I'm making a Clydesdale using a vintage sewing pattern, I've chosen mohair and wool furs and it's stuffed with wool, too. The tail and mane are made with sheep hide offcuts from a tannery on Skye (Skye Skyns). I'm waiting for some glass eyes to arrive.
There's a little polyester for the hoofs and the sewing thread I used is a polycotton blend. Other than that, it's natural fibres (but not vegan).
He's called Carnera after the locally famous Irn Bru horse.
Everyone’s been a big fan of this pattern, but sadly it doesn’t seem to be available online anymore as the website I downloaded it from has vanished into the aether.
As such, I’ve made my modified version (with hoofs) available over here for free: https://ko-fi.com/s/ad98e35459
For Carnera I printed the pattern 1/2 size and added seam allowance. If you print it full size it'll be a bit bigger!
Here's the latest update on Carnera. Still waiting for eyes, put sand bags in his feet so he's more poseable and doesn't fall over as easily. Also "braided" his mane.
Clydesdale updates:
His eyeballs arrived! They're little glass traditional teddy eyes with wire backs. I also re-did his mane braid. I'm going to find/make some little horse shoes for him and then I think he will be done!
Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-
Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me
My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten
college-aged obama portraying himself as bisexual in an effort to attract artsy girls is the funniest thing i’ve read all week
LIST OF MEN WHO HAVE TRIED AND FAILED TO BE BISEXUAL:
I can’t stop getting emotional about how tenderly a shepherd caresses his dog’s face on this marble sarcophagus from the third century
The dog’s face is just so lovingly crafted and it’s much more finely detailed than some of the other animals in the piece. The expression is pure contentment and devotion. This scene is a tiny portion of a huge elaborate sculpture but I really feel like the artist was trying to capture a specific emotion with these two. The way that you feel when you look at your dog is thousands of years old.
An extract from Cynegeticus [On Hunting (with Dogs)], by the Greek writer Arrian (86-160 CE), about his dog, Horme [Dash]:
While I am at home she remains by my side, and accompanies me when I go out, following me to the gymnasium, and, while I am exercising, sits by me. On my return home, she runs in front of me, often looking to see whether I had turned off the road; and as soon as she catches sight of me, shows symptoms of joy, and again, turns and trots in front of me. If I am going out on any government business, she remains with my friend, and treats him exactly the same. If she has not seen either of us for a short time, she jumps up repeatedly by way of greeting, and barks with joy. At meals she pats us, with one foot and the other, to remind us to feed fer.
Having been beaten with a whip as a puppy, if anyone, even to this day, mentions a whip, she will come up to the speaker cowering and begging, and will jump up and hang on their neck, applying her mouth to theirs as if to kiss them, and will not let go until she is appeased.
Now really I do not think that I should be ashamed to write the name of this dog; so that it may be left to posterity.
[I] had a greyhound named Horme, who was of the greatest speed and intelligence and, was altogether excellent.
Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results
Yeah actually I just discovered how to turn plastic into gold. Oh you want to know how I did it
Starts running away cutely
He killed himself right in front of them too.
