Another great batch of projects, tons of really original stuff and I’m so happy there’s going to be a round two. No whiplash = no “ballerinas dancing with ponies”. I love what Laura has to say about whiplash in her post
” Yarn – and a small rant” .
77 horses to go
I end up liking the horses I make when I’m tired and distracted and don’t really feel like making a horse the best. #22, Lorraine is the beginning of an idea for a new ship. Thanks for the comments on the whiplash ship “Perseverance”. After I clean up the giant ship mess I made this morning, I’m looking forward to checking out all the other final whiplash projects. I’m going to miss the weekly assignment and seeing everybody’s interpretation.
For the final whiplash I made a little ship. She’s fully underway with colors flying. It features the colors that have been on my mind most lately- teal and green.
A really excellent haul today – great sail and bird fabric, fantastic plastic horses
and little dishes to hold all my important little stuff.
I hung two ships with paper skins to dry overnight.
They looked liked creepy cocoons
blowing in the breeze.
Sorry to everybody who has been getting the WordPress error message. It’s a Yahoo problem and I don’t think it’s 100% fixed yet. I spent an hour + on the phone early this morning (again) trying to get it permanently fixed with no success so I’m going to make birds for an hour to restart my day on a happier note.
This little bird looks like she’s saying ” What the fudge Yahoo? Get it together!!
I got pretty derailed today by a variety of really frustrating technical difficulties and didn’t accomplish anything even close to what I had hoped to. When all my technical issues finally got resolved I was distracted by my residual annoyance.
I did get today’s horse and a little ship work done though, I made a couple frames and just now got a layer of paper on one side of each frame.
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I love waking up to a nice dry layer of paper mache.
There have been questions on the particulars of yarn/glue acorn making so here are a couple of tips based on my recent experience:
Wrap the entire balloon with one layer of yarn. For the first layer I thinned the Elmer’s with a little water and painted it onto the balloon, and then the yarn, soaking it completely through. Let that dry over night ( this is by far the hardest part for me).
For the second layer, balloon still in tact, use the glue full strength, painting it on in small sections and pressing the yarn in so the surface stays glue free and pretty. I used a thicker yarn for the cap and green yarn for the bottom. The second layer took most of the day to dry (agony, again, for me).
Here’s the second layer in progress. It’s important that the balloon is still inside because the first layer softens again.
Pop the balloon, separate the sections with an exacto knife, and though it was sturdier than expected I reinforced the inside bottom, top and hinge point with a little wool felt.
And I re- did the sprinkler painting.
