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I’m currently making two plush dolls for a special project, so I thought I’d share some in progress pics and talk about making them. :)

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I think once they have smokey eyes, the dolls really start to come together and their personality starts to show. At this point I'm figuring out what type of lace I'm going to use for the ruffle collar and other lacey accents. Their heads and arms aren't attached yet... I do those last. The white-haired girl's hair buns won't be sewn on until last because her buns sit low on her head, and I need to have room to sew the ruffle collar to her neck first. The ruffle collars are then pre-sewn (so they are nice and ruffly), and ready to be attached to the bodies. In this pic I decided on pink mouths.

Most of these examples are showing the system using a triangular coffer cell but the system is cell-agnostic, meaning whatever cell you want to develop you can. It's currently a hassle to change the cell because there's a lot of re-linking required when you switch things but that should be fixed soon. This system also allows for cells to be switched out at will, so a field of paracells may be comprised of one or more cell types.

An important addition to Paracell v2 is the unit spacing slider seen on the bottom left. This allows the user to effectively adjust the resolution of the cellular array in real time.

Setting up & Getting Ready

Work in progress for a new Clojure t-shirt design.

The quote is from Rich's "Clojure in Depth" tutorial at the 2009 International Lisp Conference.

Thanks to everyone in the Photo Restoration and Colorization Pool who has offered advice on how best to tackle this project. It's coming along fine. This is absolutenly NOT finished yet, so think of it as a work in progress.

dan had some script added to his half sleeve (in progress). i normally hate doing lettering, but this fit real good, and turned out pretty nice (thanks to my amazing sakrosankt rotary). just the background shading left now.

inProgress:

Miguel Gomes

Pattern: Arm Sling, but Toni Carr (#5 Joan of Dark) from Knockdown Knits.

Needles: US 10.5. Coming out a bit big, might have to frog and go down to a 10.

Yarn: Paton Classic Wool, one skein each of Lemongrass and Aquarium.

My mom is having shoulder surgery in late July, and after flipping through this book determined that she required a cute sling cozy for the many weeks she'll be incapacitated and stuck with an ugly arm accessory.

(We have no idea how she hurt her shoulder; it was certainly nothing as badass as roller derby. The family surmises that it was a repetitive strain injury from drinking so much coffee.)

exactly that.

I have to edge everything with extra paper because i am so messy. My working conditions are not ideal - so untidy right now. I need a bigger desk/any desk at all (i am working on the top of my plan drawers)

i'm working on a zero-budget makeover of this closet into a tiny little office.

However, i can't find ANYTHING that will work for brackets for this shelf. It originally went above the clothes rod, but it's too narrow to stay up there. The lights are wound around a re-purposed curtain rod, but that rod won't support the shelf itself.

i'm looking for creative solutions/ideas for brackets - and it has to support my printer/scanner.

I've been using maxwell render for rhino which is an amazing upgrade to my workflow. Since it runs in the background as a render server and the plugin just sends files to the server to be rendered, you can keep modelling while decently-presentable images cook in the background. Keeps a much more aesthetically pleasing trace of the project's development than a set of screenshots-- that's for sure.

As you know, I like to keep myself busy with lots of art projects. So after deciding that my list of things-to-do wasn’t long enough, I decided to embark on a new project. Here is a sneak-peek. What’s it going to be? Don’t worry, everything will be revealed by the end of the week! :)

dan had some script added to his half sleeve (in progress). i normally hate doing lettering, but this fit real good, and turned out pretty nice (thanks to my amazing sakrosankt rotary). just the background shading left now.

I was playing it safe, but the bottom panels were way too big, so they are much more to scale now as shown on the top piece. I still am not pleased how the satin dark edge ended up so puckered. ( This is why I avoid satin, I remember too late. XD )

Sock in progress

All the interior tiles were down at this point, leaving us with the exterior cut tiles to complete the room. From the time we laid the first tile until this stage took about one hour.

This is the first project that I've traded my Superior Drafting Application* for autocad. Not an amazing piece of software, but better than I thought it was. 7 says now till the final review and I am designing bathrooms, re-re-re-configuring cut&fill, just now thinking about elevations and generally doing all the stuff I should have already done.

* Illustrator a.w.e.s.o.m.e.

Finished knitting Andy MacDonald's hat while I was in Florida -- just in time for summer! Oh, well. There will be another winter next year, I'm told. Still need to stitch the lining down and shrink it a bit. The last version was too small, this one is too big. Wah wah.

I'm plugging away on it - it's my lunchtime knitting, for the most part. Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Ravenswood and Gold Hill.

I’m currently making two plush dolls for a special project, so I thought I’d share some in progress pics and talk about making them. :)

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Then I sew everything together that I can with the sewing machine (it makes my life easier!) and I start stuffing body parts.

working on migrating some of my painting/collage sketches into print world... also playing with linocuts for the first time in ages, inspired by another artist I know who has been doing a lot of them of late. So far, I am loving the simplification and additional texture these new prints have. This is turning into an interesting experiment.

grey = kitchen and dining room accent wall.

green = dining room

The grey seems a bit dark for the kitchen.

North-facing view of the kitchen.

Blogged on wonderment 5/12/2009.

Blogged on wonderment 1/15/2010.

I had just put sealer on 1/2 his lower body in this pic, that's why he's drying upside down. ;)

So Becki offered to get me a bunch of dolls on my wishlist if I did a custom Sollux for her so yeah, I hope to do the best one I can for her. Instead of blank red and blue eyes, she wanted them to be a bit more detailed so I decided to paint each eye normally but in shades of their respective eyes rather than sticking to normal colours. I also blushed him with yellow tones but I’m not sure if it’s overdone or not.

On a side note, I have to say I am in love with the CAM Gargoyle sculpt because it has all of these subtle nuances to it and it makes me sad that this set isn’t sold in Australia.

I’ll make him his wig if Becki is happy with him next but until then, enjoy the inprogress pics.

[workshop ref] - Wig after being tapered-cut on the bottom, shraightened & slightly spiked, and hand-colored.