Because who is John Galt? I had to fix my own god damned weed whacker, small engine repair is one of those things I am theoretically more than happy to let the other guy make a living at, but alas, no.

So I got the fucker completely apart and back together and it runs. But I still can't find the shoulder strap (or the parts to make one) so I still can't whack weeds.

Fixed the leaky faucet upstairs and de-calcified both toilets. Also repaired son's fan and one of the fluorescent lights in the basement got a new plug.

Mr. Fixit.

D'you use tiny needles, like lace needles, Limey?

Yes. I may do a photo essay, but not today.
Well done Footsie Fixit!

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O. and btw, Limes, those are awesome tinies. If you kniffted them out of kevlar you could stuff them with catnip for the kittehs.

Limey, the pics you've been posting are amazing and gorgeous! My stupid post-hyperbaric therapy vision would never let me make anything so beautiful. Please keep posting pics!

I bet you could make scads of cash at the right craft festival.
Do you put magnets inside of them?

Jim - for me, knitting is like sex. If I love you it's free, but if not you can't afford it! (Apart from the Sticky Willies, that is).
I originally got the pattern book with the intention of putting little magnets in the figures, but started knitting the figures last week when I was making a new batch of Willies and ran out of magnets, because I'd got a taste for knitting on that scale. For me part of the appeal is that they are totally useless.

I've made too much poo today. :greenface

I get that. Jinx was of the same mind regarding photography. I just meant that they are desirable. Useless, but I still want one.

Just... It could be a beanie baby type fad and you'd be stupid rich.

Are they all from patterns, or do you create them from scratch? Can you do a little cock? Rooster, that is.

They're all from patterns. I wouldn't get stupid rich, they take an average of a couple of hours each, so I'd have to be paid, say, $40 per piece? That's just not going to happen, is it. Or outsource the labour. The only way to make money out of this is to publish a book of patterns, which Anna Hrachovec has done, and I bought it. :)
Cock is tricky. Getting sufficient identifiers in at such a small scale isn't easy. The less you have to work with, the more each element matters. I reckon it's far easier to write a 60,000 words novel than a 32 word children's book, and the same thing applies here.


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Someone brought this up in light of the recent Hobby Lobby case...http://sandiegofreepress.org/2014/07...male-employees

They are sooo cool. :thumb:
Wonderful to have a hobby you love that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and small enough to take with you. I don't know if they'd let you take the needles on a plane, though?

Bruce, I don't take this sort of project around with me: it's too fiddly, requires a certain amount of attention and the bits would get lost. I do have travel knitting, usually a pair of socks, which I take most places. For the socks I use a set of five wooden needles which are about five inches long and less than 1/8 inch or so in diameter. I have not yet had any trouble knitting at airports or on planes (sometimes I'm asked to put it away during take-off or landing). If asked I'd take the needles out of the project and submit them for confiscation without argument, even though I reckon they're less dangerous then a fine-point biro. After all, security is only doing their job, and this sort of thing seems to be (anecdotally) at the discretion of the security personnel to a certain extent.
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This is a birthday present for a friend of mine with a significant birthday this weekend who provides office services ...


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How much is too much?
Pix or it didn't happen.