3-D Art

So I'm taking this 3-D Foundations art class, partly because it's a prereq for ceramics classes, partly because it fulfills a GER, and partly because it's as far from mathy as I can get, so it balances out my beginners programming class and my two other math classes.

We're going to have various projects in different mediums, playing with form, dimension, line, volume and so on.

Naturally, I'm trying to turn everything into a knitting project.

The first week of school, we had a one-day project where we had a single sheet of computer paper and we had to make a non-representational sculpture with it.

After folding a fortune teller (remember those?), I fiddled around with cutting and made a little tunnel. But I still had that extra strip of paper that always needs to be cut off when you make fortune tellers. What to do?

I cut the paper into tiny strips and knitted it.

Unfortunately, I hadn't had this planned beforehand, so I had to make do with pencils, but it turned out pretty well. You're going to have to take my word for it, however, as I don't have pictures.

What I do have pictures of is a WIP made entirely out of wire.

Can you tell what it is?

How about a hint:

That, my friends, will soon be a wire replica of the flyer for my spinning wheel.

Needless to say, I'm quite enjoying myself.

Cuba Book Cover

On the eve of the spring semester, it seems fitting to post these pictures of what was my final for my freshman seminar titled "Mapping Cuba."

We were instructed to make a portfolio of work that we had written throughout the class, and add some new elements, including one item in an alternative media, so naturally I went all out, spinning, dyeing and knitting the cover for the portfolio. Pictures follow.

The color changes were a happy accident. The goal was to have one cohesive piece, but when that first piece proved to be too small for the pieces of cardboard I used as backing, I had to improvise, and this was the result.

Happy New Year everyone, and for those of you in college, best of luck this semester.

My Birthday

My family knows me too well.

Is my dorky side showing?

Knitting-related stuff are on their way! Happy New Year everyone!

College Life

What's this? A blog post?

Yes, well, I have a little extra time on this beautiful Saturday morning and I was going onto the blog to look up a pattern I designed ages ago for a scarf for my roommate, and I realized how nice it is to have a record of past projec

ts, because you never know when the information may prove to be useful.

So I'm going to start up again, as often as I can.

We'll just skip the "a lot has happened in the past year and a half, hasn't it?" talk, shall we? I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me just through what becomes relevant. Perhaps this will be my journalling/English practice, seeing as I'm going to be a math major and all--one of life's little ironies that the girl that grew up writing her own novels and practicing journalism would completely switch gears in a manner of m

onths to decide to be a math teacher. We'll see how it all goes.

In the interim, I have a project in the works, and once again, it will get me class credit. I love it when I can stick my yarny self into my academic stuff. It feel

s like I'm taking a study break, but I'm really doing my homework!

Anyway, I dyed some red (pictured below)

and blue (it's drying now) yarn, so that I can knit a miniature Cuban flag. More to come on that.

This post feels incredibly dry, but hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things.

Just a Test

I'm attempting a new way to look at life, as per this quote (compliments of the Internet)

"Life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been a real life, you would have been given instructions on where to go and what to do."

Although I didn't find this quote until after completing this, my mini end-of-the-school-year project kind of reflects these ideas. See this?

It's a mini clothesline!

Up in the tree like this, it looks like a little elf went out to dry her clothes. It made me smile.

I wrote down the pattern for each piece, so I'll see if I can get the pattern out later. All yarn was handspun, including the clothesline itself, which was flax.

I tried to make it chronicle a woman's life, from her birth, to her first prom dress, to her wedding, to the birth of her first child. It's a tad existential, but it seemed appropriate, what with all of the changes going on, college apps and such.