fingers curled around air
Beautiful origami paper lanterns and other beautiful things I found lately.
Hahahaa if my room mate allows me, this is really something I wanna do in hostel
dead end. reached a dead end with the puzzle idea, could’t find an interesting enough source of content to suit the medium. Started thinking more from the perspective of a consumer and what I would actually be interested in buying. Found some cool diary and calendar ideas which could definitely be explored, particularly liked this sewn calendar.
been toying with the idea of making stuff over the next two months in preparation for entering uni. Did wonder if I should try making my own calender to jot down things since most mass-produced calender diaries don’t quite fulfil their purpose of existence.
Small Museum of Nature and Industry (2010) by Susan Collard
“The smallest book I’ve made to date, this is a little fatter than a perfect cube. Materials include birch aircraft plywood, basswood, slate, various metals, mirrors, linen thread, and a shell. With the title and materials in mind, I tried to make a book with the open-ended complexity of a miniature museum.”
DIY - HOW TO CROCHET A 5-PETAL FLOWER
after failing dramatically when attempting to follow any of the billion “how to crochet a flower” tutorials that exist on the internet, i gave up and made up my own. i apologize in advance if i used the wrong terminology, i am not a pattern-following crocheter, i’m purely a “make it work” kind of girl… so i hope you can follow along : )
first, you should follow this tutorial to crochet a “magic circle” in order to begin. there are lots of videos on making the magic circle so just pick one that you like and get started - it’s incredibly useful! (i use it for these flowers, but also to make ears for other kinds of crocheted hats)
now you can begin with my steps.
MATERIALS: a ball of yarn, an appropriately sized crochet hook (depending on your yarn), scissors *in this tutorial i am using lion brand baby’s first yarn and a size K hook*
- once you’ve started your magic circle, single crochet 13 stitches around the circle (11 if you want a 4 petal flower)
- pull the non-working string to tighten the circle
- chain once into the first single crochet in your circle
- double crochet into the next single crochet in your circle 5 times!
- then, chain once into that same single crochet AND chain once into the next stitch
- double crochet 5 times into the next stitch and follow by chaining once into the same stitch and chaining once into the following stitch
- repeat step 6 three more times to complete the flower, then cut your working yarn and pull both strings through the center of the flower to the back and tie them off together
- now your flower is finished! you can leave it like this if you want!
- or you can attach a hand made pom pom by threading the strings through the flower’s center and tying them all together! (a pom pom tutorial will be
comingsoon! HERE!!!)little Atiqah had this on her hairband just yesterday! Looks really pretty for little girls. (:
Mutant Crabs Showing Up in the Gulf
BP’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be related to the eyeless shrimp, clawless crabs and other deformed animals now found in the Gulf, reported Al Jazeera. Fishers and marine biologists believe tremendous amounts of highly toxic chemicals may have had a negative effect on creatures that are constantly bathed in them, contrary to what BP asserts.
Al Jazeera quoted numerous fisherman who had pulled warped crustaceans from the waters where nearly 5 million barrels of oils spewed forth after the 2010 explosion that cost 11 mens’ lives on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
- “I’ve seen the brown shrimp catch drop by two-thirds, and so far the white shrimp have been wiped out,” Keath Ladner, a seafood processor in Hancock County, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. “The shrimp are immune compromised. We are finding shrimp with tumors on their heads, and are seeing this everyday.”
- Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, found eyeless shrimp and: “We are also finding eyeless crabs, crabs with their shells soft instead of hard, full grown crabs that are one-fifth their normal size, clawless crabs, and crabs with shells that don’t have their usual spikes … they look like they’ve been burned off by chemicals.”
- “We also seeing eyeless fish, and fish lacking even eye-sockets, and fish with lesions, fish without covers over their gills, and others with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills,” Darla Rooks, a lifelong fisherperson from Port Sulfur, Louisiana said.
