23 Apr 2011
The first one is a felted tam that started out the size of a large tote bag, so it took a really long time to crochet. It's actually quite pleasing now, but it's just BARELY too small - a cm or two. I can get it on, and so can Wax, but pulling it over the ears is a bit painful, which is obviously undesireable. We both have unusually small heads though. IDK, I may snip the bottom in a few places and crochet-darn-embroider-whatever in the gaps?
The other one said in the pattern that it was supposed to be a sea urchin, but it's more like a sand dollar, as
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pierydys pointed out (you can see better in the other pictures). Forest Tam | Silver Sand Dollar Tamso much facepalm
23 Apr 2011 09:16 pmSo, this is a saga of woes that looks like excuses, but the reason I'm recording it is that it's actually sorta funny. See, when I got my Remix assignment, I was kind of like "Wow, this could be a challenge!" I dove into reading my assignee's works and started a tab stack of remix candidates and I wasn't whisking through it ultra-fast like last time, but on the other hand I was well on schedule. AND THEN.
↵ I started working
↵ Two equally unexpected sudden OS switches: add days' worth of semi-stressful tinkering in trying to get a satisfactory system going again
↵ In the first of these incidents I lost my browser tabs which included the candidates for the remix story
↵ And in all the excitement I actually mostly forgot about Remix until a week ago.
↵ And then I got a cold and was trying to wait to not feel like my brain was warped by a fever.
And suddenly the deadline is like 6am tomorrow and I don't have the links handy to the stories I was considering using, or even remember what all of them are, and none of them were in fandoms I've written in before in any case, and I'm actually still sick. And also supposed to be spending the day in the countryside tomorrow with the in-laws before my seder dinner party on Monday evening.
So I bowed to my better judgment, backed by Wax, and defaulted. Now I'm a bit bummed about the loss of that opportunity though. In a few weeks when I am healthy and my work practice ends I would really have enjoyed the challenge of tackling a new fandom to remix. :s
↵ I started working
↵ Two equally unexpected sudden OS switches: add days' worth of semi-stressful tinkering in trying to get a satisfactory system going again
↵ In the first of these incidents I lost my browser tabs which included the candidates for the remix story
↵ And in all the excitement I actually mostly forgot about Remix until a week ago.
↵ And then I got a cold and was trying to wait to not feel like my brain was warped by a fever.
And suddenly the deadline is like 6am tomorrow and I don't have the links handy to the stories I was considering using, or even remember what all of them are, and none of them were in fandoms I've written in before in any case, and I'm actually still sick. And also supposed to be spending the day in the countryside tomorrow with the in-laws before my seder dinner party on Monday evening.
So I bowed to my better judgment, backed by Wax, and defaulted. Now I'm a bit bummed about the loss of that opportunity though. In a few weeks when I am healthy and my work practice ends I would really have enjoyed the challenge of tackling a new fandom to remix. :s