The other day I was talking to someone about what I had decorating my room and they pointed out that I didn't actually like how it was. Which I had known but hadn't really realized. Not really. And that got me thinking that I have a lot of things laying around that I don't really want. You would think that if I didn't want it I'd get rid of it. But a lot of it has sentimental value (with absolutely no practical use) or it is something someone gave me that I feel like I am keeping just to make them happy. Which is extremely silly. But I'm sure a lot of people do this. Anyways, I then knew I had to make a change. One such area was a box in my room collecting dust that contained old pictures and cards. Cards are a tricky thing for me because someone either put time and effort into making it or they wrote a part of their innermost thoughts inside or both. But what do you do with them after you've had them for five or more years?! I'd been hanging on to them because throwing them away felt like throwing someone's love away. But they were just sitting there collecting dust, taking up space and pretty much becoming ruined anyways. So I had to do SOMETHING with them. A lot of the experiences I remember are people being mean to me and I tend to forget that there are those that do care. The words in these cards were proof and I wanted to put them somewhere where I could actually SEE them! So I decided to make them into artwork. I cut out the messages that said nice things about me and decided on how I was going to arrange them on the painting. I wanted to do a sort of pop art comic effect with my face and then all the little messages like word bubbles. I ended up making the shading on my face more realistic. But I made my features extra large: This picture doesn't really do the coloring justice. xD The word bubble effect worked really well: I had originally wanted to outline the bubbles with yarn. But some of the words were just too close to the edge for that. I ended up with a little space above my head so I turned it into more bubbles leading from the "words of love" (wow, that's cheesy...) to a heart above my head to get more of the feeling across: So the whole effect turned out pretty nice. I didn't really plan EXACTLY how I wanted it to look. I just let the ideas come to me as I went. Maybe I'll crochet a nice border for it at some point. =)
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Sometimes when I listen to music I imagine I am a rock star. In reality, while I CAN read music and play an instrument, I just don't have the talent to create it. But that doesn't mean I can't be a CROCHET rock star. Speaking of rock stars, my absolute favorite, Lindsey Stirling, has the cutest hat: I desperately want one. Now I could have just looked it up and bought it somewhere, but I'm a crochet designer!! So I tried designing my own. I had this soft fuzzy yarn called "angel hair" sitting around that I hadn't figured out a use for. It looked kind of like fur... Next, I had to figure out what sort of stitch would add to the furry effect. I settled on this stitch: It's called double loop stitch. I had never done it before so I had to learn how to do it first. But I already had a visual in my head of how I needed to put the pieces together and that helped. Still, when you are making your own pattern from scratch things can get a little...iffy. You don't really have any idea if what you are doing is actually going to work until it's completely finished because you have nothing to go by. Luckily for me, it worked! I still have a few bugs to work out, but I think it came out pretty well.
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