okay, now you can make your own banana slugs! (Assuming you have an embroidery machine. If not, I will have info on more premade snails soon!) silverseams.com/shop/product...silverseams.comBanana Slug Design | Silver SeamsA design to make slug plushies in the hoop of an embroidery machine. 1119
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I lived in the Midwest for the first half century of my life, I don't take my car into *Philly* if I can help it. But we've schlepped flats of untaxed Jersey soda on the subway there, beads in Penn Station can't be much worse. 😆 080
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'm in South Jersey, so couple hours from NYC. Not ideal but I could probably use a kick in the pants to get up there anyway, I don't tourist enough. 280
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren C @silver.phoenyx.net · 30/08/2026Aside from the three or so finished(?) moths in that box, I also collected the various moth bits. Got at least five where I have all the parts (some didn't ever have anything but the wings done because I only needed one of each type). 121
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren C @silver.phoenyx.net · 30/08/2026Dug through the various boxes and baskets where I chuck testers and samples for things that are on-theme for Skype a Scientist, gotta clean these up and take glamour shots and listing text and then WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN AUCTION #invertefest (and some mostly-marine friends with vertebrae) 2142
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren C @silver.phoenyx.net · 29/08/2026I've added it to my StoryGraph page if that's a thing anybody else is on.app.thestorygraph.comSign In | The StoryGraph 011
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I mean I did too, we had phones very much like that, but the swipe thingy was throwing me. I had a literal "stick a card in, pull the ker-chunk lever to stamp the time on it" kind back in the very early 90's, after that I was somehow salaried. 110
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I didn't recognize the time card one because the last one I used was mechanical. 😬 (in hindsight convincing early-career IT folks that they should be salaried was a scam, I am owed a lot of overtime pay) 120
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026(I'm also getting back into listing physical products, before the mountain of samples buries me in a landslide, so if you don't have an embroidery machine just give me a little while.) 000
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I am terrible about promoting but I have a Patreon and Ko-Fi (same content) on which I post at least one in-the-hoop machine embroidery design every month, usually a plush charm. This month: Mothman, spooky eyes, and a snail tab (so far). www.patreon.com/silverseams/... ko-fi.com/post/There-i...patreon.comThere is no slug emoji | Karen at Silver Seams... but that's okay, probably one of the Snail Facts is that slugs are just snails with no (or with internal) shells. (I don't know yet, I h 100
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I occasionally mention it in mine (somehow I forgot with the Mothman, but the purple sample one has both abs and glutes...) but I figure it's a step too complicated for most people, and the ones that want to do them, know how to make it work. 😆 010
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren C @silver.phoenyx.net · 23/08/2026A lighter-yellow, less-ripe banana slug! This one has its sensory tentacles retracted and its optical ones end in glass beads. Like the previous one, it's about 8" long as the crow flies, and it is yours for a shipping label and a donation ($25 for this one) to @skypeascientist.bsky.social. 153
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren C @silver.phoenyx.net · 22/08/2026Critter is a prototype so its eyes are a little derpy but if you send @skypeascientist.bsky.social twenty bucks and you send me a shipping label it's yours. Check the alt for details on it. 43313
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The kawaii mothman design is out! The plushies themselves are not listed yet, but that is forthcoming. ko-fi.com/post/Kawaii-... 064
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Fat 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. 010
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026(I will take lightbox pictures tomorrow, and have links to the embroidery-machine design and a way to get the finished plush.) 000
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026He's pulling a caboose as well, of course. 120
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If your mothman has well-defined abs he's probably dehydrated, get him some nectar right away. 182
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Got out the moth-moth to see how the wings work on the chibi mothman and somehow I am making another moth? 143
Reposted by Karen at Silver SeamsKaren at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The design listing is up! You can make so many different little goblins in your embroidery machine. You can buy it as a one-off design, or it's the July reward for monthly members on both Patreon and Ko-fi.silverseams.comKawaii Goblin Design | Silver SeamsIn-the-hoop machine embroidery design for goblin plushies 122
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Some generations of it are okay but I just pulled my JoAnn pickle minky out (kelly-green dot/bump minky) and that is the objectively worst minky ever. Waxy *and* crunchy! And this project involved hand-sewing. 110
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 20/07/2026(If you don't have an embroidery machine, I will be making listings for the demonstration goblins too.) 000
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The design listing is up! You can make so many different little goblins in your embroidery machine. You can buy it as a one-off design, or it's the July reward for monthly members on both Patreon and Ko-fi.silverseams.comKawaii Goblin Design | Silver SeamsIn-the-hoop machine embroidery design for goblin plushies 122
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Never thought I'd be making in-the-hoop clothing on an embroidery machine but here we are. 😉 040
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I'm back! (Unscheduled break because one of the kids was in the hospital) 032
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026*herd of deer frozen in headlights, cigarettes dangling slackly from hooves or lips* 010
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Yep, and if you are trying to pack "light" or things less likely to wrinkle, you're going to go for poly or poly blend. 000
Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 11/07/2026This, plus the bit about traveling: less laundry access + clothes being in suitcases all the time + polyester clothes + stress just dials it all the way up. 120