city in progress
The very beginning …
I accidentally started to paint a city in photoshop.
The file was created on monday afternoon and have been playing with
it pretty much nonstop since then. My eyes are starting to pixelate everything I see ;)
… and a section of the canvas after about 35 hours of work.
neverending notebook
This is one of those projects that take forever to get done because there are just so many little things required to finish it.
I vectorized some planes and ships in january. Of 2011. Then I wanted to make stamps out of them, but couldn’t find the right carving blocks anywhere. At some point, I made the notebook, but left the block without cover for a few months, because I didn’t have any fabric that felt just right and I had no plane stamps yet.
Somehow, a cover happened when I stumbled across that fun checkered print, but then I forgot about the notebook for another year.
Last month I found the now-acquired-and-already-forgotten carving blocks in my printing box and made a few plane stamps – And yesterday I finished the book.
I love how well the dark teal of the end paper goes with the muted orange. And I really like the little pop of colour the page marker adds.
printing machine
My screen printing machine is now ready to print. I kind of messed up the first screen, but I’m getting there …
At least I made lots of just slightly ugly cephalopods. That’s something?
Also: scissors
wrestling the monster
Or: Hemming 30 metres of tulle while trying not to inflict serious injury.
mask
On a quest to find out how leather masks are crafted …
coronet
This was just a test to see if I could sew a crown-ish piece of accessoire without hand sewing.
I glued grey and the dark blue fabric together using lots of fusible interfacing – the resulting fabric was quite firm and had a bit of body to it, so it was perfect for this project. With a bit of patience (one might call it stubbornness) everything could be sewn with the sewing machine, there’s not a single stitch of handsewing in there!
There is wire enclosed in every seam, which was a pain to sew. But now the coronet has a stiff base with little loops for bobby pins and the tips are bendy, which is a nice touch.
It goes great with my shiny blue antlers and I really love the little golden dots on the pretty blue fabric, printed with some sort of metallic paint. The ornament is an old brooch that my grandmother gave me a few years ago because it’s pin was gone.
