We’ve made some really neat stuff for the Halifax Crafters Art Harvest.
Dan spend a lot of time gathering sticks, then he sat out back sanding and polishing them. He’s been making headbands from fallen wood which he steams, then carefully bends and ties, and sets aside to dry. The finished product holds it’s headband shape. He also made coils which I used for mobiles.
In the images below I used a small coil of oak, natural cotton, fishing line and an old calender image of a nebula which I reused to make tiny kites.
Making teeny kites is quite simple; cut a square, fold in half from corner to corner then fold the halfs in half towards the crease. You can then fold the top point down to form a fold across the line that the two previous flaps form. It sounds a bit confusing, but I’m sure if you look at the images of the little kites you’ll get it.
The final result were starry little kites hanging from coils of natural wood (photos of the finished product coming soon). I made a second mobile with crocheted pearl cotton, white fleece pods, freshwater pearls and a circlet of maple dan polished smooth and soft. It reminds me the human body and peering through a microscope at cells or pond life.
We also made magnets from old encyclopedia illustrations of pre-historic life. We cut them out, watercoloured them and mounted them on magnet backing with acrylic medium. They are seal so the colour won’t run and will stand up to wear and tear.
