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How about this: Transparent polymer clay trees, filled with that neon strip thing in white, then the trees painted in translucent paint in various colors.
Or, transparent polymer clay trees, solid, lit from below by rgb leds. (Worried that the light won't travel far up the stem, though.)
Libby from Truly Myrtle.
Alia from The Little Bee
Also apparently Boyland knit works is also a designer to avoid for racism and appropriation.
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That doesn't sound like a bad idea with the led.
I bet you could find a material to make the trees out of that'll diffuse the light throughout really well.
Maybe find someone with an sla printer to do them up in transparent resin for you? I bet that would work. You could even probably paint bark on parts of it and leave cracks where the light will glow through in an eerie way. Though the resin tends to be tinted already so the color of the light will be affected one would assume.
Oh I didn't even realize transparent clay was a thing. That would probably work perfect already. You might just want to get a nice bright LED.
You could prewire the led and sculpt the tree around it with the clay so just the wires are coming out of the bottom?
Edit woops hit quote instead of edit that time. It's really early here.
Easiest would be to sculpt the tree around the led(s) if they're to be lit from inside, yes. Problem is the clay needs baking at 110 C (230 F), and I'm afraid the leds won't survive that.
So alternative is to sculpt them hollow, then jam the leds inside post-baking. (They'll allegedly maintain shape while curing.)
I also saw someone make shapes out of silicone, and jam leds inside that.
I think I'll probably stick with this method, it feels like I'm going quicker even though I'm probably not, and I make fewer mistakes. And I think if I use shorter threads in future it will feel less hectic.
I moved to a different part of the picture to try this technique out, and also to have the thrill of using something other than green, brown, and black. I wanted to get the entire leftmost column done, which I did today.
Another creation done and in place! So many happy plants all over the house
And spent half the evening having my first go at weaving, I needed something to distract me from some work issues. Alas after most of the day staring at the tiniest laptop in all the land and then an evening weaving I am cross-eyed so photos will have to wait till tomorrow.
It's nice to make a thing even if it's really a not-so-useful thing. Interested to try more complicated/capable looms if the bug catches me. Between the laser cutters at work and my new 3D printer at home I can probably do quite a lot.
Tiny looms are great!
I follow a lady on Instagram who has some muscular issues and so she can't use her big floor or table looms any longer.
But she's using a small square loom and using that to make a patchwork vest.
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The world inside the box has to be lighter than the outside for the illusion to work.
Getting my planned glowing forest to stretch for infinity in all directions horizontally seems achievable by this classic method. But how do I extend the forest to infinity vertically?
Placing a mirror at the top and bottom won't do it, because the forest isn't top/bottom symmetric. I could make an infite well top and bottom, but then the forest would have to be darker than the well, which would make the forest lighter than my living room difficult.
I could skip the mirror on the top and bottom, and make the viewing area very small so that the viewer can't see the bottom or top, making it appear to go on for infinity, but then the booknook will have to be very tall or the opening very small. Which I don't like.
As a kit, actually, but the company went bust after a failed KS in 2015. Linky
You'd have to do work to hide the total shape, but it could be neat:
or
The simple geometric shapes are symmetric in all directions. A forest is very much not. (A forest is (roughly) left-right and front-back symmetric, but most definitely not top-down symmetric, which I think is needed for infinite height/depth.)
What do you mean?
I think you're wanting infinite depth of the forest so you don't see the floor or canopy, which yeah. I have no idea how you'd do that.
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Yes, that's what I want.
I… somehow hadn't thought about that. Worried it will look visually boring, though.
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Where does one aquire stickers? Gachapon machines still exist in covid world?
I've got everything but the lower wheel assembly apart now
Craft stores
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
OK I'll help. Buy more patterns now that you have more to work with.
Dollar stores will usually carry them as well.
From these guys (also this one):
https://woodstickers.com/collections/cryptid-creatures/products/customizable-jackalope
Also I need to bend metal for @webguy20 dice display stand thingie, and it's somehow harder than I expected. I almost think I should've used like a rolling machine (which I don't think anyone I know of has one).
I've got a new notebook in which i'm writing down ideas for my own knitwear designs?
what.
How did that happen.
like a switch flipped in my brain as soon as I wasn't feeling like I was under anybody else's wing/pressure? and i'm exploding with ideas?
So yeah. That might be a thing later, who knows.
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Etsy?
I literally just got done buying the last of my thread to finish kitting up all the patterns I have already, and I told myself that's it I'm not buying any more stuff until I finish one of the projects I've started. That lasted about 48 hours.
Thanks. :bro:
I also bought glue and a staple gun, which was an ordeal including the delivery guy delivering the package to the wrong address, taking a picture of the package in front of a door that was clearly not mine, marking it as delivered and then turning off his phone for the rest of the day. I finally got the package when someone a couple of houses down came over all "I apparently got a package with your address on it?". But now I have that, and a couple of different foam densities and a couple of different types of fabric all coming, so I can try out what'll work the best. I hope they all get here in time for it to be a weekend project.
All of my stickers are from Redbubble.
wish list
Steam wishlist
Etsy wishlist
Edit: Here, have some stickers:
Sarah Stern generally does some cutesy sort of stuff, and she has a sticker club you can join where she'll send you stickers every month, if you're a real stickin' fiend.
AcidFacial makes gooey monsters and weird esoterica and such. There's probably some NSFW stuff on their page, so watch out for that.
I could just get some unscored label paper
I've dropped the "infinite height" part; I'll try to go for tall and narrow trees and maybe fit in a tiny human figure in it for comparison. I'm planning a bottom covered with roots and vegetation, and a top of clear starry night sky (as described in the book).
Should be able to get ahold of everything I need the coming week. But I envision a long build time.
* No, I've never heard of hubris. Is it some kind of organic fruit drink?
** LED filaments would probably be best, but then I'd have to wire the whole thing up (and wait two months for the things to be shipped to me from China), so I'll go for pre-wired regular LEDs in a boquet formation.
- Felt (normal, not billiard). Feels a bit rough. Don't like how things slide because of that, but it does point to billiard felt being a workable (but expensive) solution, since it'd be smoother.
- Velour. Feels great one way, not so much the other. Doesn't have much of a visible nap, but sliding coins in the "wrong" direction and they actually catch and stop. It might be because I just have the cloth loosely attached rather than pulled tight, but surprisingly not a fan.
- Corduroy. Speaking of surprises, I got some babycorduroy, very tight weave, Not as soft but the smoothest of the three. I need to try the velour again with the foam and pulled tight, but it's between these two. The hobby-felt is right out.
I also wanted to add a shelf to just act as a hold-out occasionally, but I don't have the space to have something permanent, so the plan right now is to glue magnets to the bottom of the table and then make a shelf out of a steel grid with some foam and just attach it as needed. I went through a couple of ideas, but I like the idea of being able to just pop it on and off.But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
edit: citristrip got it
what a frigging mess
But... like, if I'm gonna go all-out, I might as well go all-out?