June 2025

5 July 2025 (Edited: 6 July 2025)

June was a quieter month for me without any markets, no surprise because Swedes tend to go on vacation after Midsummer. So, July will probably continue to be calm.

My next market will be the artist alley at QueerCon in Stockholm, a small convention held by the association Queer & Nerdy on the two days before the Stockholm Pride parade. Thus, I have been making up on nerdy and pride-themed items.

Twelve multicolor dragonscale dice bags on a starry tablecloth. Most are closed, but one is open and lying on its side with dice spilling out.

These dragonscale/dragon egg dice bag sold well at VänCon in April, so I really wanted to make more of them. The yarn is Universe XL by Hobbii, and I love how the color changes look on the scaly dice bags. One ball of yarn easily makes two dice bags. There are a few more colorways I want to try but first I have other things to make (and maybe the yarn will go on sale again at some point).

Four flower pins, all with a yellow center: a daisy and 18 white petals, one with 20 petals in pink, purple, and blue (bisexual pride), one with 16 petals in yellow, white, purple and black (non-binary pride), and one with 12 petals in 6 rainbow colors.

With QueerCon coming up, I wanted to make more pride-themed items. Pins are always a great option for that. I already have a patter for making flowers that I used for my Sunflower and Daisy bookmarks (soon I'll finally write it up), so making flower pins was the obvious first step. The brooch backing was very easy to sew on. For making pride flags, I just needed to play with the number of petals a little bit to make the right number of stripes.