Hello everyone! I am currently in the guts of designing the final files for the pins and choosing the proper thread colours for the socks.

This is a very quick update because.... well. Our ambitious sock design had an unrealistic background colour- which completely messed up the perception of the sock and how the colours flowed together. Unfortunately the dragonfly has become doomed yuri... What do you mean pastel banana yellow isn't a thread colour?! Sigh....

I did my best to match something to flow well with the yellow, though it's more muted. But I got very frustrated, and as I went colouring the background to every single possible colour, I decided to try a full cherry blossom scheme too. So now I'm giving you all two options.

Yellow? Or pink?

This is going to be a VERY QUICK poll because I would like to send these off for samples ASAP, as the threads need to be dyed and that takes time too. 

Voting ends on Tuesday morning 10am Irish time. Please let me know your thoughts!

To compensate, here's a little look at the final designs as well

Now that I'm looking again a few hours later I might make the millie's head bigger.... hmmm

Anyway! Thank you for helping out everyone! Hope to see you again soon ;D

And beyond my expectations by a million. I want to thank all of you for the one last big push, it turned out that we were in overtime with the campaign for over 4 hours (that's CRAZY)

Big props to everyone who has joined our little grasshopper family. You all are incredible and we wouldn't be here without your incredible support, excitement, and push for more things... like yuri

At the end of the campaign there I was slowly starting to lose my mind with marketing. It's honestly the hardest part for me personally, and it sort of drives me coockoo if I do it too long (if you saw my tumblr posts well... thank you for surviving them) This is honestly what spawned bug yuri into existence. I love to add a little fun flare to things, a little silliness, and that silliness is going to manifest into bug girls kissing

The spontaneous goal of €4,800 for yuri was ambitious, and I can't believe we actually surpassed it- I'm shocked! So now I will be in the business of delivering yuri to you all. And not just a single sketch either- I'll do a short comic about these girl, or die trying.

I'll be working on finalising the artwork and sending it off for samples! Both pins and socks. Once samples are produced I'll be setting up the surveys and opening the preorder store. Hopefully all goes smoothly. For the moment you can rest easy and know that lots of bug stuff is brewing under the hood <3

Thank you so much again everyone, I'm truly grateful to you all for coming along on this journey with me <33

See you all soon!

Hello hello everyone! We have come quite the ways since the start of this campaign, and I must say.... I'm so proud of us. I did not expect this to get so much love and attention, especially because it's such a different style compared to my other works. But I couldn't be happier. You're all amazing, please pat yourselves on the back for making this become a reality <3

Now after tallying up all the votes from Backerkit, Instagram and Tumblr, we have arrived to the conclusion that the CHOCOLATE MILLIPEDE has won best in show for the socks!

But that's not all... to show my gratitude to you all, I actually elected to put another design in as official.... because it has lovely autumn vibes, and I think these two go well together.

So from now on, you're able to pick up both or only one of these if you so wish from the add-on section <3

The add on will let you choose which design you'd like at the end of the campaign, so if you'd like them both, be sure to pick this add-on twice!

That's kinda gay... I won't lie.... so I feel like if we can reach €4800 by the end of the campaign then

How does that sound? Can we make these two lovers kiss? Or will the love remain unrequited?

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Last minute shoutouts!

There's some new excited campaigns going on that I'd like to highlight.

You've already heard about Fate, a book project I'm a guest artist on!

But I'd also like to shout out another Irish artist's plush campaign with alien cats! Mori has already made one gigantic alien cat, and now moving on to create mini versions! (and one of them is Garfield. come on you wanna see Garfield right?)

Check it out!

HELLO EVERYONE! 2 days have passed which means it's time to continue with the votes.

You'll never believe this outcome, but the winner of the sock vote is......

How could we have predicted this?!

We continue now onto part two of this voting. Which one these calls to you the loudest?
Now keep in mind, colours will vary on the actual socks as I have to adhere to actual thread colours ;)

This voting ends before the last 48h of the campaign!

And now that we have a design chosen, you are now able to pick up the sock add-on for this campaign ;D

You can add this to your cart whenever :]

GO FORTH MY GRASSHOPPERS! FIGHT OVER YOUR MILLIE-SOLDIER!

I have bundled myself up into gear and have prepared the FINAL design of this campaign... the long awaited SOCKS.

Now I remind you again, these socks are made up of bamboo, and the design will be woven in. The fabric is incredible soft and light, great for warmer weathers and a cloud-like feel if you like to be socks out in the house. While these will have strings inside, they will be quite minimal, and so far from my previous designs I have had no snagging.

Onto the design reveal now!

I have prepared THREE whole designs for you all. A millipede, a longhorn beetle (Rosalia alpina) and a dragonfly lounging on some flowers.
The first two designs are on the FRONT of the socks, meanwhile the last is on the sides.

THE POLL WILL HAVE TWO ROUNDS.

The first round, starting today and lasting TWO days, will decide on which design we will go for. The next poll, lasting until the last 48h of the campaign, will decide on the final colours of the sock.

These socks are a complete community poll. Meaning that it votes will be pulled from Backerkit, Instagram, Tiktok, Tumblr, and Discord. So many places so be very vigilant on which winner you would like!

Go forth! Vote! And if you'd like your friends to vote too, then here you'll be able to find all my socials.

And here are the previous three designs if you'd like to see the current range of socks: