Soooo…kits?
Right. You know how every year I make stars. And every year I say 'oh, if only the paper came in prettier colors.' But not this year. This year I FOUND the paper in prettier colors. Yes it's ungodly expensive, yes you have to import it, in bulk, from overseas. But ya know...that's something I'm good at. So I was thinking what if we did kits...what if we did little kits with everything you needed to make either 6 or 12 of these stars (the paper, plus a bit extra for practice, stickers for assembling them, dots for hanging them, [...]
Completely Batty
Ok, we are going to do this, and we are going to do this on speed racer mode. Because I have just completely hyperfocused on these guys for the last few days. And that means either I push through and get them out now, before the fixation wanes...or I shove them in the doom bins and 50/50 if I ever think of them again. (Yes, I know my brain. No, that doesn't mean I'm in charge of it. But it does help me work around its stranger proclivities.) So, we are going to do The Fastest Test Ever. As in, [...]
Flap
Ahem. Again. An undeniable lapse in judgement. And yes, probably several of them, as both the peg dolls and the various wing bits were all pulled from the depths of the office closet. I have a very well-equipped closet. Now the real question is, do I hurry and get these out late this month? Or do I tuck them away and have them come out next year? If I wait till next year, I'll likely do a knitted version of the wings as well. If I do them this year, we'll go with the felt (or cork, or vinyl, or [...]
Lapse
I...I have had a lapse in discretion. Probably several, given that I had the peg dolls on hand already. And the felt. The felt which is not yet present in this image, but which will be making an appearance shortly. Because things are going to get significantly more absurd in just a moment.
Oh yes
Ahem. Yes. Yes this works. Yes I have plans for this. Yes I shall be posting more about it soon. Once I'm out of the frenzied experimentation phase.
New toy
I have a new toy. Which means I am likely to be a menace to myself and others.
Grounding
These are called Grounding, and they're out on both ravelry and payhip. You can use the code SLIPPERS for 15% off in either place through the end of the week. Or, if you're a Rampant Nonsense member on Patreon, you get this pattern and a bunch of others included with your membership. There's a whole list of them! These are just fun to put together. They start at the center back of the heel with a double sided cast on. You work flat until your fabric is long enough to meet in front of your ankle, then you start working in [...]
Ooooh, colors!
And here's how the natural dyeing experiments came out! From top to bottom we have logwood, cochineal, madder, and osage. These are 100% cotton napkins. First I soaked them with galnut powder for tannin, then with alum for a mordant. While that was happening, I turned the various powdery bits (cochineal in that front bowl, osage on the back left, logwood on the back right, madder not pictured) into dyes. Then the fabric went in the dyes. This was...not a quick process. It took intermittent attention over the course of a long weekend. That's in part because I have a [...]
Insufficient oversight
I mean...there's no reason you can't decide to knit a little jellyfish. And then use an air plant for its tentacles. And then suspend several of them from a piece of driftwood somewhere in your house. No really, there is no oversight. Absolutely no one will stop you from doing this. There is, in fact, at least one person who will entice you to do this very thing. I can say that with certainty. For I am that person. All you need to do is track down the air plant...you know, in case this is the sort of thing you [...]
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