Here is my entry.
We had 72 hours to create our pieces, which had to meet some specific requirements.
(I got all excited and told Tsuki this was just like a crafting version of "Chopped," to which she responded "chopped what?" Seriously?)
And here is an overly thorough diagram of the requirements I chose.
It was super fun! The short time frame really made me pick an idea and run with it.
(And we all know I tend to wait until the night before a crafty challenge is due anyway...)
Hop on over to her
blog and check out the other crafty little foxes posted there.
{ would you do a Craft Blitz? }
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It's no secret that I'm in love with the open road.
So when
LittleGrayFox offered up her newest Crafty Challenge theme, "someday you'll ache like I ache," my mind immediately heard one word: fernweh.
photo from one of my trips across the country...i no longer recall which one
Fernweh is an old German word, for which there is no direct equivalent in English. When I first discovered it, it was defined:
"a longing for, a desire to return to, a place you've never been."
Wiki has an alternate definition which places it more clearly in the context of this challenge theme:
"an ache for the distance."
So this is where my mind went when the challenge was proposed. I've recently become interested in embroidery, so I decided to attempt to translate the above photograph into a stitched piece.
I left a lot of the details out, and tried to boil the photo down to the just the essence of what Fernweh means to me. A lonely road to nowhere is sort of iconic in my mental encyclopedia.
After stitching, I placed the muslin in a kind of gothic-y frame.
It's a little "emo-crafty" but hey, it seems to work.
Some close ups of the stitchery. I tried to stick to a simple gray scale, which was a bit harder than I'd originally anticipated.
I am SO not a stitch-y expert. I am just really enjoying messing about with embroidery these days.
In the end, it looks a good deal different then the photograph, but hopefully still captures the spirit.
Be sure to visit
LittleGrayFox tomorrow to see all the entries. I am
so curious to see how everyone else intrepreted the challenge.
{ do you ever feel a little 'fernweh' ? }
Thank you to all who submitted photos -- I am soo excited!!
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kelli g. { bug miscellany }
This is the
LittleGrayFox crafty challenge entry for my lovely friend, Monica. She's a brilliant painter, phenomenal photographer, the silliest person I know, and about a flobbity jillion billion times cooler than me
(I was always super jealous of her in college : P).
Her description (so professional):
"3 mini acrylic-on-canvases:
1 4x6 "hello..."
1 4x4 bird on branch
1 4x4 happy snail"
Aren't these three little paintings adorable?!
{ super happy friday of awesomeness!}
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kelli g. { bug miscellany }
We interrupt your regularly scheduled "fashion friday" post, to bring you the results of
LittleGrayFox's Second Crafty Challenge. Visit her
blog to see all the super fun entries!
The theme was "A Little Birdy Told Me..." Here's my entry:
( It basically turned into "Mean Girls: Birdie Edition." )
It's handstitched felt stuffed with fiber fill, some embroidery, and polymer clay leafies. Oh also, you can't tell from the photos, but I ran wire through the branch, so the limbs are pose-able!
I'll be posting an entry for one of my dear pals who's on vacation right now (jealous!), but I'll be back a little later today with a FASHIONy challenge post. : D
{ happy friday, mes amies! }
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