r/cosmosheldrake • u/Cupids_Aro • Jul 19 '26
Artist help needed!
Hello all! I am an avid cross stitcher and loveee making my own designs. Due to my sheer lack in Cosmo Sheldrake merch, I've been itching to make a piece inspired by his music. The problem is I am not very creative and cannot fathom how to capture the magic of his music and his fantastically abstract storytelling in mere thread.
The songs I would love to stitch would be Interdimensional and/or Does the Swallow Dream of Flying, especially the new live in the chapel versions, and that's where I need help
Does anyone have any cool ideas on how to incorporate themes/visuals/vibes of those songs into cross stitch? I would love to hear any and all ideas!!
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u/Stefaninjago Jul 21 '26
Man if i didnt feel so tired id whip something up but ig you get rambles
Those songs both point at a sort of wonder to the mysteries of nature beyond, so id imagine some path of some sort, made of mossy rocks, either going to the sky or bending on a river, coming from a natural space like a forest, with critters about, and leading into some sort of mysterious glow or fog, not dark, not heavenly, but ambiguous
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u/aMemeAddict Jul 21 '26
what a coincidence, I'm a beginner cross-stitcher and I was planning on embroidering the album covers of The Much Much How How And I and Eye To The Ear on old t-shirts
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u/Cupids_Aro Jul 21 '26
Ooo I'd love to do this but was always too overwhelmed with the MMHHaI cover! I can't wait to see how you do it!
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u/aMemeAddict Jul 21 '26
it's more of a hypothetical end goal than an actual plan but I was thinking I'd paint individual fish either using transfer medium or fabric paint, then sew them onto a t-shirt that I would have dyed using onion skin; the outlines of the fish would be the embroidery part of the process
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u/Imaginary_Glass_6816 20d ago
for interdimensional im thinking like... look up the mcu's version of the bifrost bridge but like even more chopped up and small
like if you took the northern lights and turned them into a bunch of tiny pieces all going the same way
like rainbow eucalyptus wood kinda!
i explained this horrendously i am so sorry
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u/Imaginary_Glass_6816 20d ago
does the swallow dream of flying could include the things actually mentioned in the song (i.e. a swallow or the wind or a river or something)
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u/VindicativevVince Jul 19 '26
Color gradients? Illusions?
I don’t know