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Azurekoi

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🇨🇦 Currently obsessed with making 3D printed embroidery hoops and needle minders. I do a variety of crafts such as felting, scalemaile, resinwork, marbling, dyeing, soaping, corsetry, sewing, embroidery, and weaving to name a few. azurekoi.com

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Feb 9

Hello! I'm Jan! I'm a Canadian crafter that is obsessed with making 3D printed embroidery hoops in wild shapes, with doors, caps and more. I have full embroidery kits for some of the hoops with custom printed fabric. I also make many, MANY needle minders. The cuteness is never ending.

a silly pink haired woman surrounded by crafts. 3d printed embroidery hoops that look like cats, a leaf, a frying pan, a gameboy and a chain chomp, and toast. with needle minders shaped like cats and frogs. And a project on a loom

Full embroidery kits. 3d printed hoops that look like a tree trunk with a little beetle buddy embroidery. A chat bubble with @%#$! stitched onto it. A frying pan hoop with embroidery that says "may all your bacon burn"

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 3h

Yummy star candies and little sooty dust bunnies! One of my favourites. (and yet again it's food!)

#needleminders #embroidery #snacktimeforever

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 2d

Throw back to that time I made a scalemaile top. I tried so many ways to crochet scales to speed up the process but in the end just making it with the chain rings turned out to be the quickest way.

#scalemaile

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 3d

You can stitch the most frightening things you can think of in these skull embroidery hoops! Like math tests, and someone using your fabric scissors on paper!

#embroidery #halloween #donttouchmyfabricscissors

one white and one black embroidery hoops shaped like the side view of a skull

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 5d

The Bambu A1 Mini was the first 3d printer I bought. It's a great little guy. It's also why most my hoop designs are the size they are. =D We can print bigger now, but I still love the small hoops.

#3dprinting #behindthescenes

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 7d

More delicious needle minders! Do you think maybe I'm hungry when I'm designing?? It's dino NUGGS!! And a smile fry to compliment. Yup, now I'm definitely hungry....

#embroidery #crossstitch #nuggs #smile

needle minders of dino nuggs and a smile fry, very breaded, very yummy

The full dino team, t-rex, stego and pterodactyl (yes I had to have spellcheck spell that last guy)

team fry guy, with the t-rex, stego and smile fry friend

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 9d

Throw back to that time I was obsessed with making soap. This one was done with chlorophyll. I have since learned that most cold processes methods turn chlorophyll brown. It did eventually turn brown after a few months, but it was pretty while it lasted. =D

#soaping #crafty

jade green soap with a black and white flower with gold centre

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 10d

One of the more delicious needle minder sets I've made. =D Daifuku with tea and sanshoku dango! My favourite is the strawberry.

#embroidery #crossstitch #dango

tea and daifuku in green pink and purple, with a sanshoku dango, three coloured dango, yummy

tea and daifuku in pink with a sanshoku dango, three coloured dango

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 14d

Anyone for a cuppa tea? The tea pot and cups embroidery hoops set. =D The cups have a little slot for a knotted thread you can put a label on so you know whats brewing. These are all full embroidery hoops with an opening and brass screw.

tea pot embroidery hoop with her babbies the cup hoops. in light purple. the saucers come off to show how the hoops open.

the teacup with a cute tag hanging that says Koi's Hot Tea

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 16d

Throw back to the time I was obsessed with doing bleach stencils on rayon. =D And also with putting fishing line into the roll hemmed edges to make weird tentacle effects.

#sewing #dyeing #bleachdyeing

ramune printed in Japanese on teal rayon fabric with a cool rolled edge that looks like octopus suction cups

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 17d

The yarn cauldrons and witchy hats also come in sticker form! For all your sticking things to things needs.

#stickers #halloweenvibes

sticker of a cauldron full of yarn, the cauldron is grey and orange and the yarn is rainbow

sticker of a cauldron full of yarn, the cauldron is pink and blue and the yarn is rainbow

a rainbow ball of yarn wearing a witches hat that says Yarn Witch

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 19d

Working on the colours for the boba tea needle minders. The browns are being really picky.

#needleminders #shrinkdinks #boba

various tiny boba tea, galaxy, night sky, pinks

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 21d

Stitch up some magic this Halloween! Behold! The bewitching yarn cauldrons and witchiest of witch hats. =D Perfect for adding a touch of spooky flair to your crafting!

#HalloweenCrafts #NeedleMinders #WitchyVibes

needleminders, cauldrons with yarn bubbling in them and witchy hats!

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 23d

Toss back Thursday to the first time I tried cathedral quilt style. It takes forever but its worth it.

#quilting #sewing #thistookforever

dark grey main fabric and water colour blues for the inner parts

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 24d

The cat blobs! I love my little blobby feline needle minders. =D Another set where it's really hard not to make a tonne of variations.

#embroidery #crossstitch #resinart

needle minders shaped like cat outlines with various fur colours and abstract colours inside

needle minders shaped like cat outlines with abstract purple colours inside

needle minders shaped like cat outlines with rainbow colours inside

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 26d

Making sure I have the goth frogs for the upcoming pumpkin season. (I have pumpkin frog too!) The little witch hat is going to go perfectly with these colours.

#embroidery #3dprinting #frogs

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 28d

Don't mess with this frog. They have proven that they have the patience to stab something 5000 times. =D
It's the cross stitch frawg, Stabby!

#crossstitch #stickerlife #frogs

frog on a lily pad holding a cross stitch and needle. Text above and below says 'feeling stabby' sticker

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · 29d

Throwback to the time I made this kanzashii hair comb for a St. Jude giveaway. It's called Nebula. The background is a minecraft 'bedrock' box. =D

#hairflowers #crafty

hair flower comb, greens purples and teals, very galaxy themed fabric with gold Swarovski crystals

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Ring Pop inspired needleminders aren't just eye-candy!

Add a pop of nostalgia to your sewing kit. Perfect for keeping your needles in check while adding a splash of retro fun. 🌈🧵

#Needleminders #90sNostalgia #embroidery

cute needleminders that look like ring pops but with little galaxies inside

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Strawberry frog! 🍓🐸 This one isn't up yet because of the hold on US shipping but someday the frog army will make it around the world.

#embroidery #3dprinting #frog

Strawberry frog is pink and has a strawberry leaf on its head but it is an embroidery hoop

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Little abstract gems. Looking at them always makes we want to try doing enamel work.

#embroidery #needleminder #resinwork

Various gem shapes with space galaxies inside

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Sep 3

The natural conclusion of the frying pan hoop is of course, full frying pan embroidery kit. I thought of the bacon text at 2am one night. It was like waking up and the idea fairy had left me a full design! =D

#embroidery #3dprinting #cleanedthestovetopforthatpic

the full frying pan embroidery kit. Bacon shaped text that reads 'May all your bacon burn' with the frying pan 3d printed hoop and fish bones shaped floss holder.

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Sep 1

One of the first embroidery hoops I made. The frying pan. Still a favourite. I like that it's a circle so I can hang it at any orientation.

#embroidery #crossstitch #3dprinting

The best way to fry up some embroidered eggs. The frying pan embroidery hoop!

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Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just so y'all know I have at least 30 more photos like this. Getting that cute 'meet the maker' pic involved sooo many trainer treats. At least Luci looks cute no matter what. I look like I need a nap in most shots. =D

#behindthescenes #meetthemaker

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Stitch with Pride! My favourite out of all the shop stickers. My fav non-shop sticker is )of course) Luci's face sticker. =D

sticker, says Stitch with pride. 3 inches high. with a back ground of a floss bobbin with price colours and the progress triangle coming from the side

Azurekoi @azurekoi.bsky.social · Aug 25

The frog triplets! Knitty, Crochet and Stabby McGee. Needle minders. I used the same design to make embroidery hoops as well.

#needleminders #frogs #resinart

needle minders of frogs, one knitting, one crochet and one cross stitch

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