Variations 2
Am I going to go through these in rainbow order because the whole point of this exercise is to soothe my soul (and play with pretty paper) and rainbows are soothing? Yup, yup I am. Did I have the forethought to fold through the stars in the book in rainbow order such that star A would be in the first color and star B in the second and so on? No, no I absolutely did not. And now you must all live with my failings. This (colorful picture) is star H from the book, made with slightly wider paper, [...]
Variations 1
Remember how I said I found paper in other colors? And how I said one of my favorite things about the stars is how much they change if you make even the tiniest little changes to how you fold the pieces and put them together? And how I said folding these is one of the most soothing things my brain knows how to do? Yeah. Well, so the natural consequence of that is me deciding to fold all the stars from the book in the new paper over the course of the day, each with some sort of tiny variation, [...]
Spiffy
Remember how I said I was excited to have found the spiffy paper you need for these in some more delicate colors? Yeeeeeeeah, well the natural thing to do after finding that was to go ahead and fold through the whole star book (with some variations because we all know I'm not naturally inclined to make the same thing over and over again when the opportunity to experiment presents itself). I'll go through the variations on posts over the next few days in case you really really really want to know (I sort of suspect you don't, that would [...]
You made it
You made it! You made it all the way to the end of 2022. I'm proud of you. I'm glad you made it. I hope next year is better. And if you want to spend the last few minutes of the screaming into the void and flailing about? Well, both I and our little snow buddy here totally understand. Here's to better days to come.
Unwieldy
So here's the thing...you *can* do this with any even number of colors. This is six colors (the two previous posts show four colors and two colors). It becomes wildly unwieldy to do it with any more than six, but you can. And I might possibly have spent an entire afternoon completely hyperfocused on sorting out how you'd do it with any arbitrary even number of colors, just because my brain was not going to hush until I did. Because sometimes brains are like that, and there's not much to be done about it. But good sense dictates that [...]
Options
Again...I *fully* get that this is, um, let us say a bit of a variation from my usual color vibe. But these are some of the instructional swatches for the spiffy bonus version of the embroidery instructions on the upcoming hat. This is the four color variation (the post yesterday showed the two color variation). And oh, oh it's rather fun to play around with all these different options. The hardest bit is stopping at some reasonable point and not letting my imagination run completely away with me.
Different vibe
Ok yeah, I think that will work out nicely for the 'how to do the embroidery' part of the next new pattern! I've been having fun working out how I want to do instructional bits, because it's quite different from how I do the actual piece I show in the pattern. For pattern photos, I tend to go for 'let's make this as pretty as possible, let's maximize the vibe, let's go aim for something kinda dreamy.' For the instructional stuff, I want everything to be as clear as possible, doesn't tend to have *quite* the same dreamy vibe, [...]
You’ve got this
You made it! If christmas is hard for you, if you're reading this, you made it. It's over for another year. If your nights have been getting ever longer, if you're reading this, you made it. The nights start getting shorter from here on out. If this year has been a kick in the teeth, if you're reading this, you've almost made it. Just a couple more days to go until you can officially say you survived and tell 2022 to suck it. You can do it, I have faith in you. I continue to be but a figment of [...]
We made it
We made it to the solstice! The days start getting longer from here on out*. I'll be making a few little pretties to celebrate. And you know how I was saying the other day that I was bummed that the fancy paper for these only came in a really limited range of colors? Yeeeeeeeah...I found some other paper. Paper in more colors. Paper in better colors. Paper in freaking gradients that fill my soul with joy and stave off despair for long enough to make it through one more day. I do not, alas, have a good generally available source [...]
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