Prompt: August Battle - Meadow/Talk to Aimee
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: Book Jacket
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Brief Description: I spent the first week of August gishing! Lots of fun projects came out of it, as usual. I sewed this little jacket for a literal interpretation of “book jacket.” I’m talking to Aimee the Rogue Quilter, so it’s a sewing project.
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Prompt: August - Meadow - Aimee - Printing the Pattern
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: Debt Gala Dress
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Brief Description: Another gish project. This prompt required us to use old bills and receipts to make a dress for the “Debt Gala” à la the Met Gala.
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Prompt: August - Meadow - Aimee - Stitch Length
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: Celebrity Dress Up
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Brief Description: Yes, more gish. This one wanted us “dressing up” a favorite celebrity using the world around us. I selected one image to represent it here, but it was a video with 50 different pictures like this.
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Prompt: August - Meadow - Aimee - Ironing is Key
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: Our Flag Means Creation
Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: For this gish prompt, we had to create a flag that represented our team. I designed, cut, and sewed it, and really like how it turned out. The letters are iron-on vinyl, everything else is fabric (and the thread on the needle is yarn).
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Prompt: August - Meadow - Aimee - Cutting Rulers
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: Pocket Dress
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Brief Description: Gish wanted a garment made entirely of pockets. My mom and I worked on this one together, but I still did way more than 30 minutes of work on it. The whole dress is just rows of pockets. We filled them with Beanie Babies because it was dumb and funny, and had to show off the pockets somehow.
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Prompt: August - Meadow- Aimee - Batting
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: Everything Bagel
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Brief Description: Again, for gish, they wanted us to bake a bagel and fill it with “everything,” like in the movie Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. I baked a giant bagel from scratch (I was limited to the pot size I had to boil it, or it would have been bigger!). It was just a little under 12" across by the time it was done. I filled it with my favorite things and important people.
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Prompt: Free Range
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: We Create, Therefore We Live
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Brief Description: Last gish thing I’ll submit, though there were definitely some more! We had to use craft supplies and/or other stuff to make this quote.
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Prompt: Research Project
Team: Nurturing Druid
Project Name: Acrylic Panel Collage - Self-Portrait
Project Link: Acrylic Panel Collage
Brief Description: There’s more info in the link. This is my crafty self-portrait for the prize event! It was a beast of an undertaking - much more than I anticipated. It was easily 40 hours of work fussy cutting, arranging (and rearranging, and rearranging, and rearranging) to make the layers effective, and researching WTF I was even trying to do. But, I like it!
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And, here is my crafty character sheet, also for the prize event: