Anyway.... the Halloween thing. About a week ago, I had no idea what I was going to do. I was throwing around ideas... none of which seemed right. Then it hit me.... I've always wanted a Tom Baker scarf (the 4th doctor), and I could put a subtle feminine twist on dressing as him! The only problem.... I was about 6 days away from a friend's Halloween party, and Tom Baker's scarf is ENORMOUS. I'm a pretty constant crocheter, but I KNEW I'd be kicking myself when I got down to one day left and only had about a foot done.... Then I remembered, my mom got me a knitting machine for Christmas last year. I had actually requested it, but when I opened it and found a bunch of small pieces and an (obviously burned) instructional DVD that said not to get started until you've watched the video, I was a little daunted. So, the knitting machine sat quietly for 8 or so months. Well, obviously now I had dire need for it. I sucked it up, watched the video and set the machine up. I ended up spending around 2 hours borderlining tears, because THIS STUPID THING IS BROKEN! But I kept going and finally (for the most part) got it figured out. It's really bad about dropping stitches, and the cartrage gets jammed often (causing even more dropped stitches), but I made it work. I even figured out how to fix the dropped stitches before moving on to the next row. So, after about 3 evening and one killer back-ache later, here it is! I sadly didn't have the patience to finish it. It's currently over 15 feet long, but I stopped a little over half-way through the pattern I found. If I had kept going, I would have had a nearly 30 foot, multi-colored, 60's BBC television inspired scarf that would have wrapped around me 6 times and STILL touched the floor. Instead I only have a 15 foot one that wraps around 3 times and still touches the floor.
Ok enough rambling, here are the pictures!
They're really dark, so it's hard to see the detail. However, you can see in the taller ones how far down it reaches... both sides touch the floor when wrapped loosely around my neck 3 times. Now I just gotta figure out if I can make a hat by tomorrow! :)
So, I'm a really big Edgar Allan Poe fan no matter what the season, however Halloween is the holiday Poe could be most accurately linked to. I painted this wine glass with a simplistic replication of his most common torture-faced portrait. I LOVE the way the light shines through.
More on Poe. This is a set of 4 coasters (I thought I had a picture of all 4 together, but apparently I was wrong).
This lady is the cousin-sister-wife of Edgar Allan Poe... Virginia (or Sissy, as he called her). And you read right... Poe was orphaned at a somewhat young age, and was adopted by his aunt. This aunt had a daughter, which would make her his cousin.... and since the aunt adopted him, it would make her his adopted sister.... and then when she was 13 and he was in his 20's, he married her. Talk about keeping it in the family..... Anyway. Edgar and Virginia were very much in love, and she died at a very young age (If I am correct, I think it was something to the effect of tuberculosis, however it's been a few years since I read the biography). You can definitely read the dispare and sorrow Poe felt from this lost in many of his poems and stories.
Ahh, The Raven. The most well-known work ever to come from the pen of Poe, The Raven is a poem spoken in the first person perspective of a greiving man who has just lost the love of his life, Lenore. He then proceeds to ask the Raven if he will ever see his Lenore again, and as we all know, the Raven tells him "Nevermore". The speaker goes mad speaking with the Raven throughout the course of the poem. I think it's an absolute brilliant work of literature. But then again, Poe was just brilliant all around.
My weird version of his portrait.
Gravestone. It reads: "We loved with a love that was more than love
I, and my Annabel Lee" obviously taken from his work, Annabel Lee.
And back to the Doctor.... I know, weird combo of Doctor who and Edgar Allan Poe. I like diversity though!
Anyway, I have developed a problem where anytime I see a blue rectangle, I want to add the police box banner and little white windows to it. I was bead shopping and came across these beautiful dark blue marbley looking rectangular beads... and I just had to do it. Both sides are painted like the TARDIS.
A closer look.
One with a fancy background...
And here's how they hang! They're a little heavy, but not too bad (I can't wear very heavy dangling earrings, and these don't bother me at all!)
I know that was sort of a random addition to everything, but I just had to fit it in. Hoping to make another pair for etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/springsatori
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