Catching up on my Twitter365 roundups — a few weeks ago during the horrors of the bushfires, I my theme was hair. It’s strange how the events unfolding around you seem to reflect in every little thing. I can look at almost every one of these photos now and see fire, smoke and ash.
A couple of weeks ago, Jenny Hart posted a challenge on the Sublime Stitching blog to make a micro-monogrammed cushion. As I was thinking about what thread I could use to make the Smallest Monogram Ever, I figured the finest available was my hair. So I pulled out the longest silver bits* I could find and got started. I was looking at the Coraline film website around the same time, getting inspired and simultaneously freaked out by all the ridiculously tiny knitting. I suddenly knew this had to be a Creepy Coraline Cushion. I like to think she made it from scavenged scraps while locked up by Other Mother.
(For size reference, see my Twitter365 pic from yesterday.)
*Oddly, for a 29 year old, finding hairs that were long enough was much harder than finding silver ones. I think I’m well over 50% grey at this point. Luckily it suits me well — sometimes customers at work ask me how I got my hair to look like this so that they can replicate it… I tell them I grew it.
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