The 100 Day Project: the beginning

Each day for 100 days, I will try to create a small wearable pin, with a coloured safety pin, and add a haiku to reflect the day's feelings, observations or experiences.

This project began with the idea of using supplies I already had at home and in the quantity to create something for 100 days... so I found 100 coloured safety pins and I have an even larger supply of the luggage tags as I could only purchase them years ago in lots of 500.

I wanted to make something that perhaps could be gifted to friends and family , so as "brooches" have also been on my mind, I thought of "wearable pins." The addition of the little three lined poem, a haiku, was just an idea to fill the space on the tag! I decided on haiku because of the simplicity of its three lines and 5-7-5 syllables formation and the recording of a "moment". Well, I did think it was simple until I tried the first, and found myself counting the syllables over and over again for each line - not as easy as I first thought.However, in this blog, I thought I would share some brief details on each of the 100 pin poems.

Day 1 :

Flashes of loud red
Promise a lunar new year
Now, deathly quiet.

Materials: paper, fabric, threads, safety pin, luggage tag.

Techniques: collage, hand stitching, tassel.

Day 2 :
Inside he's alone
Outside a single leaf falls
Autumn memory
Materials: paper, thread, fabric, coloured pencil, safety pin, luggage tag.
Techniques: photo transfer, machine stitching, stamping and colouring.

Hope you will join me on #The100DayProject here on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays or daily on Facebook or Instagram

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