#the 100 day project

[youremakingmeplush]

My first project completed during The 100 Days Project! I saw this comment in a "vaguely threatening corporate speak" video and couldn't get ot out of my mind. I had to chart it out immediately.

I've decided that (other than this 😅🤞) I'm going to work on WIP from my 100 Days. Hopefully I can work through what I have laying around to make room for other new projects!

[guardevoir]

100 days of art, 45/100 - another fiber arts edition because I spent for-fucking-ever on this today.

But! It's done!

This is a simple plainweave scarf woven from handspun yarn on a rigid heddle loom - a pretty wild mixture of merino, polwarth, silk and yak hair. It's only about 5'4 or 5'5 long because I did a shit job at measuring the warp and it's still looking a little scrungly on the photos because I took them before washing/finishing/blocking the scarf.

The blue is vanishing into the grey a bit too much for my liking, but all in all I'm pretty happy with this; despite the length and despite the colors being on the slightly muted side. My handspun yarn behaved perfectly and was honestly more forgiving than the store-bought stuff I've used, and I got the tension nice and even for the first time, despite warping the loom backwards at first and having to painfully fix my fuck-up.

On the upside, that also allowed me to lash on the warp on both ends instead of tying it, so I had... maybe three or four inches of loom waste on each side, excluding fringe.

But, yeah, project done; now to crank out the next batch of yarn. There's a sample I've been itching to spin, and after that I'm looking at a couple fun bulk projects that I'll enjoy telling y'all about when the time comes.

[lucybellwood]

Day 3:

I can’t remember when I started doing this. Maybe at The People's Yoga sometime in 2016? It doesn’t really matter. It’s been a long time. At the end of many yoga classes there’s a pose called savasana (or Corpse Pose). It’s a long exhale; a moment of integration and deep rest before transitioning off the mat. Many teachers follow it with an invitation to roll over to one side and curl into the fetal position before sitting up.

This part, for me, is often the most valuable moment of my practice. I wrap my left arm around my ribs and squeeze. I reach my right hand up to cup the back of my neck. Sometimes I just rest my fingers there, other times I’ll stroke the short hairs at the base of my skull. I always try to touch myself as gently as possible, like something precious.

If you'd asked me three years ago to identify where my Wise Self lives, this is one of the top three moments I'd think of. She becomes tangible in this position. My hands become her hands. They delight in having found me. They tell me she’s proud of me. They give me permission to rest.

(If you find yourself wanting to make some cards about your own Wise Self, I'm running a supportive container to help a small batch of people do just that. No creative background required, just a willingness to spend some time exploring and playing. Sign up for the $18 tier on my Patreon anytime before August 14th to join us.)

[ninsiana0]

When does the performance end? When am I allowed to rest, to rot?

Day 3/100 #The100DayProject

[andramariestudio]

The 100 Day Project 7/100

Just a few little doodles.

[glimmerbugart]

The #100DayProject Continues

As the #100DayProject continues, I am enjoying my time creating these little cards. Each time I sit down to work on my cards, I am excited to just see what comes out. Some days I’m feeling watercolors, others I’m into pencils. It’s really just what I have on my desk at the moment. But what I love about doing this project is that I haven’t straddled myself with rules or expectations. Just enjoyment. And that’s the best part!

Here are some snippets of my days 38-45. I especially love the colored monster… he’s adorable. When my kids were little, we would draw out similar faces and then swap with each other to add facial features, arms, legs, etc. Then the final person got to color it in. They always loved doing this creative activity. Hey, it’s a snow day today… maybe I can talk them into doing this with me later on!

[ochablooms]

nightcord girls

[coolpurpledudette]

The 100 Day Project Day 13+14

[citroncynique]

The eminent members of Miss Furina's Salon Solitaire

I wanted to try my hand at designing human versions for Furina's little friends/assistants/oomfies, I might develop their personalities further at some point hehe

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[memen18-m5r3]

hello surviving centricide fandom...I bring you some wacky food

(i'm also animating a small portion of Centricide 3.5 but since I can't tell how much more time it's gonna take I'll show you some sneak peeks! :3)

((since I'm a certified yapper, I added some additional info + translations to all the images descriptions! not sure if it qualifies as ID so feel free to add upon it if necessary))

[youremakingmeplush]

I haven't been great at posting my progress, but I'm making progress! I have worked on this every day so far, even if it's only a little.

[guardevoir]

Fiber arts update: I finally finished the accursed yarn for the goddamn weaving project!

(this also counts as 100 days of art, 35/100 on the grounds of fiber arts still being art. I think I deserve that after the annoyance this project put me through so far...)

The white stuff is 50/50 silk/polwarth, the blue stuff is 30/70 silk/merino, and the grey one is 20/20/60 yak hair/silk/polwarth.

The yak hair was lovely to work with, the merino was frankly just a bit boring, and the polwarth/silk was the actual bane of my entire existence for months. I will never manage to un-fuzz my room after the goddamn silk tornado that fiber let loose, and there were a bunch of little silk clumps in there that made the spinning experience just deeply un-fun. Ngl, I never enjoy spinning 50% silk blends, and I do not know why I keep doing it.

(it's silky and shiny and has so much drape, that's why)

Anyway, it's on my loom now:

I was so happy about how well the warping went, until I realized that I did it backwards and spent so very long fixing that. Worked out alright in the end, though.

top-down view (sideways, so I don't stretch your dash more than needed) for a better idea of the colors:

I wish the blue wasn't getting quite so overpowered by the relatively warm grey, but using more exciting colors would've meant using more boring fibers, and in the end I wanted to make it fancy more than I wanted to make it colorful.

I had a pretty difficult call to make with the white weft yarn; that's a 6-ply; I had planned for 4-ply worsted-spun warp and 3-ply woolen-ish weft to account for my habit of long-draw singles always coming out a bit chunkier, but the polwarth/silk didn't quite cooperate and the yarn was generally looking kind of wispy and sad, so I loosely cabled it... which made it chunkier than the other weft yarn, but I just decided to own it. It does add some sorely needed contrast and structure, I think.

[lucybellwood]

Day 6

I was running at the start of the Pandemic—a practice I pursued in secret, just like drawing this card deck. I gave me an outlet. Made me feel capable and proud. But I’m not running now. The subsequent seasons of whiteboard workouts and stationary bicycling and Nike Training App coaching and bedtime yoga and barre classes have all come and gone.

The weight of grief is hard to lift.

I still harbor fantasies of disappearing into the woods for a season and coming back lithe and capable. The kids who went to Junior Lifeguards Camp always seemed to have that experience in the summer. They surfed and ran and swam and returned to school bleached blonde and tan. I mostly spent the summers reading books cover to cover in an afternoon (and then turning back to page one to start them again). I wasn’t sedentary, but exercise scared me. I didn’t want to seem weak. I didn’t want to be seen.

These days I catch myself feeling a sense of urgency and judgement around movement. My body is changing. I struggle against the not liking of it. Tomorrow, I think, I’ll start that HIIT program or follow that YouTube video (but then, inevitably, I do not).

This is when I need this reminder: there is no catapult that can put me back at the level of fitness I had months or years ago. I have to build it. Slowly, slowly.

[sinisterexaggerator]

Reasons to vote for Biden even though he sucks.

In his speech in Detroit last night, President Biden laid out an agenda for the first 100 days of his second term. Among other initiatives it included:

Restoring Roe v. Wade

Signing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act

Expanding Social Security and Medicare

Ending all medical debt

Raising the minimum wage to a living wage

Passing the PRO Act to enable workers to organize

Banning assault weapons

Leading the world on clean energy

Lowering childhood poverty by restoring the child tax credit

$35 insulin cap for all and lowering prescription drug costs

Building more affordable housing

Investing in child care and elder care

Don’t let Trump win. Fuck Project 2025.

[andramariestudio]

The 100 Day Project: Day 3/100

I'm playing a little catch up and posting a few things I have been working on the past few days. Although this one I did do in December or January. I'm hoping to have time for it soon and I really wanted to share it before I paint them all.