Shoddy, part 2
I'm fixing the Madewell sweater that was absolutely covered in pills the very first time I wore it (see yesterday's post), & responding to some things that came up in comments on the instagram post. After a solid hour going over the sweater with my Gleener I got a pile of fluff the size of my fist (you can watch me do some of that here should you be so inclined). And it looks less bad. Not great! Not new! But about how I expect a sweater to look after a few seasons of regular wear. If I didn't know [...]
Variations 3
Did I plan on admitting right out in public just how easy it is to delight me by...checks notes...providing me with slightly different colors of highly specialized paper and then leaving me alone with a paper cutter and bone folder for a couple hours? I mean no. But if you've been here for a bit, you're probably not exactly surprised by this sort of nonsense. This (colorful picture) is star D from the book with the bottom folded up at a slightly different point and put together following the wide lines on the assembly guide. The white [...]
Shoddy
This is what happened to my Madewell sweater after I wore it ONCE. One single wear and it's so covered in pills that it looks like trash (you can see it in a video over on instagram if you want to watch me flop it around while describing its faults). I suspect this is because they made it out of what they call (Re)sourced Cashmere. They don't give a lot of information on what that actually means. It seems to be mostly of a marketing term meant to make you feel like you're being environmentally responsible by buying poorly made [...]
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.
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