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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 7d

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

#diy #epoxyfloor #sheshed

Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · 9d

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 · Oct 1

We see you are stabbing sharp things through the fabric. We too can stab with sharp things!

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · Oct 1

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 · Sep 26

Missing my ND found-family too. If you’re ever down here give me a buzz!

Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · Sep 26

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 · Sep 6

That’s my goal for this Sunday. Wish me luck!

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 · Aug 28

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 · Jul 18

Gah! I immediately tried to search for it... and it was *gasp* GONE! Beautiful piece. Love the subtle color changes in the neck.

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · May 5

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 · Apr 9

The steps:
1. Design the pattern! What colors go where, how many stitches...
2. Mark the holes on the wood backer
3. Tap a point onto each mark to help guide your drill bit (VERY important step)
4. Drill holes, preferably while listening to music
5. Recess back
6. Seal
7. Stitch
8. Backer-board

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · Apr 9

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 · Apr 4

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...

Professor Primula's Portfolio of Palaeontology

A palaeontology-themed roleplaying supplement

www.kickstarter.com

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · Apr 4

Entelodauntlets FTW!

Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Apr 4

Neanderthal concepts for Professor Primula’s Portfolio of Palaeontology, a brand-new playable character included in the book. We’re now in the final stretch of the Kickstarter campaign—with just 3 days remaining!

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Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · Apr 4

Ok... the entelodauntlets are amazing!

Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social · Apr 2

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 · Apr 1

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 · Mar 22

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 · Mar 1

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 · Feb 12

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!