Are you sick of my application woes/indecisiveness yet?

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

I know I am.

Question:
What is it called when people make their own sewing patterns? Let's say, in a wildly hypothetical fashion, that I made my own patterns for my little stuffed animal creatures rather than using somebody else's, how do I say that on I dunno.. maybe the description for my image list? I mean, somebody has to create the patterns that you buy at the store, right? So, what is that job called? Pattern design?


Soooo. I make a lot of postcards. So. I thought maybe I should include one in my portfolio, but I've only got like 10 scanned on my computer, and they're not necessarily show-offy(?) enough.
I mean, there's the weird ones like Panda Skull:



and Kraken of the Deep:



But I probably shouldn't be presenting my strangeness right off the bat, so there's cute stuff (that may well veer into strange territory) like Flying Pig:



Fuzzy Blue Monkey:



and Snail Mail:



But those might be too cute, so I've got a plainer one:



But I don't know that any of those are really showing off my mad hand skillz (which is what I presume the portfolio portion of the application is about) which leads us to the Curlique:



Which looked really cool in person, but seems to lose something in the scan (maybe I could snerch and scan dad's Father's Day card because the colors are more contrasty, but I was less ambitious with that one, so there are less curls). The main appeal of this is that it shows off what I can do with a pair of scissors that other people maybe cannot do?

Then there's the cut out Gold Curlique:



Which would have been way easier to make if I had had a scalpel, but at the time all I had was a (sorta dull) exacto knife, so the edges get sorta raggedy if you zoom in. And that, ladies and gentlepeople, is why I can't use the Patchwork Snowflake:



Because it looks like ass when you zoom in and see all the mismatched edges. And I'm trying to keep all my pictures as big as possible (for the application: I made them smaller for online purposes) so they can zoom in and see that things still look good close-up and I haven't photoshopped it or whatever.

Which leads us to the final option:



Which is cool mainly for the cat portion (individually threaded fishing line whiskers, come on!), but then the rest of it is sorta dull.


Don't get me wrong, I like all of them (or else I wouldn't have scanned them), but I'm trying to figure out what the Application Reviewers would like which is probably not the same thing and maybe I should skip the postcard in the portfolio.

Comments

[tobimonkee.livejournal.com]

for the animals you could say you desinged the pattern or just that they are your own design wich implies you did not use someone elses pattern

i always like your cards but i dont know how they fit the portfolio

[fuzzybluemonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll just stop with the stuffed animal. Cuz that shows a non-book versatility type thing.