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Various Stages of Making [Arts and Crafts]
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I'm having trouble comprehending how much more there is to go. If I've even done 1% I'd be surprised
Tabletop removed from stand, turned upside down and excess foam trimmed. I've yet to do the corners in this picture. I put a blanket on a table to have a work surface, to not just have the foam and later the billiard cloth straight onto the wood.
First step of the detachable shelf, magnets being superglued onto the table. Later I'll fold the cloth over and staple it down for extra safety. Honestly, the steel grating I bought doesn't really catch these very well, I think there's not enough surface, but I'll try wrapping it with magnetic tape and if that doesn't work, I'll buy a solid steel plate.
With the cloth wrapped up over two sides, just to make sure it was straight. I'm leaving it for now to let the glue set, we'll see if I do anything more to it tonight or if that's a tomorrow job.
Edit: One side stapled, the side with the magnets, the rest I finish tomorrow. Also the magnetic tape helped with the grating, but a couple of extra magnets on the bottom to sandwich it in made it more than good enough for now, so I can check off that one (except for needing to foam and cloth it).
Do you find you have a lot of beads(?) leftover at the end of these, or do they give you just the right amount?
As far as cross stitch, I don't think it would truly work. Even at the highest square count it'd still be pretty discernible that it's two different color threads. Interesting to consider though.
The latter is super easy though, you would just substitute the color the pattern calls for to whatever you want. So instead of x=red, read it as x=blue, that sort of thing .
There are *so* many leftover at the end. There are generally like over a hundred of each colour leftover at the end. I'd guess they're so cheap to make and it would be so annoying to not have enough, that they just say screw the chances, give them more than they could ever need.
One of the colours from the millenium falcon only needed two of the dots. They gave me a hundred and fourty of them.
I think I'm going to try and get a canvas with adhesive on it, and then give all the extras to my kid cousins to make whatever they want.
The art was not at all mine, just various things I could find in high enough rez to make some pretty vectors. Had to do some little things like re-making the red zaku eyes and scopes, and painstakingly cutting out that stupid pink eye glow on the left so I could apply it atop the vector. It's for sure a bit cluttered but I couldn't help myself.
https://imgur.com/Eqh8bsz
https://imgur.com/V6Vg8cl
https://imgur.com/yaHO0Jo
Before I asked this question here I went looking online and did find an artist who uses the principles of cmyk printing in her cross stitch:
http://www.evelinkasikov.com/CMYK-embroidery
That's not exactly what I was looking for but I like playing with color like that, I'd love to see a kit of it!
Of course part of what that artist is doing is ignoring the classic "grid" of cross stitch and I don't even know how to cross stitch the classic way, so I suppose even if a kit of this existed it would bee too advanced for me.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I could only get 170 cm x 100 cm for the cloth, and the table is 70 by 70, so a good deal needed to be trimmed. Pliars are there to yank out errant staples.
Stapled all the way around, additional trimming and the table stand reattached.
Et voila, the finished product. I'll have to come back to how it feels, because right now my hands are pretty numb. Just that spread took some doing.
It doesn't really look like it
Getting pretty tempted to laborious make a PS1/Dreamcast era pet breeder game like ‘Chao Garden’, but for weird jelly palm tree ant things. Just wanted to put this terrible idea out there.
cubivore was my white whale on the gamecube, make roundivore for me. do it for the birb.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But I still needed to make that hold-out shelf. I used the blue felt I ordered earlier and some leftover foam with a steel grate, wrapped with magnetic tape and a couple of magnets glued to the other side. Originally it was covered all the way around with the felt, but it ended up making the whole thing too heavy and it didn't catch the magnets on the bottom of the table all that well. So a little snippy snippy, gluey gluey, and here we are.
And here's how it looks attached to the table. It's almost loaded to capacity here, it can carry four half-dollars, or three near the edge, anything more than that and it snaps off. I've picked up five coins a couple of times now. But I can just pop it on when needed and pop it off again when not and it's for coins or cards or whatever, so it's fine.
Interestingly enough, the colors in the first picture match reality much more than the colors in the second. Second picture, the holdout almost looks the same color as the table and it really isn't (which, perhaps it should have been, but there you go...).
I got better as I went along. Part of me wants to pull out the stitches on the two central leaves to redo them since I know how to make the leaf stitch look like the pictures now, but I don't think I will. If nothing else having my beginning piece look a bit wonky will be a visual reminder of my progress as I get better.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
=/
had to put it away to dry and I'll sand it and repaint it in a few days
stupid wind
My imagination is totally fried though and it's so hard to motivate myself to study references when I can't put together any good ideas of less generic stuff I want to put on a page
I actually learn a lot from trying to break down the poses, and the end result usually looks okay (because I'm cheating, ha). At the very least I get to look at great art that I find inspiring.
I buzzed my hair and then winter showed up. And I have a half finished beanie but then I had a dream the other night and in my dream I designed a shawl and now my brain waves me to focus on that and but the hat
But my head is cold.
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and
I absolutely cannot afford one right now, nor do I have anywhere to put it. But dear god do I want one.
It's a free pattern from Auahatia.
https://ravel.me/ko-taua-tena
Easy introduction to stranded colour work, infinite possibilities. And a good intro to some Te Reo Maori.
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I think there's a some amount off code that is supposed to always work. Let me dig up the podcast I heard that on. (Edit: apparently it's not a code. glowforge.com/fod is the url, but it does apply a code eventually).
Also there's a different company that a hackerspace near me got. I think it was called Muse?
Edit 2: podcast episode if anyone wanted to listen to it. https://www.bantamtools.com/blogs/theedge/dan-shapiro-glowforge-lasercutters-why-we-make
Supply drop for the "infinite glowing forest" project.
Mirrors, clay, lights, plastic plants, moulds, moss/lichen, dye…
This is gonna take some time.
I'm thinking the forest floor should be a mess of roots, so I need to make sure that they tesselate at the mirror interfaces. I should also make a test tree.
Hehehe
Not intentional but I'm leafing it.
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
So I'm no longer stumped.
That happens. Sometimes you just can't see the forest for the trees.
I'd love opinions on a cheap tablet or laptop I could more or less keep in my shop for the sole purpose of viewing pictures of my projects and playing music
see I was very smart and took great pictures of the bandsaw disassembly, but I neglected to realize that my phones screen is all of 5" and my eye sight blows
I've get a bunch more restorations and I'd really like a tablet or preferably a small laptop with wifi that I could use for restoration images, video playback, .pdf viewing, and music
maybe a cheap lenovo or something?
Nothing really compares to an ipad, depending on your ecosystem. Even one a couple years old will trounce most other tablets.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
now begins the hated task of getting the damn blade to track properly
it rides the crown prefectly on the upper wheel, but flits right to the front on the lower wheel
I'd shim it with a washer, but it's already almost as far out as the blade guide will go
I'll get it come hell or high water though
This thing is kinda hard to use accurately
Easier than scissors though I guess
now to wire it and pray the blade tracking isn't donked up
I applaud your perseverence!
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
went through like butter
edit: I put the video on the wrong channel
here is the correct link
@DouglasDanger
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at least if you're lazy and just cut around a template rather than marking lines and cutting on those
mask number three is too big
But hey, hopefully new skills will be learnt.