One Saturday afternoon last month, my friend
Christina asked if I'd help her with a photo project. She needed it for a scholarship for art school. She had an
amazing idea to start with - fabric leading from her sewing machine, spelling out the word 'believe' in the sky. We had only a faint idea of how we were going to make it happen, but armed with this information we hit JoAnn Fabric's, and then Meijer. During our extensive shopping trip we came up with the plan.
We bought a cardboard moving box, which came flat and was about 4'x2'. Christina traced out the word believe in cursive, and we cut it out with x-acto knives. We then spent the next hour or two hand sewing the fabric around the cardboard frame, trying to make it look as natural as possible. Then came the challenging part - hanging the thing up. We tied fishing wire to four points in the word, and used a piece of cardboard to measure the distance the strings would need to be from the ceiling. We wanted the word to trail up to the sky, so the strings toward the end of the word needed to be shorter (duh).
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| the set up |
After that we tacked it to the ceiling with push pins. The cardboard frame was not as sturdy as we had hoped and we had to prop it up in spots with paint brushes and rulers. haha. So anyway, then we shot! These were the two favorites.
extras?
click to see the big versions! :)
It was a heck of a project, and took up our entire day but was well worth it. If only we could have recycled the lettering for another day :( but alas, it was too fragile. but we got some great pictures while it lasted.
hopefully she gets the scholarship. :)
click to see the big versions! :)
