East side, west side...
As many of you on my flist have probably gathered, I love New York.
More specifically, I love turn of the century New York.
So...uh...this was pretty much inevitable, right?
I suppose these count as nos. 9a-9e in my series of stuffed toys.
They're based on turn of the century maps (dated sometime between 1903-1908 is my guess). The changes between these contours and modern-day NYC aren't huge; the most obvious differences would be the absence of the land on which the airports are situated. And of course, there's a lot of license taken here with the coastline, because there's only so much detail you can get when it comes to felt. Happy medium, dear, happy medium...
The reverse sides of the Bronx and Manhattan. Holy smokes, I'd never realized just how fiddly the southeast side of the Bronx is.
"I've a cozy little flat in
What is known as old Manhattan..."
I originally meant to do closeups of each of the other four boroughs, but my camera batteries died on me.
All the boroughs are to scale. Here they are laid out on sheets of pale blue felt.
Cartographic geekery!
ETA: Individual pics of the other boroughs.
The Bronx.
Brooklyn.
Queens narrowly escaped lasting effects from an accidental glue spill (from another project) during construction. Luckily, yours truly noticed it in the nick of time and made a heroic dash for the sink.
Staten Island, a.k.a. Borough of Richmond back in the day.
X-posted to craftgrrl ( here), newyorkers ( here), cute_plush ( here)
More specifically, I love turn of the century New York.
So...uh...this was pretty much inevitable, right?
I suppose these count as nos. 9a-9e in my series of stuffed toys.
They're based on turn of the century maps (dated sometime between 1903-1908 is my guess). The changes between these contours and modern-day NYC aren't huge; the most obvious differences would be the absence of the land on which the airports are situated. And of course, there's a lot of license taken here with the coastline, because there's only so much detail you can get when it comes to felt. Happy medium, dear, happy medium...
The reverse sides of the Bronx and Manhattan. Holy smokes, I'd never realized just how fiddly the southeast side of the Bronx is.
"I've a cozy little flat in
What is known as old Manhattan..."
I originally meant to do closeups of each of the other four boroughs, but my camera batteries died on me.
All the boroughs are to scale. Here they are laid out on sheets of pale blue felt.
Cartographic geekery!
ETA: Individual pics of the other boroughs.
The Bronx.
Brooklyn.
Queens narrowly escaped lasting effects from an accidental glue spill (from another project) during construction. Luckily, yours truly noticed it in the nick of time and made a heroic dash for the sink.
Staten Island, a.k.a. Borough of Richmond back in the day.
X-posted to craftgrrl ( here), newyorkers ( here), cute_plush ( here)