Assorted Art Activities

in which our plucky heroine...

well it was too good to last, and now am stuck in New Version Blogger hell. So  many of the functions I used all the time are gone. Hopefully I can still put a post together, but everything takes twice as long, as I need to constantly toggle into the HTML, and the whole process is pretty buggy.

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~ 100 day creativity challenge - day 48 ~

I remembered, years ago, seeing Tiny Owl Knits "Deer With Tiny Antlers" hat on Ravelry, which seemed to fit both with the overarching theme of the "New Adventure Challenge" in Tiny Rag Doll World as well as with this week's theme "hat or headgear"... but I have no desire to handknit any more than necessary at a 1:12 scale. I am no Althea Crome. It did occur to me that creating a variation on the free hat pattern from Ann Wood, and combining it with some Sally Mavor techniques, would be a fun approach. First off I needed to make some tiny antlers, as that would affect the shape and fit of any little hat that included them:

Well, it all looks a lot easier when the expert does it, but I was able to get the basic effect I hoped for, and the next part will be figuring out how to attach the little wire rack of antlers to a felt hat, and create all the other details (like ears)... stay tuned!

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I may have solved the blockprinting issues, by changing back to the former ink. Before Tamra gave me some actual block printing ink, I was using my fabric ink, which is oil based (but water cleanup) and was getting good results. The water based ink behaved poorly, and switching back gave me a dozen good prints. They need to cure for a few days, and then hopefully a few will find new homes. Must needs do some research to find out if there are other oil-based water-clean-up block printing inks, as apparently oil based ink just plain works better...

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September SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	Gwen sunhat	x	old underwindow
2	dozen EQUITY prints	x	dead cold-packs
3	x	x	-
4	x	x	-
5	x	x	-
6	x	x	-
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x
10	x	x	x
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude - Zoom however frustrating, is better than never seeing family members again...