Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Sanity-Crushing Ugliness!

Here he is, in all his plush glory, Cthulhu! And he's sporting beads upon his brow.

Why is Cthulhu being adorned with beads? Because he's (hopefully) going to be my entry in the Ugly Beaded Project contest at the Tahoe Mountain Bead Retreat in October.

When I first heard about the contest, I started thinking. While it's perfectly acceptable to submit something you already have lying around the house, I've only completed one truly ugly necklace (being a perfectionist, I'm quick to stop making something ugly, rather than trying to salvage it), and I have no idea where it was. Besides, it was ugly in a rather unspectacular way.

I didn't want to miss out on the competition, but I also didn't want to make an ugly necklace on purpose -- what a waste of time and materials, since I'd never wear it! But then I thought back to a project I've wanted to do for years -- a fully-beaded plush Cthulhu. Though the plushie itself is pretty cute, Cthulhu is a pretty ugly dude, and while he probably won't be ugly enough to win any sort of prize, he'll be something I'll be happy to have around my house long after the Retreat is over.

So far I've just stitched some matte metallic iris size 15s along his brow line. I tried to continue that down to the eye, but after breaking one needle and bending another, I decided that seam was too tough to sew beads into. Now I'm trying to decide how I want to bead the rest of the head, and what beads I want to use. Definitely lots of greens!

10 comments:

  1. YOU KNOW I'LL LOVE IT NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!

    dot

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  2. Yay, because you're one of my inspirations :D Cthulhu is the evil cousin of your beaded beanies. Watch out, he might try to eat their brains!

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  3. LOL! Okay, but check out King Zenith & his Wizard Philco on my blog. Zenith has a very big stick to beat off uglies with. OR...I just might have to make myself something ugly, big & nasty too!
    dot

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  4. haha, That's great! I love Beadthulu! Do be sure and show it off when it's finished!

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  5. Awww, Cthulhu is a cutie! His eyebrows look super cool - can't wait to see him in his complete beaded glory. :D

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  6. Ok I am SERIOUSLY laughing hard now!

    AJ this is GREAT! I have never seen one of these so its totally new to me.

    I can not wait to see your progress!

    Gee now I am so curious to see what everyone else is doing!

    Pam

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  7. For all that Cthulhu is ugly, that one is cute! ;) The beaded part looks great on it!

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  8. Dot, Zenith and Philco are so awesome! I need to remember to check your blog more often :)

    Thank you everyone for all your positive comments! I'll try to post Beadthulhu updates once or twice a week until he's done.

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  9. Pamela, Cthulhu is a character of H.P. Lovecraft. You can find out about him at The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. Cthulhu is not in all his books, and is much more horrible looking than the plushie, but he still eats brains. He's kind of a mascot of SF fandom.

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  10. Marilee, you rock! I didn't have that link :)

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