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Various Stages of Making [Arts and Crafts]
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It’s the green stuff on a pool table
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I mean I know what it is from context. But seeing green stuff on a pool table versus actually holding the textile, and only the textile, in my hands are different experiences. There are many types of felts you can buy or make. I would be curious to see what other applications you could use this felt for.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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look at this switch! in a porcelain insulator! to the garbage it goes =p
Anyone have any thoughts?
I could try the sort of foliage that model railroad guys use (bit tricky to get ahold of here, but…) but the color range is quite limited and it seems hard to paint.
Also, don't you get a lot of colour already from the lighting?
Afraid it will just look like I've glued cotton balls to everything, but it may be worth a try.
I'm not sure how much color I will get from the light sources. I'll have to wait until further along in the project to see. That could help with the issue, if the "leaves" are white.
Which you can buy, but only in greens and autumn colors. I'm looking for more crazy colors.
But I will be using some plastic plant / aquarium plant parts, yes.
(They're about 6.5 cm (2.5") tall, the queen is 19 cm (7.5") long.)
Workers.
Princess and prince / king.
Queen.
Brief fluff:
Fertile members of the species (princesses, queens, princes, and kings) are non-sapient. You don't need to be able to think when your entire purpose in life is creating eggs non-stop.
Collaboration within a hive is increadibly strong, but competition for rulership can be fierce (though not necessarily violent; that varies from hive to hive). Different hives can collaborate, but the barrier is much stronger.
Their clawed hands are not particularly capable of fine manipulation (but can grasp quite well); their face tentacles are used for that.
just a bit of localized paint removal left and a LOT of sanding left before painting, reassembly, new belt and blade, remounting the motor, new power cord and switch, and adjustments
.... so hopefully by next week it'll be ready!
@Expletive deleted if you check out some youtube videos or making miniature doll houses (i like hanabira), they make polymer clay molds out of the plastic clear clay and then just makes hundreds of little clay leaves.
you might also be able to do confetti?
Or get some green moss from florists or the craft store, cut it up small, mix with glue, etc.
basically, watch folks make miniatures.
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I've been looking up stuff for model railroads, and they're using pre-made tiny leaves of various sorts (in boring colors).
Molds would be too big, I think, but I bought some silicon molds for (what will be giant) leaves (some of the plants are described in the book as more giant flowers than trees, anyway).
I don't know how I'll get confetti to stick realisttically, but that should be easy to color, at least. Bought some crepe paper to try.
Moss is out of season (typically only used for Christmas-themed DIY), but I should be able to get ahold of some online. Wondering how to color it, though.
(I'm very happy for your suggestions; don't take this as me poo-pooing your ideas. It's a bit of a challenging problem.)
Or maybe try some fibre, like for spinning? It wouldn't be individual leaves, but you could get fluffy trees. Or look like willow limbs.
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Food coloring seems good for most things, really, I find that I often just have to look at a bottle and stains appear.
I think these are quite colourful, especially if you also light them up, but maybe not enough?
https://moosartig.de/epages/5dd5755c-a207-4c34-b911-aea7f0b675fa.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/5dd5755c-a207-4c34-b911-aea7f0b675fa/Categories/Selbermoosen_DIY
https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/731842982/dried-natural-reindeer-lichen-aquamarine?ref=landingpage_similar_listing_top-4
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Selection-Hand-Cleaned-voluminous-Decorative-floristry/dp/B07MS9N3P7
https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/639249104/konserviertpink-moos-rosa-moos-moos-wand
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
But I will say that the folks at Woolington were to varying degrees loudly vocal in opposing anti-vax conspiracy and racism, and pro quiltbag+ etc, so if you want another opinion on NZ indie dyers to possibly support:
(facebook then website)
Auahatia website
Dark Harbour
Dye Happy
Good Wool
Heather Weir
Moonrise Yarn Co
Yarn Therapy
I'm glad you are inspired to design!
They just seem really hard to paint is all.
These look great!
The only colors I've seen sold here in Norway are green, white (i.e., uncolored), and black. And getting them from the EU will cost an extra €15 + 25%. Hm…
(If we're pedantic, the linked stuff isn't moss but lichen :P)
Iceland moss has a non-indicative name*; it's a lichen not a moss. And it very clearly is, when you look at the picture. Lichens have a very characteristic look.
You're german, right? Lichen is "flechte" and is a symbiosis between fungus and algae or cyanobacteria; moss is "moose" and is just a type of plant.
* Jellyfish aren't fish, either. Neither are hagfish or crayfish or cuttlefish. And raindeer moss is also a lichen. Isn't English a great and simple language?
Actually, that "Iceland moss" in honovere's links isn't even Iceland moss. Iceland moss looks like this:
What they're selling is Cladonia stellaris (which does not appear to have a common name in English, but is closely related to reindeer moss, both of which are lichens):
Edit: Weirdly enough, I ordered one sheet that was 125 newtons in density, one that was 140N, and in the hand I can't tell the difference, but on the table, one felt just too soft. But it's not the one marked as 125N. Either I'm just weird (not unlikely), or they mislabeled the sheets.
These women are my women.
Bex from Good Wool and I are already plotting together for a project.
And the other ladies are super amazing.
Maree from Skeinz has been s problem for a while, almost a year if not longer. She's pretty well known for her altright lookout on things.
If you or your sister want undyed, natural wool at amazing prices, check out Wild Earth Yarns in Christchurch. It's a small mill, but the prices are amazing and Jacqui is a Queen.
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Oh, sorry. I was unclear. I just wanted to clarify that yes it's not actually moss, but if I want to buy it for models or design work I have to look for "moss" as that's what's sold as for that purpose.
Current household debate is whether Deb from Outlaw is simply unaware, or willing to turn a blind eye, and how should she be informed; she did a pop-up in Wellington last month with Skeinz and Happy-Go-Knitty, and Ethan does not seem the person to brook any altright nonsense. But he's also an employee, not the owner.
afa undyed wool... we have three tubs of it sitting in stages of a suint bath, with... a lot more to process. (https://mkburns.com/fsm/)
But, she also very keenly felt the mosque attacks and seems to be aware of the problems going around.
I don't know much about Ethan, other than he's a tiny celebrity in his own right down here.
Same thing with Helene from HGK. She's been super quiet this last week and I'm just nervous about it all. Because so much of her yarn is in my stash. Same with Yarnfloozy. And they're amazing people and I don't know how much silence is from a business or personal perspective or what.
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Why are you measuring density in newtons? That's a measure of force or weight.
Looks like it's more of a 'hardness' measure IE 'it takes X newtons to compress to Y level'
This and also I'm not measuring it in newtons, the foam place I bought it from is. I'm just working within the system.
I think it was 32 kg and 35 kg? I'm not an experienced foamer.
Don't take this as a critique of you, but that system is increadibly dumb.
It's also non-sensical to measure "density" or "hardness" in kg, since that's a measure of mass.
Let's assume, (imo) on the right side of history. Add potential cognitive dissonance between personal morals and business ethics, because all god's chilluns gotta eat.
But also, if you think you have to do business with a bigot, maybe ... don't. Diversity is good for the bottom line! Literally a bigger pool of customers, and wider perspectives from employees offer potential enhanced innovation! So when possible, support the competition for that bigot or create it, -- it's gonna work out to be better in the long run, and bigots aren't gonna change without some form of impetus.
But it's hard to confront the toxicity of loved ones, and it's something we come to in our own sweet time. And having one's livelihood affected, and employees', would fall into that business ethics dilemma. No ready answers.
We went to the South Island in July, and --when we popped into Outlaw-- met Ethan, who seemed just genuine, kind, and our kind of snarky person along with being a ridiculous knitter. As in, the first person my sister has felt exuded an instant, unquestioned connection from warmth and openness and welcome since moving here in 2017; we had a really wide-ranging and unguarded conversation. Don't know how Deb identifies, but Ethan is in the quiltbag, and I'd hope for real effort in understanding of intersectionality and self awareness, particularly given her post about what a knitter looks like from 2018.
Wait and see, wait and see...
I will probably get back to it some time, but I need to modify the colours and rip out all the sky I've done and redo it, which is just something I cannot be arsed with right now.
It's not a total loss though, because attempting this has introduced me to cross stitch and I learned quite a lot from it (mainly "how to do everything you shouldn't do with your first cross stitch project") and I've got a few other things to do instead.
I just started a new piece from a designer called Long Dog Samplers. They (she, I think it's just one woman) make really detailed patterns and I've been wanting to do since I first started looking at this hobby.
What I've done so far:
And what it should look like at the end:
The patterns are monochrome but I've seen a lot of pictures where people have added their own colours so I'm going to do that. Not sure what colours or where yet, I just want some little bits scattered about. I'm thinking definitely the frog, and the repeating crosses/plants motif along the lines that cross the image, and a couple of other bits. And then I kind of want to make the text rainbow colours?? Not sure why.
What an amazing sampler.
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This one I'm planning to do next, it's about the same size as the one I'm working on.
Then this one which is a tiny bit bigger. I'd probably change the words though, I'm weird about text
And then this one, which is about 25% bigger
I may be getting a little ahead of myself
One was white, the other a bit more yellowy.
Or beyond that if there are patterns that just use unexpected or "unrealistic" colors in their cross stitch. Like making a portrait of some flowers into shades of blue instead of using the reds, browns and greens that would be expected.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
The table.
Glue applied and foam put in place. I didn't want to turn the table upside down, because I didn't want to risk crushing the foam down enough that the top of it somehow got bonded with the glue and I end up with divots. But I did need something to apply fairly consistent pressure for the next, oh, 12 hours.
Thank you, Sir Pterry.