Crafting space - hypericumfragile

The time is flying ....
And here it is -  March :)
The month of International Women's Day & St Patrick's Day

march Crafting Space is visiting hypericumfragile

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1.What kinds of crafts do you do?

 
My craft is traditional crochet and knitting. I learned it from my grandmother and mother, who of course treated these tools in the traditional ways, creating sweaters, hats and scarves and sometimes other parts of a warderobe, which during Poland's crisis years served to supplement one's common clothes. 

Nowdays we don't have any problems with getting accessories. Just the opposite: you can very cheaply (I don't know how they do this) buy anything.
When I started my Etsy adventure I had to honestly answer a few questions.

I wondered what I can make the best, what I am a master at, and what I can make so that the object is original and exceptional. As you can see lately I have been making crocheted wrist warmers.

2.Where do you create your works? 

All of my goods I create at home, after my job at the theatre. 

I don't have a special workshop. I also don't have a beautiful niche where all my yarns and fibers are stored, organized according to color. 

My workshop is a single bed on which I sit cross-legged surrounded by a ton of baggies with threads and my most important thing - my laptop, on which, during work I watch movies and shows. 

And that is what I really like: crochet and movies.
On this photo you can see this chaos. It's too bad the picture is not that great, for which I apologize to the readers.

3.What (if anything) in your workspace inspires you?

My laptop and the pages I look at.

4. What kind of materials, tools do you use most often? How do you store them? 

Of course I use knitting needles and crochet hooks. I store them in a cermaic double vase. I also use yarn , mostly cotton, which I store in boxes and on the bed on which I have less and less room to sit.

 

5. How do you organize your workspace? Do you have any organization tip/tool/tricks that can help others improve their workspace? 

Hm… As I already mentioned my workspace is not organized. So if I would give advice it would be your space should be so that you would work most pleasantly, and not so it would look nice on pictures.

6. What is the one favourite thing in your craft room? 

My laptop.

7. If you could change one thing in your craft room what would it be?

House. I'd like to have a house. Right now I live in a rented bachelorette and this is what I would change.

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Behind the Scenes with Hypericumfragile

My adventure with the Popular Theatre began in December 2008. I was working as a graphic designer and art teacher before that. Theater was a big challenge for me, but I can see now I learned how to fit in these new responsibilities and now I can't even imagine another place of employment.

There are several laboratories in The Popular Theatre in Warsaw: sewing, joinery, locksmith, hairdresser and artistic. Each of them have their own assignments before new theatrical performance is launched. I work in a artistic studio, it's the most interesting place, I think. We make props, parts of scenography, visual elements (such as so called. horizons - that is a huge background, which hangs on the back of scene or pictures, which actors see through the windows on the scene).

Artistic studio is a place of greatest chaos and disorder. But this chaos is very creative. My studio is divided into two smaller studios: painting and modeling. I work as a modeler, it's a person who designs props, even those most strange, sometimes funny and sometimes just unimaginable. In my short career I did an enormous amount of counterfeit U.S. dollars, the knife, which should drip three drops of blood (the audience couldn't see these drops, but it helped the actor in his role), I made huge sculptures of Indian gods (polystyrene), a shelf of fake books, and much more...

“Loretta” - I produced thousands of dollars

Sometimes my studio works on very mundane tasks. Please guess who painted all the white walls. Me, by my own hands!

Actually, every day I do something different and it's difficult to remember all my designs. Of course, I don't work alone. My master is Mr. Poldek. Mr. Poldek is retired, but he taught me this extraordinary profession. I would like to give a tribute to this great artist and thank him sincerely for everything.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” – I painted walls in white and produced labels for bottles with medicines for roles of mentally ill people.

"The Sunshine Boys” - Mr. Poldek and me designed this dummy old TV (bottom right)

“Kieszonkowy atlas kobiet” – I painted this dirty wall in the back of scene

My favorite places in the Theatre are costume and prop storage. Imagine, what kind of treasuries are there! I could set up a few vintage shops on Etsy. Unfortunately, I have no photos of my "messy" studio, but I will try to catch up as soon as the renovation of the theater will be over.

Monika

Monika runs two shops on Etsy: hypericumfragile and hypericumhidcote