Holy pop tab dragons, Batman!

I've now accumulated enough pop tabs that I could probably make something really rad with them. I was thinking, maybe a bag, or a top hat or even a corset... so I looked to Google Images for inspiration, and came across this:

Yes, this amazing dragon sculpture is made entirely of pop tabs and glue. This seriously impressive work of art, entitled Shinkonryuu, was made by OniMushaKid on Deviantart. My mind is blown.

Can tab experiments

As mentioned earlier, I got inspired by The Art of Can Tabistry, and have started collecting can tabs with the hopes that I'll someday have enough to make something awesome like a corset. I got inspired the other day to test out some can weaving patterns, and here are the results.





It doesn't look so hard, though when I get around to trying this for real, I'll likely have one row of tabs facing inward and the other facing outward so that there's no scratchy surfaces.

This is an ex sweater!

It's sad and cathartic when you have to rip apart a sweater... and this weekend, I ripped apart two! There was the previously-mentioned off-the-shoulder top, but also that Candy Apple shrug (Lion Brand pattern, which you need an account for) I'd been working on forever. The former came apart depressingly easily, and for some reason, I thought it would be cool to see if I could wind it into a giant ball. So, folks, this is one crocheted sweater's worth of yarn, next to a pop can for size comparison. It's totally huge and unmanageable.



For the shrug, I separated it into a few balls of a manageable size, but it was much harder to rip apart because that yarn is so darn fuzzy. It feels nice to get rid of that though... I looked at myself in the mirror the last time I tried it on and I decided that I hated the style and how that yarn looked in single crochet using a 7mm hook. Anyway, good riddance. And now, I have all this fuzzy yarn in nice little balls instead of on that big roll...



Notice those can tabs in the background? I got inspired by this blog and will be attempting some can tabistry in the future.