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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Smaug says good morning! I’m just a glorified heat rock.

A bearded dragon is sprawled on his Mom’s shoulder as she cross-stitches.

Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Smaug wanted hugs. What could possibly go wrong? Don’t worry, he’s under constant supervision with the cats. They get a little too curious with him.

Smaug the bearded dragon perched on my arm.

Smaug the bearded dragon ignoring the two cats sitting on my lap. The feeling is not mutual.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Poor bedraggled bee. It’s been raining or misting here for a while. As I walked to my shop, I noticed one of our shrubs - each group of flowers had a single bee perched on it. Their fuzz is all wet and clumped. Hopefully they’ll feel better after the sun comes out again.

A wet bumblebee hunkered down on pink flowers.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love it when you can see the pattern right away! Trim for a plain sweatshirt. Alternating twists between 2, 3, and 4 segments (depending how many times I repeat the middle pattern). Lunatic Fringe yarns. #tabletweaving #weaving #fiberarts

Purple, lavender, and white yarn woven into a twisted simple knot pattern, on a loom.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Monster Loom (v. 1.0) is up and running. Bracing along the base reduced the wiggle. Future versions will have the tension pegs moved to the 1st & 3rd leg, instead of the middle leg and neck. Currently warped with 254” of shoelaces. Can hold a warp of ~576” (or 48’… or 16yd), which is crazy.

Closeup of the top half of the Monster Loom

3/4 view of Loom, as you would sit at it, with one tension peg close by.

Huge loom, tiny project! A shoelace tablet weaving, just begun.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Monster Loom is coming along. The body is solid as a rock, but the base isn’t as stable as I want yet. Adding braces, and we’ll see how it goes. #inkleloom #loom #weaving #woodcarving #woodwork

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'll be offering both Cross-stitch on wood, AND tablet weaving for beginners at the October Red River Valley Woodcarvers show in Fargo, ND, at the Fargo Air Museum. As not *everyone* has an Inkle loom, I'm putting forth the current options out there...

The right side of the loom, showing pegs, against a red background

The left side of the loom, shown against a red background

A norse knotwork dragon, and text reading "The Wyrmling"

A magnetic pick counter on the top of the loom

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The new Pokemon cards work great! I have Schacht cards, which are $15 for 25 cards (3.5”), but they tend to feel too big when you’re turning a bunch of them. Or… I can buy 400 game cards for $15, trim them square and add holes, and they’re 2.5” square - a perfect fit.

An inkle loom warped with black-yellow-orange bee-inspired threads, and Pokemon playing cards punched with holes instead of boring white cards.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's almost East Coast bedtime on Day 1 of the United States of Science 2026! You all absolutely killed it today. We filled 1268 bubbles today!! 23 States are DONE, & 8 are within 10 bubbles. You are all incredible!! Keep the momentum going here. Fill bubbles here givebutter.com/USS2026

a map of the united states with a blue west coast, pink middle, purple for northeast, and green southern states. Half of the bubbles are full!

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Arrrrrrrgh - I be at the “Snow Daze Carve-In” this weekend, working on me skills, and trading cross-stitch blanks for treasure. It be a good day!

A partially carved pirate bust, made from basswood.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Had tree branches fall in the yard, and wanted to upcycle them into something. I love how nuthatches are such crazy gymnasts (check out their hallux claws!) - worked up a flat plane birb, and affixed it to the branch with a dowel. Add a magnet and bingo! New fridge buddy. #woodcarving #bird

A nuthatch carved from basswood, then painted, attached to a natural birch stick.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ash wood with amber, and walnut wood with malachite. I’m excited to see how these turn out! The piece with a dot is for making example pieces. That way there’s a record of the wood-stone combinations I’ve made. #runes #norse #woodworking #elderfuthark #amber #malachite #EcoPoxy

Two sets of runes, yet to be cut out, filled with epoxy and stone. The one in front is a light ash wood with amber. The one in back is a dark walnut with green malachite.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

New Rune sets in progress. Perfect for Ask and Embla, the runes up top are Ash, and the boards below are Elm reclaimed by @woodfromthehood.bsky.social I’ve never worked with Elm before - it has a pleasant smell, almost like cedar or juniper. #woodworking #runes #elderfuthark

Fresh Elm wood boards, topped with runes made from Ash wood.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Is this not the most gorgeous piece of Ash you’ve ever seen? The figure is phenomenal, and the color just stunning. #carving #woodworking

An exceptionally nice colored slab of Ash wood, with curly figure.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Trying to get as many blanks done as possible. I’ll be teaching in Wahpeton, ND this June, and I have a vendor table at Snow Daze (St. Cloud, MN) this April. Lots of new designs. If you’re interested in carving and woodworking opportunities in the Midwest, check out www.carvinghub.org #woodwork

A Stegosaurus cross stitch on black walnut wood.

A table of cross stitch blanks sealed and drying.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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

A hollowed out chunk of fresh birch wood, being held with a hand for scale. The hollow measures ~7” / 17cm across.

The same hollowed out bowl filled with wood chips.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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

Numerous wooden shapes riddled with holes, ready for cross-stitching, lying on a table. Next to each is a corresponding blank backer-board to hide the stitches when they're finished.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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

Three wooden letter openers or corner-turners, resting on a purple velvet background. Each adorned with fine-line patterns hand-burned in to mimic kolrosing. Kolrosing is where a design is incised in with a thin blade, then filled with ground pigment, then burnished and sealed.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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

Cribbage board in the shape of Minnesota, cut from Walnut wood. Major lakes and rivers have been routed out, and filled with turquoise. Resting on a black velvet background. Holes are hand-drilled, as the size and scale didn't allow for any handy-dandy jigs.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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?”

Calico-tabby staring at the phone/camera wishing I’d go back to petting her and feeding her Braunschweiger.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

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.

Purple-blue-green woven bands with “M” and “W” shapes.

Red-yellow woven band with alternating diamond shapes.

Blue-yellow woven band with “Z” and “S” shapes, flanked by a black-white chevron. Two separate Finnish grave finds combined into one weave.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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

A black cat, and an orange, lying on maroon fabric spread on a wood floor. A tortie cat observes from a nearby box

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

Three rows of 10 spaces, numbered, made from birch plywood to hold iPads

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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

Yellow & black: 8 cards, unidirectional side twist, done to learn technique.

Purples: 14 cards, twist-neutral, entirely for speed.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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!

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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.

Wood-backed cross stitch projects clamped to their backer-boards, resting on a table, near two bottles of wood glue.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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

Three starter Pokemon (charmander, bulbasaur, and squirtle) cross-stitched onto a wooden backing made from bloodwood, ebony, and maple. The piece is resting on part of a keyboard and desk mat.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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.

Two yellow-orange painted "dragon-snails" crafted out of epoxy clay, set into real seashells. The one in front has a long puppy-dog face, while the one in back is perked up curiously.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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

A wooden Pokeball made from bloodwood, ebony, and maple, with the beginnings of three cross-stitched starter Pokemon.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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

A large fuzzy orange cat squeezed into a Girl Scouts’ Adventurefuls cookie box. Only ears and eyes visible on the right side, and a paw sticking out the left corner.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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!

A knife with an antler handle, and antler needle sitting in front, on a wood table.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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

Roughed out rectangular maple block, with kuksa cup drawn on

Me using a bent-neck gouge to scoop out my “hollow” - I’ll have to put one on my Christmas list…

End of day 1, my maple billet has a hollow, and rough shaping starting on the outside.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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

Three curved needles sitting on a teal background. Top with the eye facing left is a needle made from Koa, a wood from Hawaii (most likely fluorescent under black light). Middle with the eye facing right is a dark ebony. Bottom with the eye facing left is a marbled brown olivewood with turquoise and resin filling a crack along the length.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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

Halva the cat helping me with string theory and quality control.

A multi-colored weaving, with colored strands denoting the high-temperature for a day, on a black warp. January on the left, December on the right. Side 1.

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NDGS Paleo @ndgspaleo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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

A tiny faux Yule tree with lights decorated with a rainbow of felt plesiosaurs. One side of the ornaments is stitched with "2024". They have black button eyes, and jingle-bells sewn onto their backs.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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

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Chiakiro @chiakiro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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

The ends of simple loom shuttles in different types of wood - from left to right: Walnut, Caragana, Alder, Ash, and Rosewood. Set against a black velvet background.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

*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.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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 table top filled with hex-shelves, showing different colors of wood. A lone oak hex sits in the middle of a sea of honey-colored cherry, birch, alder, and hickory. Darker walnut hexes dot the end of the table.

A total of 19 hex-shelves made from oak, cherry, birch, alder, hickory, and walnut, sitting assembled on a table top, but not yet joined together.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

Hearts made from wood, natural colors. Stripes indicate Lesbian and Ace.

Spiral hearts made from wood, natural colors.

Simple one-color wooden hearts, natural colors, some with turquoise inlay.

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