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Post by lyn on Feb 14, 2016 11:21:54 GMT
I prefer the blue one too, I like the definition of the wider channels. I must look out for the chopstick trick. Here it is Judith - Teri posted it in a comment on rosie blog: ...Lately I have been pushing chopsticks into the gap to find out where the channels run but even with that I still find my cutting goes astray...
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Post by lyn on Feb 14, 2016 11:23:47 GMT
I like the blue best but I like the bigger channels. I wonder if leaving the resist in after its cut would work. maybe put your piece in a frame that has glass on both sides or no back and hang it in the window Couldn't leave the clear plastic resist in place Ann because it had buckled during fulling. I like the idea of just a frame so that light can come through.
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Feb 14, 2016 15:49:04 GMT
Cracked mud is one of my favorite surface designs, Lyn, and both of your projects are well done. Really cannot choose a favorite.
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Post by koffipot on Feb 14, 2016 17:05:49 GMT
I prefer the blue one too, I like the definition of the wider channels. I must look out for the chopstick trick. Here it is Judith - Teri posted it in a comment on rosie blog: ...Lately I have been pushing chopsticks into the gap to find out where the channels run but even with that I still find my cutting goes astray... Thanks Lyn, though I can't find the link!! Duh!!
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Post by lyn on Feb 14, 2016 17:20:33 GMT
Here it is Judith - Teri posted it in a comment on rosie blog: ...Lately I have been pushing chopsticks into the gap to find out where the channels run but even with that I still find my cutting goes astray... Thanks Lyn, though I can't find the link!! Duh!! Yer tis Judith - it's a comment at the end of the post: link
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Post by koffipot on Feb 14, 2016 19:03:14 GMT
Thanks Lyn, chopsticks have so many uses! The eating of rice being possibly the least useful.
Gong Hey Fat Choi!
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mwes
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Post by mwes on Feb 14, 2016 19:19:19 GMT
I wanted to use a flat resist in a way that I hadn't done before, so I had a go at 'cracked mud'. Like any technique, practice definitely improves things, so here's my first (left) and my second (right) go at it. (I wrote a blog post detailing my efforts.) This is beautiful! Thanks for the blog post as well. The blue one reminds me of Turquoise.
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Post by zed on Feb 15, 2016 10:55:06 GMT
I like them both. I think once something aquires a name and people try it and there's a common way it is often done, any deviation can seem like it 'didn't work', and it's easy to forget that changing the 'ingredients' or 'method' slightly will alter the results. Maybe you can lay claim to a more delicate decorative version, Lyn, and call it 'cracked dried egg' or whatever the equivalent is in Japanese
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Post by lyn on Feb 15, 2016 12:29:04 GMT
You are quite right Zed - we should celebrate deviations.
Let's call it 'cracked fried egg' - according to google the japanese translation is 'Hibi no haitta medamayaki'
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smiff
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Post by smiff on Feb 15, 2016 21:26:42 GMT
I love using resists but have never used a book resist before, and couldn't quite get my head around it. So I just jumped in with 3 circles of polystyrene underlay sewn together (side plate size). My biggest mistake was not properly counting the layers of felt I put down, so some of the 'leaves' are decidedly thin and the whole thing isn't as strong as I would have liked. When all leaves and outside were covered with what I thought were 4 layers I just rolled the whole thing as normal. The thin areas showed up quickly with the resist poking through so I patched them up and cut the top quite quickly. After fulling the final piece and tucking the poddy bits in I'm quite happy with it, even though I don't know what it is. I am going to practice with different shape resists to see what happens!
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Post by MTRuth on Feb 15, 2016 21:30:51 GMT
Smiff - that is really nice. I like how you poked the pods inward. Such a nice geometric type shape. I look forward to seeing different resist shapes.
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Post by elizabeth on Feb 15, 2016 22:28:12 GMT
Pretty colors, too!. PS. Welcome to the group!
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Post by lyn on Feb 15, 2016 22:48:24 GMT
I love the shape and colours! Super vessel Smiff.
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Post by Pandagirl on Feb 16, 2016 0:26:32 GMT
Great shape and colors!
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Post by halay on Feb 16, 2016 7:02:12 GMT
What interesting shape. Nice colours as well. I think one needs to find a system of remembering where you started adding a new layer so that all come out equal in the end. I have this problem quite often.
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