Crafty Update
Feb. 12th, 2013 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetTrade One: Small scalemate - Complete! I've commented to let trade-ee know that it's done and am just waiting to hear back from them.
Trade Two: Griffin - About 75% complete. I have one wing and the two black parts of the forelegs left to crochet, and the head/neck/body/tail are already assembled. After some thought and trying a crochet mock-up with both pink and light gray, I decided on the latter for the cere. The red eyes look fabulous with the overall coloring.
I anticipate it living in my house for a while, but I'm cool with that. It can keep the other griffins company :P
Commission One: Pigbunny - Commissioner is looking into getting pics for me. I seriously need to start demanding concrete deadlines for stuff, or I'll never get to it. It's almost worse in this case, because Commissioner gave me a down-payment, and apparently unearned revenue makes me itch.
Commission Two: Dobby - Still haven't done anything. I'll be digging through my yarn collection to see if I still have the colors I need this afternoon, though. Hypothetical deadline of March 1st, but no actual deadline given.
Commission Three (!!!): Large brain slug - I don't actually know if I have enough of my preferred green for this, but I know where the pattern is and I've made it before so I'm feeling okay about it. I'm thinking of altering it slightly to just sc around some pipe cleaner for the antenna, but will probably give that some more thought. Also: Yay, felt! Deadline assumed to be March 9th.
Commission Four (!!!!): Gowron!pony - I haven't made a pony in positively ages, so I'm absurdly looking forward to it. The forehead ridges are going to be interesting, but I maintain that I can crochet anything. The Commissioner is going to be making the eyes and cutie mark himself, which lightens the load a bit for me :)
Ship in a Bottle: Despite loads of really amazing spontaneous advice in the comments on my previous post, I went ahead and decided to see what another layer of wax would do :P I figured that since I was probably going to switch bottles anyhow, I may as well make certain my alternate idea wasn't going to work.
And then it did. Second layer of crayon wax poured into the horrible dip from the first layer: Success!(???) It ended up with a tiny dimple in the middle, but compared to the huge funnel from before it's barely even noticeable.
I'm still probably going to try making one with apoxie, see which one I like better (the better to win contests with!), but I'm glad this method maybe sorta works if apoxie turns out to be prohibitively expensive. I mean, it probably won't, and I'm less broke than I might be, but I am still pretty broke, so.
This afternoon I dug through my Sculpy collection (some family member sent me a 30 piece sample pack yeeeeaaaars ago) and it looks like I've got most of the colors I want/need. I do need to pick up some black, though, because I am completely out, and black is kinda vital in this case. I'm planning to get to that this evening, maybe also get those yarn colors for commissions two and three, depending on if I do need them.
The figures will need to be no more than an inch and a half/four centimeters tall and an inch and an eighth/three centimeters wide at their widest point. I feel decent about my ability to pull that off. I do need to look up reference images, though. I'd make a joke about it totally not being a hardship, but for some reason I really do have trouble with this when it comes to live action? DEAR BRAIN, WHAT IS OUR DISCONNECT. Maybe I can muster up the courage to barge into the "official" chat room or something, ask for links. Or dig through the actual official tumblr. IDK, I'll give it some thought.
Trade Two: Griffin - About 75% complete. I have one wing and the two black parts of the forelegs left to crochet, and the head/neck/body/tail are already assembled. After some thought and trying a crochet mock-up with both pink and light gray, I decided on the latter for the cere. The red eyes look fabulous with the overall coloring.
I anticipate it living in my house for a while, but I'm cool with that. It can keep the other griffins company :P
Commission One: Pigbunny - Commissioner is looking into getting pics for me. I seriously need to start demanding concrete deadlines for stuff, or I'll never get to it. It's almost worse in this case, because Commissioner gave me a down-payment, and apparently unearned revenue makes me itch.
Commission Two: Dobby - Still haven't done anything. I'll be digging through my yarn collection to see if I still have the colors I need this afternoon, though. Hypothetical deadline of March 1st, but no actual deadline given.
Commission Three (!!!): Large brain slug - I don't actually know if I have enough of my preferred green for this, but I know where the pattern is and I've made it before so I'm feeling okay about it. I'm thinking of altering it slightly to just sc around some pipe cleaner for the antenna, but will probably give that some more thought. Also: Yay, felt! Deadline assumed to be March 9th.
Commission Four (!!!!): Gowron!pony - I haven't made a pony in positively ages, so I'm absurdly looking forward to it. The forehead ridges are going to be interesting, but I maintain that I can crochet anything. The Commissioner is going to be making the eyes and cutie mark himself, which lightens the load a bit for me :)
Ship in a Bottle: Despite loads of really amazing spontaneous advice in the comments on my previous post, I went ahead and decided to see what another layer of wax would do :P I figured that since I was probably going to switch bottles anyhow, I may as well make certain my alternate idea wasn't going to work.
And then it did. Second layer of crayon wax poured into the horrible dip from the first layer: Success!(???) It ended up with a tiny dimple in the middle, but compared to the huge funnel from before it's barely even noticeable.
I'm still probably going to try making one with apoxie, see which one I like better (the better to win contests with!), but I'm glad this method maybe sorta works if apoxie turns out to be prohibitively expensive. I mean, it probably won't, and I'm less broke than I might be, but I am still pretty broke, so.
This afternoon I dug through my Sculpy collection (some family member sent me a 30 piece sample pack yeeeeaaaars ago) and it looks like I've got most of the colors I want/need. I do need to pick up some black, though, because I am completely out, and black is kinda vital in this case. I'm planning to get to that this evening, maybe also get those yarn colors for commissions two and three, depending on if I do need them.
The figures will need to be no more than an inch and a half/four centimeters tall and an inch and an eighth/three centimeters wide at their widest point. I feel decent about my ability to pull that off. I do need to look up reference images, though. I'd make a joke about it totally not being a hardship, but for some reason I really do have trouble with this when it comes to live action? DEAR BRAIN, WHAT IS OUR DISCONNECT. Maybe I can muster up the courage to barge into the "official" chat room or something, ask for links. Or dig through the actual official tumblr. IDK, I'll give it some thought.
