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kareinaSunday evening during our daily yoga routine Crian commented that next weekend is the Tasmanian's Folk Federation Masked Medieval Ball with the band Harlequin http://harlequintas.googlepages.com/home and that masks don't really work with glasses. I pointed out that I'd made him a mask last year which can be worn under glasses, and he said that it looks stupid to put glasses on top. So my mind started thinking of ways to attach a mask to the frame of a pair of glasses. I reminded myself that May is fast approaching, and I'm no where near done with that complete thesis draft I'm meant to have by then, and went to sleep.
Monday I woke up inspired and spent the morning finding images of various leaves on-line and combining them into a design for a mask to be worn over/on glasses, followed by several hours using fusible interfacing to stiffen bits of silk from my fabric collection into leaves of various sorts, followed by yet more hours getting about half of them stitched to a (also stiffened) cotton base before finally going to sleep somewhat later than, perhaps, I should have. Tuesday saw fitting of the frame to his face & glasses, the attachment of rings through which to slide the glasses frame & strings with which to tie it to his head, the attachment of the rest of the leaves, and a few twist-ties stitched behind some of the leaves which needed further stiffening and which he wanted to be able to bed away from his face.
After that was complete, I looked at the calender, and counted just how few weeks there are between now and May, and promptly stayed up late doing uni work!
(note: this sort of account doesn't seem able to add pictures to the journal entries, so I've put the photo of the mask into the user pic)
Monday I woke up inspired and spent the morning finding images of various leaves on-line and combining them into a design for a mask to be worn over/on glasses, followed by several hours using fusible interfacing to stiffen bits of silk from my fabric collection into leaves of various sorts, followed by yet more hours getting about half of them stitched to a (also stiffened) cotton base before finally going to sleep somewhat later than, perhaps, I should have. Tuesday saw fitting of the frame to his face & glasses, the attachment of rings through which to slide the glasses frame & strings with which to tie it to his head, the attachment of the rest of the leaves, and a few twist-ties stitched behind some of the leaves which needed further stiffening and which he wanted to be able to bed away from his face.
After that was complete, I looked at the calender, and counted just how few weeks there are between now and May, and promptly stayed up late doing uni work!
(note: this sort of account doesn't seem able to add pictures to the journal entries, so I've put the photo of the mask into the user pic)