tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28372728811519662102024-02-07T08:31:13.068+00:00sarah johnstonsarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-1492550806007823172014-04-07T19:39:00.000+01:002014-04-07T19:39:00.173+01:00sock blocking part IVthe finished sock blockers are now ready to shape some socks, see it stage by stage <u><a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/sock-blocking-beats.html" target="_blank">here</a></u>, <u><a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/sock-blocking-part-ii.html" target="_blank">here</a></u> and <u><a href="http://www.essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/sock-blocking-part-iii.html" target="_blank">here</a></u>...<br />
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<br />sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-83393344247623516132014-04-04T19:24:00.000+01:002014-04-04T19:24:00.098+01:00sock blocking part IIII've done the 'filling in' bit for my sock blocker, see earlier posts about them <u><a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/sock-blocking-beats.html" target="_blank">here</a></u> and <u><a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/sock-blocking-part-ii.html" target="_blank">here</a></u>. Now for sealing/waterproofing:<br />
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<br />sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-31604611557180257112014-04-03T17:54:00.000+01:002014-04-03T17:54:41.440+01:00sock blocking part II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Recently I started doing the second design for my pair of sock blockers; the first one is <u><a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/sock-blocking-beats.html" target="_blank">her</a>e.</u> After a lengthy drawing/design process I began burning the outline onto the MDF:</div>
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See part I <u><a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-chairs-part-i.html" target="_blank">here</a></u><br />
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...And now for sanding. Gave my chair (the armless one) a keying, ready for some paint. I chose a garden furniture paint for durability. After sanding the back, I realised the chair had been varnished somewhere in between it's initiation and my purchase of it. It has a quite wonderful shiny brass inlay that had been varnished over:<br />
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I used 'tru oil' on the other chair which preserved the inlay nicely, and made it super shiny too:</div>
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I purchased a couple of second hand chairs many months ago with the intention of restoring/changing them; the armless one for myself, and the carver for my mother. This is a back blog from a few months back. Here they are as bought:</div>
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I began with re-upholstering them. Nice new squarey fabric:</div>
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Then I spent quite a bit of time 'fixing' my chair; in that one of the legs wasn't sitting straight. I took it apart, sanded, glued and re-set it, filled in the holey bits, but now that I've been using it, it's gone back to how it was before, which was a shoogly chair at best.</div>
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Part II <u><a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-chairs-part-ii.html" target="_blank">here</a></u></div>
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<br />sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-88296931945128861582013-09-04T23:25:00.001+01:002013-09-04T23:25:45.667+01:00sock blocking beats!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I have been working on a little drawing/design for some sock blockers, influenced by a combination of pictish carvings and polynesian tattoos. I have just begun to woodburn the design onto the blockers, which I cut and shaped out of MDF:</div>
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The other blocker will feature a different design, I'll update about that soon.sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-11959343524780699662013-05-26T18:26:00.001+01:002013-05-26T18:26:04.256+01:00knitted sock hangerI have a south facing wall which I hesitate to put pictures up on, in case of fading etc., so I decided to make it a feature for my knitted socks, a wall-mounted washing line if you will. I thought dolly pegs would be excellent for this, so I painted a few of them badboys up:<br />
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sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-17332468150638653282013-05-23T20:23:00.001+01:002013-05-23T20:23:05.898+01:00framing/shamingFollowing on from my <a href="http://essjohnston.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/kitchen-decor.html" target="_blank">previous post</a> about frame-making, I bought a band clamp so I could cheaply and easily make some more frames (glass-less, obviously).<br />
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I ended up splitting the corners and re-setting it about three times, trying to get it straight. Also wrecked one of the corners trying to do the job of a rebate plane with a chisel, ha. But I filled it in and it's fine. The whole shitness of the frame correlates with the shabbiness of the painting, yes, that's my statement for that. </div>
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<br />sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-64814763667241136662013-05-23T20:07:00.000+01:002013-05-23T20:39:02.951+01:007-inch vinyl box... that I didn't really make.Been trying to find vinyl storage for a while now, decided to build my own instead, cue the 6mm MDF.<br />
Previously I made a 12-inch vinyl box out of 12mm MDF, glue and nails, but it came out a little... sarah-y, so you won't be seeing it here.<br />
So I came up with a similar design(minus the nails), cut the board, and began glueing:<br />
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After several hours of setting/clamping, it promptly fell apart. I brought in my father to do the job properly:<br />
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IT STAYED TOGETHER. I tried again with the next piece:</div>
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IT FELL APART AGAIN. Feeling like an utter failure at woodwork, I call on my father again:</div>
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PERFECT! So the box became his project after that - dads just know how to make shit out of MDF:<br />
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<br />sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-55790906081504673432013-05-16T21:04:00.000+01:002013-05-16T21:04:43.060+01:00guitar wrecking/restoralhave an old 'checkmate' acoustic/classical style guitar from around 1969 - a Japanese mass produced effort so nothing special. thought I'd make some attempt at customising it/restoring it/could be ruining it forever, ha.<br />
started this on the 16th February 2013, 3 months ago. here's the original:<br />
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that's all for now.sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-24056910701364554132013-05-13T20:44:00.000+01:002013-05-13T20:44:20.124+01:00kitchen decorhaven't updated in a hell of a long time, lost my studio space for a while(about 3 months). back up and running now though. there will probably be some backblog posts as I rediscover stuff I've been working on over the past few months.<br />
so lately I've been making a few simple frames for a couple of 'proper' paintings I did years ago at uni:<br />
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really simple stripwood frames, glued + stapled then glued onto hardboard, painted black and white.<br />
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and so I've twee-ed up the kitchen.sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-5795541425072216372013-02-22T21:47:00.000+00:002013-02-22T21:48:00.003+00:00changed my blog, again.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I have moved/changed my blog that I mentioned in my previous post, as it iz stealings all meh bandwidthz. You can now view it on tumblr at <a href="http://www.theartofsarahjohnston.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">theartofsarahjohnston</a>. It will contain proper art stuffs an that; news, drawings and sculptures, yay!</div>
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<br />sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-14223349122709281532013-02-10T14:27:00.001+00:002013-02-10T14:28:28.740+00:00first post over at my website<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I have begun a new blog over at my website, <a href="http://www.sarahjohnston.net/">www.sarahjohnston.net</a>. It will contain some of my more 'serious' arty concerns; drawings, sculptures and news. Have a wee look an that.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am interested in how things work, how I can modify them to suit. As soon I got an autoharp, I took it apart and fashioned some new chord bars to go in it, which turned out to be very simple. Although after I did this I found out that it was commonplace to change the chord bars in this way! Still, I learned the mechanics of the instrument and I also made it better for my needs.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Making a pedal from scratch is a little trickier though, and will require some help from my electronically minded father. I am hoping to make something a little like this...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> ...which is all jargon to me just now. It will take some time before I have any results to show you, but I may begin by taking apart some old pedals. And seeing as I have never used any pedals before, I will probably buy my 'first' one; this dan electro tremolo pedal which I am assured is quality though it is non expensive:</span></div>
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Been doing some new drawings, so thought I'd snazz up an old vest with one. Wanted to make a high contrast line pattern, white on black. First is my initial drawing, and then the vest, onto which I painted (poorly, haha) with a posca pen dipped in white fabric paint. Most of the fabric paint came off in the wash but it's quite a nice faded grey now, very subtle and lovely. I shall employ the skills of a screenprinter next time.<br />
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Got to thinking that the Glasgow and Edinburgh colleges need to do away with the sub categories in Fine Art and just leave it to the students to label themselves with 'photographer' or 'sculptor' or whatever.<br />
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Xiao Wang - <a href="http://www.xiaostories.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.xiaostories.blogspot.co.uk</a><br />
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Another artist whose pics I couldn't get was Emma Ewan, whose work I found very emotive, and other-worldy. You can see it here - <a href="http://www.emmaewan.com/" target="_blank">www.emmaewan.com</a><br />
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One internet source claims that Alvari was a company popular in the 1930's, but went out of buisness by the 1950's. Another story tells that Alvari instruments are Chinese knock-offs, cheaply made and poor in quality. The Black Diamond Accordion website says that some modern Chinese accordions have bogus Italian sounding names, i.e. anything with an 'i' on the end of it, but that they are still good instruments.<br />
Most worringly, the general internet chatter on forums about Alvari instruments is that they are crap. But I'm still hoping to bring it back to life and get a bit of use out of it, having never played a piano-keyed accordion I'm curious about whether or not I would like to buy a new one. And those badboys don't come cheap! I'd best stick with my little piece of 'junk' for now.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Inspired by Kaffe Fassett's range of Regia sock yarn called <a href="http://www.jannettesrareyarns.co.uk/random-stripe-moor-25158-p.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: #bf9000;">'Moor'</span></a>, I am now knitting up a scarfy/cowl type of thing with it. More photos to follow...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-25944261826485692612011-11-09T19:39:00.000+00:002011-11-09T19:39:00.356+00:00handspun project number 1:So here are the results of the first project made with my own handspun yarn, (the previous post shows the yarn in process) a scarf that can be buttoned up to make a cowl, and a pair of cosy mittens. Not got any work in progress pics, so these'll have to do:<br />
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sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837272881151966210.post-1038262122239229942011-08-11T17:06:00.001+01:002012-01-20T14:00:36.255+00:00new spindlethis is my new spindle, created after the demise of my first spindle, which sadly couldn't handle being dropped repeatedly, though was later fixed. It works surprisingly well for a contraption made up of a few rubber bands, a couple of cds and a piece of dowling rod.<br />
Also a couple of pics of the plying tool and finished yarn.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">So now I officially have letters after my name. Sarah Johnston BA, booyah!</div>sarah johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04910454604602806022noreply@blogger.com0