Post your projects with the following header:
Prompt: (Write the name of the prompt you are entering your craft for here. Don’t forget to include the month!)
Team: (Choose one of three, listed below)
Project Name: (Name your craft anything you like; fanciful titles or simple labels/descriptions are all fine)
Project Link: (Paste the link to your community post for the bonus points)
Brief Description: (Tell us anything you’d like to about the craft, such as how you made it, and why it fits the prompt.)
Project Photo(s): (Post photos of your awesome craft here, so we can ooh and aah over it!)
PLEASE NOTE - for each month, you will select ONE set of the 5 prompts, the battle is the same for everyone!
JULY - Choice One: How Will You Investigate? (Search Online OR Search Around Town)
July Battle: Nature vs. Technology
Search Online
You boot up the ancient computer in the activity building and try to connect to the internet, hoping to research the local wildlife. Instead of taking you to the URL you’re entering, other websites keep loading. Odd websites. Almost like you’re connected to an old version of the internet. What is happening?
- Geocities. A weird fanpage for obscure media hangs like you’re on a 56k dial-up modem. Craft an item that is from a fandom you like, uses a website to help you make (tutorial or pattern), is brightly colored, or uses bits of old electronics to make.
- Pets .com. Like an echo of the dot com crash, the website flashes on the screen and briefly loads before you get a [404]. Craft an item for a pet, that is fuzzy (or scaly or feathery), is a puppet or a sock or made from a sock (remember the Pets .com sock puppet?), or is white/black/brown.
- Napster. It’s uncertain if that download that started is actually “Werewolves of London” or a computer virus, but it doesn’t matter because the computer crashes before it can finish. Craft something inspired by your favorite song, is blue or green, or is slightly shady…
- Yahoo Groups. Even the juiciest message board drama had nothing on Yahoo Groups, and your heart rate increases significantly as a knitting group opens and the first words you see are “UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE.” Craft an item that you make with a friend/group, is involved in some sort of drama (either the pattern or pattern creator or item it makes), or is red.
- Ask Jeeves. Nine minutes later, the page finally loads. At least it’s a search engine! You try to type in “local wildlife” but the screen flickers three times before finally loading the URL you were trying all along. The internet starts working normally, as if nothing happened. Craft an item you got help with, that is for the house/garden, is striped, or is black/white.
You learned about birds, bears, bugs, and beasts of all kinds. But nothing that seems like it would growl like that.
Search Around Town
You head into town to see if anyone there knows anything about the history of the campgrounds. You can’t find many folks to talk to, but the server at the local diner suggests you check out the visitor’s center around the block. You must have taken a wrong turn, though, because you end up at an empty mini mall. You decide to look around anyway.
- Blockbuster. It smells like moth balls and nostalgia here! The walls are lined with empty movie cases and dusty posters. Craft something inspired by your favorite movie, that you had to check out/borrow something to make (book from the library, items from a friend), or that is blue.
- Borders. Man, you wish these shelves were still filled with books! You’d be set for summer reading. But instead they’re just filled with uncanny vibes. Craft something based on your favorite book, that is made of paper or uses words, or is black.
- Sports Authority. There’s a jersey on the floor for a player you’ve never heard of, and a lone life-sized cardboard cutout in the corner trying to jump scare you. Craft something based on your favorite sport, that is to be used outside, is made of natural materials, or is green.
- RadioShack. The dare devil in you wants to shimmy through the broken window, just to see what’s inside, but the last thing you need is a trip to the infirmary. Plus the radio static that sounds like it’s coming from the backroom is unsettling enough to get you scurrying on your way. Craft something that uses electronics/technology to make, uses a small, obscure, hard-to-find supply, is for the house, or is red.
- ToysRUs. This place is so big! You were shorter than the counter the last time you remember stepping foot in a toy store like this. Too bad it looks like some kids have raided the place and the only things left are boxes, leaves, and graffiti. Craft something for a kid (or a kid at heart), that doesn’t serve a purpose (other than fun/play), is new to you to make, or is multi-colored.
After splunking through the abandoned mall you eventually find your way to the visitor center. [Take a look around]
