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anagramofbrat) wrote2012-11-18 11:21 pm
anagramofbrat) wrote2012-11-18 11:21 pm
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wellp, 1/25th of the way there...
I have completed row 6.
There's a closeup as well, but honestly it doesn't look like all that much yet. Which is funny for four days of work and 1020 beads put in already. What I'm fascinated by at this stage of the game is that this is a long pattern and something I didn't know would happen is that the tapestry would have a bow to it for the first few rows . you can kinda see it still, how it curves up into a sort of smile? That curve was more pronounced at first, and has gradually come down as more rows get added to stiffen it up. I imagine by row 12 it'll be straight.
Oh by the way, this is the screenie in question. Yeah boyyy, beat that Level 9 Height 5 realness.
four days and six rows in, I find myself reevaluating the scope of this project and the timeframe for it. This thing is HUGE. And a lot of work. And there are several factors at play that I'm discovering have a lot to do with how I will proceed with these sorts of projects in the future. One being a gross underestimation of time. It take on average, a full minute to sew a bead in; there are 170 beads in a single row, which is almost 3 hours right there. Granted I'm a lot faster during long single-color runs; I've gotten down to 34 seconds. But other things get considered, like thread knots or breakage, cats deciding to play with your shit, open bead vials getting knocked over. So yeah... that's a lot of time, and considering how intense I get about projects I'm really excited about, this has the potential to gobble up spare time and life as I know and want it. I've got a life and other projects in the fire, so clearly that won't fly.
The other thing is that this project is murder on my hands. A little under 30 years of typing? Not a problem, but a few weeks of intensive crafting and my hands, specifically my wrists, are not quite being all fuck you, but they're at least mildly grumpy. My hands are my lifeline and my livelihood - my entire skill set is computer based, so I can't afford any sort of major wrist issue. So much as I hate to take this project at any pace but breakneck, I need to set reasonable goals for beading, that'll let me make progress but also allow me time to not destroy myself* and attend to the rest of my life. I really want to say 2 rows per day counts as reasonable, but I did a row and 2/3rds today and I'm sore from the shoulders down, so no. One row per day. No more than two, and don't push it if I'm tired seems like the best policy for this. As it is I'm self-imposing a 24 hour break - not allowed to pick a needle back up until 9pm.
So yeah. at 1 row per day, we're looking at a mid-April completion date at the latest. Yikes. But that way I can bead and not have to shut myself away from Everything Else wanting my attention at the moment. Whew.
Moar pictures in six more rows.
* This does not apply to beading callouses, which are awesome and of which I have several reestablishing themselves up and down my index finger.
There's a closeup as well, but honestly it doesn't look like all that much yet. Which is funny for four days of work and 1020 beads put in already. What I'm fascinated by at this stage of the game is that this is a long pattern and something I didn't know would happen is that the tapestry would have a bow to it for the first few rows . you can kinda see it still, how it curves up into a sort of smile? That curve was more pronounced at first, and has gradually come down as more rows get added to stiffen it up. I imagine by row 12 it'll be straight.
Oh by the way, this is the screenie in question. Yeah boyyy, beat that Level 9 Height 5 realness.
four days and six rows in, I find myself reevaluating the scope of this project and the timeframe for it. This thing is HUGE. And a lot of work. And there are several factors at play that I'm discovering have a lot to do with how I will proceed with these sorts of projects in the future. One being a gross underestimation of time. It take on average, a full minute to sew a bead in; there are 170 beads in a single row, which is almost 3 hours right there. Granted I'm a lot faster during long single-color runs; I've gotten down to 34 seconds. But other things get considered, like thread knots or breakage, cats deciding to play with your shit, open bead vials getting knocked over. So yeah... that's a lot of time, and considering how intense I get about projects I'm really excited about, this has the potential to gobble up spare time and life as I know and want it. I've got a life and other projects in the fire, so clearly that won't fly.
The other thing is that this project is murder on my hands. A little under 30 years of typing? Not a problem, but a few weeks of intensive crafting and my hands, specifically my wrists, are not quite being all fuck you, but they're at least mildly grumpy. My hands are my lifeline and my livelihood - my entire skill set is computer based, so I can't afford any sort of major wrist issue. So much as I hate to take this project at any pace but breakneck, I need to set reasonable goals for beading, that'll let me make progress but also allow me time to not destroy myself* and attend to the rest of my life. I really want to say 2 rows per day counts as reasonable, but I did a row and 2/3rds today and I'm sore from the shoulders down, so no. One row per day. No more than two, and don't push it if I'm tired seems like the best policy for this. As it is I'm self-imposing a 24 hour break - not allowed to pick a needle back up until 9pm.
So yeah. at 1 row per day, we're looking at a mid-April completion date at the latest. Yikes. But that way I can bead and not have to shut myself away from Everything Else wanting my attention at the moment. Whew.
Moar pictures in six more rows.
1020 / 25500
(4%)
(4%)
* This does not apply to beading callouses, which are awesome and of which I have several reestablishing themselves up and down my index finger.
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And the gloves will help keep your circulation up.
Prevention is the best cure!
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