Trying to make a "Moss Corset" (using embroidered moss)

[@JessRushworth]

~ let's get whimsical ~ is my workout vibe of the summer. no more hot girl summer, I'm doing moss girl summer

[@aurelieroque2006]

With the high vis 80s workout garb. Just magical. 🎉

[@damejanea.macdonald2371]

instead of hot girl, it's girl left in the cold damp. Love that.

[@legitenoughtoquit]

Ooooooh! Me too! Me too!

[@laurabunn2993]

But why did I hear "Let's get whimsical" to the tune of Let's get physical by Olivia Newton John?

[@Tallia3]

@@laurabunn2993because that’s what it was a parody of?

[@HAGGISWOOMAN]

To sit on a porch swing surrounded by nature and embroidery in the rain = life goals ❤

[@Misspip1993]

YUP

[@mickey_moo_]

Whether or not a project goes to plan or not, I can confidently say watching Rachel doing her thing (being a goblin whiskey grandpa witch) is one of my favorite things on the internet. To Marie Kondo, this channel brings me joy

[@rachelhulson8839]

You are a warm hug, if a human was a warm hug. Thank you for encouraging me obession with making random outfits/costumes

[@jzmn2828]

Becoming a moss maiden, emo Frodo, tiny frog… this video is art that speaks to my soul!

[@IzzysSleepy]

Can I say how nice it is to watch you sew on the swing? It looks and SOUNDS so frickin beautiful and peaceful. Thanks for sharing those vibes.

[@ashleysovilla2037]

Even the things you don’t entirely love the final product of, are pretty darn cool! Sometimes the act of creating is more important to our souls than the final result! 💚🐸💚

[@thesimplefarmgirl]

It’s funny how critical we are of ourselves. This is amazing girl!!! I love the final results!! Amazing!💚

[@JSanime]

Every time Rachel says she's cursed, I wait to see if she's going to turn into a vase. 😂

[@reginafetty6374]

😂😂😂

[@samanthagirly3350]

Rachel can make anything look cute and amazing

[@galacticpotato607]

she's already been cursed! she turned into a lamp!!

[@ReneesatItAgain]

@@samanthagirly3350 Awomen!! She can and does!! Had me Texas shaped rug - I wanna be that and Grandmaster Flash! The rain and fur babes ... icing!

[@danglishgirl]

I think the bodice is delightfully mosssy! You could shorten the front and add a skirt, then add boning to the back. It has great potential for a theatrical, mossy dress! ❤

[@xchrysantha]

11:27 I've never wanted a porch more than I do in this moment right here. Ohmygod that's beautiful. I took the deepest breath I've taken today just watching this.

[@trackydoo]

Painting over the "moss" was a good idea. I think that bright green is what was throwing it off. Painting it helped to make them more similar in color, but still gives it a slight variation. Bravo! Also, i wish i could sit on your swing and listen to the rain. 😍

[@sugarandchaos]

I have all the time in the world for emo Frodo. 🖤

[@shanana50]

Tip to reduce tangling/leg looping problems: never work with a thread longer than your arm reach, that way there's not enough thread in play to get tangled easily. Working with longer lengths may seem faster, but you add so much de-tangling time! Thank you for being inspiring to this old lady!

[@uhohspaghettios2391]

I actually really liked the varying shades of green. I thought it looked like different kinds of moss all clumped together. I also think it would look great if you did this on a brown fabric to make it look like moss growing on a fallen tree in the woods! Then again, my ideas are usually kind of sketchy, lolol😂

[@lexienmeyers2639]

WHAT EVER mama! 12:36 hand-on-neck-with-round-glasses-and-curtain-bangs is giving 90s heartthrob and i love everything about it

[@kaitlynroberts5027]

Honestly, the way you re-cycled the gathered waist band to be the sleeves was GENIOUS! 10 out of 10 approve!

[@turbulentbeauty]

The embroidery looks great! I agree the paint really finished this and made it look more cohesive. Great job as always.

[@HollyDunnDesign]

The rainy day aesthetic shots are EVERYTHING!

[@etdicila8894]

I love your honesty regarding the gap between the result and what you expected Too many creators try to oversell and fake it

[@elizathemermaid]

This is so cute! It definitely has "i have emerged from the forest after centuries" energy

[@paloma_hill]

I really love adding beads to my moss embroideries, both shades of green and metallics. it brings a lot of life to the embroidery floss!

[@mosslou9854]

moss is just peak! highest quality. moss art? moss clothing? just moss moss? amazing!

[@backuppixiedust1115]

This is really cool! A while ago, I found some green textured scrubby yarn at a craft store that I meant to do moss effects with, but I mosplaced it somewhere in my craft room before I could get around to it. (Yes I saw the typo but it’s too funny to go back and fix) I really do need to try the felt layers trick to add bulk to my embroidery projects, that looks like fun

[@marissabulso6439]

“I’ll take you to hot topic later, I swear.” 😭😂😂😂 That was too precious.

[@meganhassler677]

Running your string across some bees wax also helps with tangles and twists, they use that trick for book-binding stitches 😊

[@samischultz8132]

It turned out so cute-!! I've found with anything corset-like that it helps to put a piece of boning between the eyelets and the edge of the fabric- it helps the bodice to pull in more evenly and give better support

[@penguinhugz]

Growing up very emo-goth core the moment with Frodo has been sending me and has been living rent free in my head for the last 14 hours

[@kriskris5907]

your attitude towards creating is so inspiring to me as an artist- I adore your willingness to just try things out and go after what inspires you with curiosity and appreciation for the process. I hope I can work towards being more like that with my own work

[@tynebaker]

Tiny American toadlet! And I think a grey tree frog friend being sneaky and grey. ❤ thanks for sharing your amphibians.

[@silliepixie]

I love the Let's Get Whimsical bit, and Emo Frodo, and the frogs, and this quote- “I quite like embroidery. I think it soothes the chaos of my inner being.” -Rachel Maksy

[@kaylamiller1572]

I got here so fast for this. Yes cool niche corsets!!!

[@jannettealejo1990]

I love, love, love moss! It looks so pretty on anything. I think this came out better than expected. Love it!

[@moira._]

SO excited for your autumn 2023 era. ❤️🍂

[@dstarchild2549]

When I was in college. I made a bodice that I actually tried growing moss on. It didn't grow well. I ended up sewing real moss onto it, which worked pretty well. Then I used actual sticks as "boning". It was kind of cool

[@ssgtmole8610]

I attempted one embroidery project in college for the Society for Creative Anachronism and it was one tenth of the area you covered. I bailed on stitching after the first item I did and used iron on fabric for the rest. Good on you for sticking with it. 😀 If I ever try embroidery again, I'd prefer to have someone teach me how to do it properly. 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫

[@hcol6897]

Omg I love the outcome of this, the neckline is so so elegant

[@carveylover]

Hidey Ho Maskyteers! I hope everyone one is having a wonderfully whimsical Friday! I hope everyone has a good weekend. Do something fun and full of whimsy! Love you, you beautiful goblins.

[@philippatill9727]

Ooo I'm adopting that name! 😊 #maskyteers

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there! You're as welcome as can be! R-A-C, H-E-L, M-A-K-S-Y!

[@carveylover]

@@philippatill9727 please. I have been trying to make a thing for 2 years lol.

[@tigristhelynx7224]

#maksyteers is hilarious! And we're trolls, not goblins. lol

[@carveylover]

@tigristhelynx7224 I actually should have said Hobbits. Truly, that's what we are hobbites.

[@ashleysanders9566]

The 'sitting on the porch swing during a summer storm' scene made my day. Sincerely, person living in the dry-ass Southwest.

[@SamWest96]

Oooohh im excited for this! I've just literally been planning out a leafy corset - like forest fairy corset. So weird that you've gone down a similar path. Your skills are infinitely better than mine though so I intend to watch this verrryyy closely

[@sarahprior1945]

Im amazed at how quickly you made that. I did an embroidery piece that was nearly completely french knots and it took ridiculously longer than that.

[@suzannaprovenzano4209]

i'll be honest, i kinda liked the multi colored "moss'. but i also know that things, especially color, look different IRL vs. camera. love it! i also have made friends with the teensy frogs this week. why are teensy things so cute!!!!

[@elainemayronne7419]

So creative! Awsome inspiration for making moss maps! People will probably buy it! A moss corset belt where the moss drapes starting on the top of the belt to below. Also a moss hip belt!❤... lol

[@TheePinkExplosion]

its so fun watching these videos, after watching you for a couple years, it feels like I'm hanging out with an old friend :)

[@minatheminstrel]

thank you reminding me, that I want my live more whimsical! *.* Probably must embroider something with „moss“ now!

[@jennia.2318]

Thank you for this video! I just love your humor and aesthetics. And I'm planning to make some kind of stays and reminder that more boning is in fact more boning if I want it to be supporting was so needed. Thank you!

[@floxy709]

when my brain sees your embroidered moss it goes DAS MOS, LOVE MOSE, M NATUR, LOVE A FOREST. So, great job, thats a damn fine moss uve made there

[@chloechartier2707]

12:03 what a cute little dude! I'm so glad this is officially a frog spotting channel now

[@stephstevens2]

I really appreciate you sharing those frogs with us ❤

[@nannybells]

rachel's hair looks so pretty with the roots, it's giving hayley williams

[@YourFriendlyInsuranceAdjuster]

Embroidering on the porch swing while it was raining was so cozy!! 💕

[@Nasalkeihpos]

I’m so impressed that you actually embroidered the moss things. When I saw the thumbnail I thought you bought fake moss and glue it on with hot glue. So colour me impressed!

[@anc6353]

Ooh I'd love to see you add butterflies and/or moths!! Idk why but it seems magical and foresty, something the fae folk would wear 💚

[@qkranarchist3015]

I have a few starter kits to embroider. This might get me to try them. Rachel's so fun.

[@jolyncarstairs512]

I think it looks very cute. It's giving real whimsical, nature-esque Rachel vibes and that's what i am here for! ♥

[@Kusid68]

i looove how it looks! i think it turned out great, with the colors and everything! really inspired me

[@HopefullRomantic]

The embroidery looked soooo cool!!!

[@definitelynotagoose]

This was a really fun video and loved the journey it went on. I thought the moss looked fantastic and adding it to my list of crafting projects

[@vintagecameragirl]

I loved in a village and twice a year we were over run by frogs and toads. They would come to the local lake to spawn, and then the babies would go the other way. My childhood was me ferrying them safely across the road in summer rainstorms

[@TropicanaThunda]

I love it 🖤 and you looked really relaxed when you were doing the French knots when the thread wasn’t grabbing you for dear life. Which same. The struggle bus backs over me too after doing it’s thing. Lol

[@shaunasartoris3769]

I so admire you, Rachel! Thank you for showing the process, even when the end result wasn’t exactly what you’d hoped for... the internet is a better place with you in it! 😊💛

[@GossamerAtara]

i think it's just one of those things with art that the longer you look at it while you're working on it, the more you hate it. i think it looks fantastic! i liked it before and after the fabric paint, before i likened it to a multicolored lichen (pun intended 😅)

[@laureljenkins6566]

I absolutely love the "whimsical" theme song! 😆

[@lydiarowe491]

Embroidery can give you another look completing it the task to give into..make your thread shorter it will make it easier to work with…and the tapestry thread saved the day…I liked the finished piece..don’t give up on doing another alike project …you do dive into the deep end giving creatives the blast that I can do this..❤

[@melodye14]

This turned out really well! Especially with your pictures at the end.

[@archerbrinkley8481]

Oh my god, I have limited sewing experience and no cosplay experience and that method of drafting is insane to me 😂 if it works it works!

[@lilbbwalrus]

I LOVE IT!!! The texture is like PERFECT and it gives Moldy Victorian Lady

[@mildlycornfield]

To share literally the only embroidery advice I have: split your floss!!! It will go a lot further and lay a lot flatter! Your French knots will also pull much tighter!

[@Laceyspam_]

the "Let's Get Whimsical " was everything! 😂🥰🍃

[@noelgrabow5484]

The embroidery looks great! I cannot make a French knot well to save my dang life, yours are beautiful!

[@erinbathie-moore8478]

Both you and pricklyalpaca make my adhd brain happy. Thank you for the extra dopamine

[@ondeanelourens]

You are wonderfully weird and I love it! Cheers to all the weird people that are proud to be just that! They are my tribe ❤. Love your videos Rachel, you are awesome!

[@iamwindchakra]

I actually think it's a gorgeous. You can always go back and fix the issues with the eye holes in the back if you want to, at a later date. If you feel like doing a video where you go back to some of your handmade items and touch them up on the things that you don't like about them, I would watch that video.

[@E_FoxSnowspirit]

I see her knowledge of The Mummy has been retained... Excellent On a side note- That bronze mouse used to hold down the pattern pieces is FREAKIN ADORABLEEEEEEEEE

[@teresagriffin2070]

I personally love it! I probably would have made the sleeves sheer, Great job 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽🐉🍃

[@lillylilium497]

I believe crocheting moss with fluffy yarn and a thick hook might be up your alley :D It's foolproof and much quicker than embroidering (: I'm still searching for a sweater to add the crochet moss to, but it's perfect for a hobbit/goblin/bog witch aesthetic.

[@caporalemamandine643]

I love it!!!! I’m going to cover all my stuff with embroidery moss 💚💚💚

[@ArianaCapraro]

I think griming it up a little and a green quilt-y skirt with more moss patches would look nice. It’s still super cute though! I am inspired to become a mossy hermit myself for the renaissance fest although I’d rather garrote myself with embroidery floss than actually embroider with it. I’ll get that fake moss stuff even if it’s not as cute.

[@JadeBlackWolf]

Before you painted it. It looked more organic. An what a piece of clothing would have looked like in Ye olden days. lol but loved the final look as well.

[@FabeFangs]

The amount of joy I receive from seeing you futzing around and just being yourself is ✨️chefs kiss✨️

[@HarlequinPixie]

Ahhh. Wicked Good Books. Those that place. (Have T-shirt version of that shirt too)

[@caesarweasel]

Turkey rug stitches can also be called velvet work!

[@mkatcavanaugh]

Could you do a new tutorial on how you've been doing your Edwardian-esque hairstyle??? It looks so freaking cute in this video, and I've wanted to try this style for a whirl but figured my hair was still too short to attempt it. 😁

[@Feealy]

Emo Frodo is my favourite thing ever 💚🖤

[@meaganhenderson5007]

I know that you don't think this project turned out to be the best thing in the world, but I (and probably many other people) love it! But such is art sometimes--you only see the flaws but we see an amazing creation! I hope hope you're having a great week ❤

[@cynthialitchfield]

The old saying- Natalie Chanin uses it in her classes: “Long tail lazy girl”. No longer than your arm. Also the suggestions from everyone to use wool is valid but shorter threads mean you can change colors more often. I also would recommend French knots on top of themselves using different colors.

[@cynicalmuse]

One of my favorite methods of blending thread colors to make a more natural/realistic shading gradient is using india ink wash to unify the colors and adding more pigment to darker areas. Fabric paint works for this too but I like india inks because they are more transparent and you can build up the color. Also they are light fast and are essentially fabric dye just way more expensive lol. Otherwise, I echo the other tips about using different types and sizes of embroidery floss to add texture and variety. 👍

[@jane.or.something]

i’ve been wanting to try this for ages- maybe now i finally will!

[@loquaciousmoss]

I'm obsessed. Catch me covering my clothes with embroidered moss this summer.

[@luisalulu2404]

Can I just say that this looks so so good? Like gurl dont talk yourself down

[@BeautifullyBookish95]

I really freaking love this. Tally ho! To the craft store! This is everything I want in life.

[@christinaruiz3323]

I just adore watching!!!

[@adrienso3ia]

i once did a piece of the appalachians and decided to do Entirely French Knots and it was.... tedious. but it looked very very good. god bless.

[@bookmouse2719]

I'm here for the cat and dog comedy. You didn't disappoint.

[@Elemiriel]

*low chortle* That last line!! I wondered if it was purchased especially... and I was RIGHT. *evil chortling continues*

[@kurthl33t]

Such cool coloring on the frog! Perfect for blending into rocks!

[@megankuchta9145]

I feel like it would be fantastic with terrarium sleeves

[@junoantaresofficial]

That intro though 🔥🔥 I wonder if the bodice being brown under the green moss would make it feel more your style, I think it would also make the moss pop.

[@screaminggecko7660]

I think the crooked look is from the visual imbalance of the moss not the construct of the corset itself. I would see if adding a little clump over the hip area on the side with the lighter/smaller moss to see if that visually balances the design. I think continuing to add to the top of it would just make it look too heavy though. As for the colors I think part of the reason they looked messy was cause they were blotched out in a sort of camo pattern rather than corresponding with ideas of moss growing naturally. Generally healthier moss is thicker and darker. Lighter moss is starved of light or water, so when you put the very light green on the raised area it looked intuitively strange because the shape of the garment indicated that was a thick healthy area. With something topographical like this I would put the lighter colors in the areas where they'd get less attention and darker colors where you want it to be more visually prominent, which feels backwards because you'd think to shade with dark. I do think adding the thin coat of paint to even out the tone over everything turned out really nicely and would probably work in general as a final step for moss embroidery. Overall I think you are being to hard on yourself and it turned out great, these are just some minor critiques

[@GinnyEvergreen]

Also, that intro, 10 / 10⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️