I like the stuff posted so far, especially the knit Cthulhu. I've been reading a Lovecraft collection. It's OK, but the stuff about non-Euclidean geometries that drive men mad isn't scary, maybe because I like M. C. Escher's stuff.
About a year ago, someone was throwing out a piano and left it by the side of the road. Before I could figure out how to get it home, it was ruined by a major rain storm. The owners smashed it up, and I grabbed all the keys I could find in the rubble and have been making things out of them:
Wreath (for lack of a better term):
Faux wind chimes. Instead of each hanging thing being a pipe tuned to a different note, they're the keys corresponding to those notes:
Face (it's straight, the photo is crooked):
A while ago, a forumite named leaf posted an open invitation to stop by her house and learn blacksmithing from her husband and friends. I took her up on the offer and made the traditional first blacksmithing item, a hook:
Midway through making the hook, I noticed that the pointed steel would make a good lawn daart shaft, so I made some of them next. I got a feather duster from the dollar store to make the flights. They work OK, though sometimes they land backwards:
There's shop in my town that makes and sells glass blown objects. They also give lessons, teaching you how to make a paperwieght, Christmas ornament or vase. The paperweight sounded boring, and the vase lesson was $150, so I made an ornament (the orange one):
Every summer there's a Japanese festival in Newport. One year they hade Raku painting, where you decorate pre-made clay bowls with special ink:
Another booth showed you how to made pictures of fish by tracing them onto rice paper with special ink. It looks pretty good, but the photo didn't come out very well:
As I mentioned in the collections thread, I'm a fan of the band Green Jellö. I made their Cowgod character by painting one of those artist's models they sell at craft stores and making a head out of foam and masking tape:
