Adventures in String Art

Best intentions don't always work out as planned. I couldn't find a good piece of wood. I went to Bunnings to find some. I was in a giant hardware store and left with no wood. Not wanting to be deterred, I grabbed a cork hotplate from the kitchen. I got out grandma's trusty hammer - the one that should be in a design museum as the handle breaks down into infintestimal bits where screwdrivers of all sizes are tucked away.

The hammer deserves a blog post of it's own. But no, it's lumped in with my first string art failure...

The directions said start with an easy design. Start with a circle. I chose a rather toadstool shaped circle to start.


Then it mentioned something about the number of possibilities of stringing yarn. It listed all sort of techniques - hollow circles, wing weave, varigation. It was all too much to read. I trodded onward and cast the book aside.

An hour and a half later and I've got an unusual stem and the roughings of a mushroom cap. Should it really take this long? Have I gone horribly astray? A bit of shopping and 180 nails later, I'm thinking string art might not be for me...