cuz I'm air traffic control, bitch!...now go find me some lightsabers.
um...making wax paper lace ruff collar thing with mr. Werner Lewald's personal library stamp...
I am seam ripping a white cotton tshirt to make into a necklace for a jewelry project but really I'm using the project as an excuse for picturing my neighbor's face as the tshirt I'm ripping to threads.
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Here is another piece from 'trash day'. The original material is the plastic yellow box binding wrapper strips...? You can see from the top picture that I started to strip the plastic to get a really weird fuzzy fiber. I then crocheted long lengths with an 11 hook and then doubled them up to make a choker. I also added some pieces of safety glass but not enough for them to be noticed [didn't have time]. I underestimated the time it would take me to crochet plastic thread. I would really like to make this HUGE and not so tight around the neck so the connections I made aren't permanent though I kind of like the clasp I threw together. I'm still not sure about the color; I was thinking of turning it black but everyone liked the yellow...then I was thinking maybe I could figure out a way to dye it and then I was thinking if I got the fiber small enough maybe I could spin it into new thread...but I don't know how to spin very well so...
This was a small 'go pick up some trash and make something for next week' project. so I picked up a tic tac and some wrappers and went from there. The gel capsule has a tiny herkimer crystal that a girl in my class gave me. They're beautiful and I'd really like to work with precious stones in pills in the future projects...we'll see. Painted gold tic tac, bigger cold foiled tic tac, and the one that got a bit munched looking is coated in clippings from a marlboro wrapper. I wasn't sure what to do with them after I had made them so I just presented them in the little tube to let people tap them out...
So this is the giant 25'x25' quilt I and a great group of people helped to make with Allison Smith and it's up in the SFMoMA, for this weekend only I believe, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the museum. I should have taken a picture of the entire room so you could understand the scale and the way everything is situated but...the lanterns on the floor are about to the top of my knees maybe higher and the candle was about my height or maybe 6 ft tall so that makes the mirror maybe the size of the quilt from the center out to the brownish purple pinkish area after the white...maybe? I don't know but everything has been enlarged from what they would normally be manufactured as, if that makes any sense. And the mirror is opposite the quilt so you can see it reflected all psychedelic like and the lanterns were scattered around. There were also a couple of tables and chairs/benches for the lectures and the musicians that would come around later in the evening which I didn't go to unfortunately. So that amazingly gross chartreuse green color? Yeah helped print that [among just one or two others but that one is my favorite] and I could tell you all the colors of diamonds I helped to cut but uh that would be boring. Anyway I had a really great time working with everyone and I am so amazed at the way it turned out [they finished the sewing while I was on winter break so I didn't really know just how big it would be...or how amazing]. Not a big fan of quilts but I'm a fan of history and collaboration so I say success!
