So, if you read the first part of this blog post (Sew, a Needle Pulling Thread), then you’re up to date with our quilting project. For those of you who aren’t, here’s the link: https://www.blog44.ca/willab/2015/12/16/sew-a-needle-pulling-thread/.

So, my quilt square is part of the “Legend of the Polygonians” quilt, and it represents the part of the story where Cordelia (the main character) has started a new life for herself in the Bermuda Triangle. She’s living there happily with Kai the Guy (an explorer who was stranded in a plane crash) and their children. They’ve both adapted to their surroundings. They pass on their virtues and their story to their children, and that story becomes the foundation legend for their society, the Polygonians. The society also worships Poseidon as he caused the events that helped the society to form. My quilt square shows the final scene in the story and not a lot happens, but it symbolizes the beginning for a new, and hopefully better, life for Cordelia and Kai. 

  
As for how my quilt represents this; I took the translation between the story and my quilt square quite literally, so most of it is fairly easy to understand. Cordelia and Kai are pictured in the foreground, Cordelia with a crown, to represent that they rule their society. There is a triangular island in the background, because they are living on an island in the Bermuda Triangle. Poseidon is shown in the air above the society, because he is watching over them. Other Polygonians, drawn in a simpler format than Cordelia and Kai because they play less important roles in the story, are shown speaking about a trident to represent Poseidon (Poseidon carries a trident), with a heart to symbolize that they love and worship him. The heart is blue because Poseidon is the god of the sea.

First Draft of my Quilt Square

So, as part of our unit on civilizations and myths, we have a group project that involves making up a civilization, writing a creation myth, and sewing a quilt.

Yeah, I was a little confused about that last one at first, but after a lesson in interpretation and representation, I think it’s going to be a cool way to wrap up the unit. Each square of the quilt represents one scene from the myth, and then the entire quilt will show the whole myth. So every person in the group created a picture, and we’re turning those into quilt squares now. 

However, before we got to make quilt squares, or even pictures, we had some work to do. The first notes for my group’s myth looked something like this:
   

We had a lot of editing, revising and explaining to do, and a lot of rejections to get through. I would tell you how many, but I lost count somewhere around the billionth. Oh, well– eventually  we got our story straight, so to speak, and were able to move on to working on pictures. The storyboard that finally did get accepted looked like this:
  

Although a lot of the details were lost in the translation during the story’s transformation into pictures, the main storyline is still there, and although the quilt isn’t  finished yet, I have a feeling it’s going to be pretty cool. Speaking of cool, I’m a little chilly– I think I’m going to go curl up with a quilt. 

Toodles!

Recently, our class did a project where we created a series of advertisements. We each made one advertisement for a natural landscape, in my case Depoe Bay, Oregon, one advertisement for a business, for which I advertised a store called Cabela’s, and finally, one advertisement to advocate something, the thing I chose to advocate being lessening noise pollution.

The first ad that I created was the original draft of my Depoe Bay ad. However, upon going to get critique, I was immediately told that it had too much text. I revised the text and changed the layout of the ad, and when I started working on my other two ads, I put far less text in them. I focused more on the visuals for the ads, using my own pictures, and editing them with an app called Snapseed, and the photo editor built into the Photos app.

However, neither of these apps let me go from having photos to having advertisements. To add text, change the layout of my ads and add the clip art in my advocacy ad, I used a whole different series of apps, including Canva, Comic Life and Layout.

If I were going to do this project again, I would probably spend my time more evenly, instead of focusing mostly on one ad, and I would probably have done more background research. Also, I would likely have gotten more help critiquing and revising my ads.

I took this Star Wars quiz today somewhat expecting to be told I was Darth Vader. I’m honestly not sure why; I’m not an evil villain who breathes loudly and dresses in a black cape and mask and has battles with their son all the time.

Probably.

Anyways, I actually ended up as C-3PO, which I’m not excited or disappointed about. The description sort of makes sense in relation to me but not completely. Oh, well. Personality quizzes can’t be exact, I guess…