I really want to construct a lightbox for myself. I realize this isn't exactly the hardest thing in the world; there are plenty of DIY tutorials online. For me it's more of a problem of finding time (it's hard to motivate to do anything but knit/crochet on my few precious free moments) and the issue of storage. Where am I going to put a big white box? For obvious reasons I can't exactly leave boxes hanging around the house and expect them to stay nice.
In the meantime, I'm faking the lightbox look at best I can. That picture at the top of the post is of the Empoisonnée sock that I cast on last night. I've admired Yarnissima's sock designs for a long time and I'm glad I'm finally getting around to knitting one. I love that they're mostly toe-up (I like to use ALL the yarns) *and* have roomy, frequently decorative gussets. Those look like some socks that will fit my feet well!
But because the new sock project apparently wasn't enough, I cast on for something else as well. I just had to stop and photograph it in its current state because it's just so cool looking.
I love short rows. That's some pretty bulky yarn. I don't normally work with a lot of bulky yarn; it's hard to design for it well, or at least design something that's to my taste and uses bulky weight yarn. But this project is a cutie, and soon it'll give me another FO to share with you. I realized yesterday that I'm going to need to crank up the crafting output in order to keep this month of blogging interesting.
So how am I getting these nice bright naturally lit shots on a white background, you may be wondering...
Yes that's right. Three pieces of card stock paper, two of which are propped up by empty beer bottles. And you can see the other crap that is littering out dining room table: three bottles of hot sauce (I mean, you must use a hot sauce that is appropriate to the dish, right?), my zoom lens, a pile of dirty cloth napkins ... the usual.
Ha! Love the three jars of hot sauce. You’re a girl after my own heart (well, the beer doesn’t hurt, either!). I love the sock so far. That is some beautiful yarn! Short rows still give me trouble sometimes; I don’t know why. Oh, and I’ve had the same desire for a light box this week.
I can’t exactly leave boxes hanging around the house and expect them to stay nice.
And no explanation. Just a picture of a cat
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I’m pretty impressed with the beer bottle lightbox shots. if you don’t have time to make one, my pop up lightbox tent cost less than £20 from eBay.
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I really love it when you blog every day. Angry/disdainful cats, hot sauce, I can’t wait to see what comes next!
Please also know that I am not being sarcastic. Conveying my actual enthusiasm on the internet is hard.
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heh. i’m always shooting around my piles of clutter, cropping out stuff later too. i like your temporary set up.
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Three bottles of hot sauce, nice. I have given up on lightboxes and just use one of those 4 way reflectors as a background.
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I love Samuel Adams! That makes me so happy to see the empties incorporated into your lightbox!
Every three months or so, I get on a “WE NEED A LIGHTBOX” tirade, and I look at some tutorials and I think about the boxes we get from our grocery deliveries, and I think about stopping at Staples on the way home for supplies, and I think about where we might store such a thing (because while we don’t have pets we do have limited space) and then . . . I don’t ever make it.
the beer bottles are, OBVIOUSLY, key.
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