Awareness of the outside world. MOPOP: Online Collection Vault. The Museum of Pop Culture is in Seattle WA USA. Posted here in honor of Seattle WorldCon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, which starts this week.
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Fuchsia in color. Fabric in theory.
“Fuchsia is a vivid pinkish-red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.” Wiki: Fuchsia (color).
“Traditionally, historic blackwork is done on very fine plain-weave linen, typically 80-90 threads per inch.” The Little Book of Historic Blackwork by Toni Buckby (IPN 2024), p13.
Process Notes
Outer form from E alternate. Has the advantage of maximizing interior space for the pattern. [E Variations]
Partial interior pattern. The rest are single Fs in one of four orientations.
Arrangement I would have used if I wasn’t trying to fit the inner design into the outer shape.
As with any of the square letters, – F, T, etc. – you have to be careful of unintentionally producing culturally fraught symbols.
Project Description [Colorwork Alphabet Introduction]
Previous Posts [Colorwork Alphabet]
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
The first one, the F, is fascinating and well done but the second, the feet-wheel, is delightful.
Louise
Have to say, I’m really not fond of this one.