For You and Yours

This was for my fiber sculpture class for a project on memories. I decided to work with memories I never had; I never knew my mother's mother or my father's father. So I asked my parents to share some memories of their parents with me because I know nothing of my family's history. I chose my father's memory of his father reading hardbacked books from the library on the beach, smoking non filtered Camel cigarettes. And I also chose my mother's memory of her mother sewing and taking her out of school to go shopping for fabric. The needle is crocheted with 32 gauge silver plated copper wire and the cigarette is crocheted from thick white thread and dark brown hand dyed yarn. Both pieces are to scale of the objects they are imitating. I am hoping to finish a box I started on to keep these pieces together. It will be in the style of a match box but longer and made from layered sewing pattern paper. The top will be embroidered with a cellophane camel from the Camel brand label. I am happy with the way these turned out; both are a bit wonky but I am not that experienced with crochet and especially working with a size 11 hook [tiny!] it was difficult to try and make it exact. Soft sculpture isn't an exact art...it's always a bit lopsided.