This quarter is unlike last quarter in that we have huge amounts of work to do in studio. This is good and it is super busy-making. I do feel like I'm getting more real portfolio work in this quarter, but also I feel a little overwhelmed and rushed. Between long hours in studio and trying to get the dog enough exercise, I always seem to be running late for something.
Anyway, projects.
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One of our projects this week was a short one: get a plant, and make a container for it that says something about something you learned last quarter. I decided to crochet my holder, because I learned to crochet last quarter, and because it would work well with the plant I got, which was a little pink African violet.
I spent maybe 7 hours on this project, of which one hour was spent trying to figure out how to edge it (I knew what look I wanted, but needed to figure out how to make it happen). I have a lot of the green yarn (Red Heart "Hokey Pokey" in Lime) left over, so maybe I'll make another little basket or holder thing out of it.
Anyway, photos.
Without the plant:
With the plant:
I'm feeling pretty good about this. It may not be as perfect as what other people make, but it's something that makes me happy to look at it, at least until I kill that poor violet through neglect.
Our other project is to build a cardboard boat, which we will race across a pool. If any of your readers want to watch me sink to my watery death surrounded by a bunch of waterlogged cardboard, the race is January 22 in San Luis Obispo, which coincidentally is the day when I wanted to be taking a test to get out of having to take a writing class before I graduate.
Anyway, photos.
Carla sits across from me in the studio. She and I had low blood sugar and had been making and tearing apart little mockup boats (one of which, filled with scraps of cardboard, is in front of me in this photo). Now she feels like her boat mockup is done, and I, well, I don't. (But I have four hours tomorrow morning to work on it.)
Here's the shell of my boat, which is going to be modified to have a fin on the bottom, as soon as I get around to figuring out how to fold it.
And some drawings, and little bits of trying different folding patterns out to make something like the bottom of a boat.
