Resonate Revisited

Oh the horror of those things languishing in the deep recesses of the storage spaces in my apartment. The truth is, I nearly killed my sewing machine putting this little beauty together, and am loathe for a repeat performance.

What you're looking at the top is a four foot by five foot flannel quilt, embedded with twenty 2-inch speakers. Those little puffs are constructed with box pleats, spacious enough for some poly fil and a maybe a speaker.

I slept under this blanket for a year, until the stitching between its twenty panels started to deteriorate from the strain. The pleating technique used one square yard of fabric to make one square foot panel. Add to that twenty pounds of fluffy stuffing and the heft of twenty speakers, and you've got a lot of pressure on the hand-stitching that kept the panels together. I tried stitch it all together with my sewing machine, but we're talking about eight layers of some pretty substantial fabric. I resorted to sewing it by hand, a project I always mean to take up again, someday. For now the separate components are stashed in the storage spaces in my apartment, laundered and waiting for a rainy day or rainy season, perhaps? The speakers have been glued into clear plastic orbs, in the hopes that a bit more space between the fluff and the diaphragm will allow for better sound output. I did some experiments with pillows embedded with speakers, and it seemed to work alright, though I may need to find a better speaker than the little 8 ohm piezos I picked up from American Science and Surplus.

Haven't you ever wanted to wrap yourself in a song?