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which_chick) wrote2005-03-22 07:13 am
which_chick) wrote2005-03-22 07:13 am
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I started watching the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last night. I haven't seen it yet, so this is the first time through for me. When I get done, Buffy will be over. Right now, it's not over. I mean, yeah, in a vast and universal sense, it's over. But for me, personally, it's not over yet. *grin* I give it a week.
I don't want Buffy to be over.
In other news, I've been thinking about felting. Felting is something that you do with wool, hot water, and agitation, to make a thick, sturdy fabric. I've always thought that wool fabrics in hot water smelled like sheep. Anyway, this looks like an interesting project, so I believe I'm going to make a felted bag which I can use to tote my knitting around. Now, let's look at the audience reactions:
Good reaction: Cool! Take pictures!
Bad reaction: Man, that's so fucking old-lady.
All ya'll with bad reactions, go stand in line for a flogging. (My, there are a lot of you. I had no idea so many people with glistening, tanned bodies read my LJ. Perhaps we should have floggings more often...)
The instructions for the knitted bag (you knit first and then felt) suggest circular needles. I may need to order some from the nearly immediate gratification online yarnery mentioned here previously. Now that's a burden, innit? Oh, the horror. I don't know if I can bear it.
The instructions (there are free ones at knitty.com but I'm not sure I have a French Market lifestyle so perhaps the bag will not look quite like that -- I'm still considering the matter, but I'll probably abuse at least some of the directions) also suggest doing a swatch to get some idea of the amount of dimensional shrinkage in the felting process. Oooh, science! That'll be fun. There will be actual math and stuff. How cool is that? Other people do things like take dippy online tests to see what kind of flower they are and I... I abuse sheep fur in hot water so that I can do math about how much it shrinks. No contest on which of those is more fun, is there?
I don't want Buffy to be over.
In other news, I've been thinking about felting. Felting is something that you do with wool, hot water, and agitation, to make a thick, sturdy fabric. I've always thought that wool fabrics in hot water smelled like sheep. Anyway, this looks like an interesting project, so I believe I'm going to make a felted bag which I can use to tote my knitting around. Now, let's look at the audience reactions:
Good reaction: Cool! Take pictures!
Bad reaction: Man, that's so fucking old-lady.
All ya'll with bad reactions, go stand in line for a flogging. (My, there are a lot of you. I had no idea so many people with glistening, tanned bodies read my LJ. Perhaps we should have floggings more often...)
The instructions for the knitted bag (you knit first and then felt) suggest circular needles. I may need to order some from the nearly immediate gratification online yarnery mentioned here previously. Now that's a burden, innit? Oh, the horror. I don't know if I can bear it.
The instructions (there are free ones at knitty.com but I'm not sure I have a French Market lifestyle so perhaps the bag will not look quite like that -- I'm still considering the matter, but I'll probably abuse at least some of the directions) also suggest doing a swatch to get some idea of the amount of dimensional shrinkage in the felting process. Oooh, science! That'll be fun. There will be actual math and stuff. How cool is that? Other people do things like take dippy online tests to see what kind of flower they are and I... I abuse sheep fur in hot water so that I can do math about how much it shrinks. No contest on which of those is more fun, is there?
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