The Purple Thingy

 The Purple Thingy

I want to write down notes about the things I made for the convention. 

Here is the one I am currently calling "The Purple Thingy".

That photo above used AI to turn the background all to black. It's been awhile since I've edited photos. What do people think about manipulating photos like that? 

(This pattern came to an accidental premature end. So no better photos will be forthcoming.)

Here's the original. Not that different:

Well, to be fair, that might not even be the original. I think I took the photo in Microsoft Lens and had it straighten it into a perfect square. (Apparently Lens is being discontinued in favor of something else. I am not happy.)

I was trying to make something else, of course. And in the process started playing with plates with rods on them, and those are really fun!

And then it happened in stages:

With lots of confusion as to what I liked best:

(That last one has some various options going on in there.)

But then I really loved how these curved slopes perfectly fit:

And that's how we got to the end. Still not sure if I like it very well. But I do love how those white curved slopes fit into the circle made by the black plates with rods. And how the purple 1x2 plates fit exactly into the black and white ring of plates. 

My original plan for the convention was just to make little quilt squares, 16x16 each, and hook them all together with pins. Which is why this is on a 16x16 plate. The other quilt squares fit their frames better. For this one, I had to swap out the bricks for some panels in the middle of each side. It still had the side holes to hook to the next quilt square with pins, so I figured it was fine. You can see it here. And how the design stays even when tilted. It helps that everything is two studs deep. Gives it more stability.

Here's the general idea of how the quilt squares were going to fit together:

But then I found out I had to fill up a whole table all by myself, and needed to spread everything out to take up as much space as possible. So here's the final result at the convention:

While I was photographing it after the fact, I had a dumb little moment where I forgot there was a big gap in the back of the patio chair.

Whoops! Rest in peace, purple thingy.