Yarn!chester Scene Challenge #21
While chatting on the phone with Doctor12am yesterday, he pointed out that I talk/think/write way too much about Supernatural. I did not argue the point. Looking at the past few days' journal entries, which are only SPN, and yarn!chesters at that, sort of illustrates this point. Oh well.
Yesterday's scene actually proved to be slightly challenging, it seems. alocine_89 was the first to guess "Dead Man's blood", which is correct, but it was Caffienekitty who nailed the exact scene as the one in which Sam and John finally have the blow up fight about Sam having left for Stanford, with poor peace-keeping Dean in the background.
This yarn!chester scene:
was inspired by this SPN scene:
The background of the yarn!chester scene gave you nothing with which to work, I realize. By the same token, that scene sort of exemplified, for me at least, the relationship between John and his sons (at least as long as he was alive.)
Today's challenge gives you just as little background material with which to work, but that's actually true to the scene.
(Every time I set up a yarn!chester scene it renews my admiration for the work that the real crew does. I'm not going to the Vancouver convention this month, but I'm sure you all recall how much I wanted to when the set tours were announced. Said set tours have been canceled-- which so totally sucks for the people who were planning on going. Weirdly, I'm really quite disappointed, too, because it makes it that much more unlikely that *I'll* ever see the set. I've said it before and meant it-- I'd rather meet the crew and see the set than meet the actors (*not* that I'd turn down both, but you know what I mean.) Anyway, my sympathy to those who are going but are disappointed in the lack of set tour. And I'll stop this digression now, 'cause I'm rambling. If it helps to contextualize said rambling, it's 1am-- I tend to write these yarn!chester entries before going to bed and post them first thing in the morning (or write them when my cats get me up at 6, so either way you're not exactly getting me at my best!))
Right. Where was I? Oh yes.... today's scene challenge:
(Huh. I think I need to trim the eye-lashes of ami!Sam and ami!Dean 2.1. It seems I got a bit carried away.)
Oh. While I'm here, a quick update on ami!Mary. Man, I should have made a different female character first (one *not* in a lace nightgown) so as not to face all the challenges at once. She's barefoot, which necessitated a different kind of foot and leg, but those are done. Her arms are done, complete with semi-attached sleeves (like the oversleeves of ami!Sam 2.0). She has a head (although it is, like all my yarn!chesters 'til the very last moment, completely bald.) She has a body. Said body, however, will be completely covered because I'm currently working on the nightgown, which is entirely separate (although it will not, once the doll is put together, be removable.) So the nightgown is the current challenge, especially as I get towards the top where I will need to approximate the gathers, the lace and the v-neck. Sigh. Once *that's* complete, that leaves her hair, which is also an unkown at this point since I've never done long hair. I might return to Needle_noodles's method, but the time I tried that, (on ami!Sam 1.0) the hair ended up way too thick once I had the lines close enough to hide the scalp. But the fact that Mary has long hair isn't even the biggest challenge-- it needs to be wavy, too. And I'm having a very difficult time finding an appropriate yarn in a color to approximate blond. The point is, ami!Mary's going to need some more time before her unveiling. (She is currently in 7 separate pieces, after all.)
Lastly, check out this post by anteka. It's a picture of a pile of postcards sent to the SPN production offices-- they're not on the wall yet, apparently because of remodeling. You can see several yarn!chester cards (ami!Sam and ami!Dean beside a strange elephant clock; the two in front of the Belle Grae Inn in Staunton, VA, and, catching the flash of the camera, the two beneath a sign for "Antiques" in Franklin, Tn) if you click on the picture (on the left.) I suspect, from the visible white border, that the rest of the yarn!chester cards are beneath. :)
Yesterday's scene actually proved to be slightly challenging, it seems. alocine_89 was the first to guess "Dead Man's blood", which is correct, but it was Caffienekitty who nailed the exact scene as the one in which Sam and John finally have the blow up fight about Sam having left for Stanford, with poor peace-keeping Dean in the background.
This yarn!chester scene:
was inspired by this SPN scene:
The background of the yarn!chester scene gave you nothing with which to work, I realize. By the same token, that scene sort of exemplified, for me at least, the relationship between John and his sons (at least as long as he was alive.)
Today's challenge gives you just as little background material with which to work, but that's actually true to the scene.
(Every time I set up a yarn!chester scene it renews my admiration for the work that the real crew does. I'm not going to the Vancouver convention this month, but I'm sure you all recall how much I wanted to when the set tours were announced. Said set tours have been canceled-- which so totally sucks for the people who were planning on going. Weirdly, I'm really quite disappointed, too, because it makes it that much more unlikely that *I'll* ever see the set. I've said it before and meant it-- I'd rather meet the crew and see the set than meet the actors (*not* that I'd turn down both, but you know what I mean.) Anyway, my sympathy to those who are going but are disappointed in the lack of set tour. And I'll stop this digression now, 'cause I'm rambling. If it helps to contextualize said rambling, it's 1am-- I tend to write these yarn!chester entries before going to bed and post them first thing in the morning (or write them when my cats get me up at 6, so either way you're not exactly getting me at my best!))
Right. Where was I? Oh yes.... today's scene challenge:
(Huh. I think I need to trim the eye-lashes of ami!Sam and ami!Dean 2.1. It seems I got a bit carried away.)
Oh. While I'm here, a quick update on ami!Mary. Man, I should have made a different female character first (one *not* in a lace nightgown) so as not to face all the challenges at once. She's barefoot, which necessitated a different kind of foot and leg, but those are done. Her arms are done, complete with semi-attached sleeves (like the oversleeves of ami!Sam 2.0). She has a head (although it is, like all my yarn!chesters 'til the very last moment, completely bald.) She has a body. Said body, however, will be completely covered because I'm currently working on the nightgown, which is entirely separate (although it will not, once the doll is put together, be removable.) So the nightgown is the current challenge, especially as I get towards the top where I will need to approximate the gathers, the lace and the v-neck. Sigh. Once *that's* complete, that leaves her hair, which is also an unkown at this point since I've never done long hair. I might return to Needle_noodles's method, but the time I tried that, (on ami!Sam 1.0) the hair ended up way too thick once I had the lines close enough to hide the scalp. But the fact that Mary has long hair isn't even the biggest challenge-- it needs to be wavy, too. And I'm having a very difficult time finding an appropriate yarn in a color to approximate blond. The point is, ami!Mary's going to need some more time before her unveiling. (She is currently in 7 separate pieces, after all.)
Lastly, check out this post by anteka. It's a picture of a pile of postcards sent to the SPN production offices-- they're not on the wall yet, apparently because of remodeling. You can see several yarn!chester cards (ami!Sam and ami!Dean beside a strange elephant clock; the two in front of the Belle Grae Inn in Staunton, VA, and, catching the flash of the camera, the two beneath a sign for "Antiques" in Franklin, Tn) if you click on the picture (on the left.) I suspect, from the visible white border, that the rest of the yarn!chester cards are beneath. :)