Oooh!
Thank you for all the comments about the doily!
I’m catching up reading at Bloglines today, which reminded me that I meant to post this link ages ago. Bear with me through the explanation, I finally do post the link after a few paragraphs.
Okay, see, I was at Liberty Books in Columbus a few weeks ago and I found this do-it-yourself tech-geek magazine called Make and was having myself a geekgasm right there in the store. Alas, it is $15 per issue—though it’s only $35 for a year (or $26 for the digital version, except that I would probably spend the $9 difference on printer ink to print things out) so maybe I will subscribe when I have some money. Anyway, I restrained myself from buying it even though I so very badly wanted to make the two-cylinder Stirling engine from pop cans. I mean, how cute does that sound? Not to mention extracting my own DNA and making a head-mounted water cannon and everything else in there.
But that is not actually the link I wanted to post. Later on I went to their web site, and apart from all the cool things I found there (projects! and more projects! Hairspray powered potato cannon! Woohoo!)
Er. Sorry. As it turns out my soul is composed of approximately equal parts geek and redneck, and I’m still most excited about the potato cannon. (Also in those project links somewhere: A really cute FM radio that uses a little Play-Doh can as its case. Just in case you have a little person that wants to have an Ipod like yours.)
Anyway, and this is what I was working up to here, on that magazine’s web site, I also found a link to this new magazine that is launching, I think, this fall: Craft. That looks fuuuun. They also have a blog with lots of links to nifty projects: craftzine blog.
You all may have already seen this—I wouldn’t know because I am so far behind on reading everyone else’s blogs—but I had to post it before I forgot.
Yay!
And I promise that soon I will come back and post photos of the cool thing I did with that Motorhead T-shirt I stole from my buddy Jim in 1989 after I lost my own shirt under mysterious circumstances at a party at his parents’ house (this was during my misspent youth, hence the party-at-friend’s-parents’-house thing). It was great fun (reconstructing the t-shirt that is; I can’t really speak for the party because it was seventeen years ago and I was almost certainly drunk at the time). I got the idea from a book called something like Generation T: 108 Ways To Deface a Perfectly Good T-shirt (okay, that isn’t the real title, but I will come up with the actual title when I post the photos).
Currently in progress:
Asphyxiation (that choker I’m making), two and a half motifs down, one and a half motifs, a flower, and some sewing to go.
An afghan (well, the pattern says “afghan” but it’s more throw-sized IMO) that I’m making as a wedding gift: Probably about 40%. I have a deadline, and I am on row 41 of 91 (plus four rounds of edging). Wish me luck—I’m gonna need it.
