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To shreds, you say?
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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.
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07-07-2014, 06:03 PM
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D'you use tiny needles, like lace needles, Limey?
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07-08-2014, 01:46 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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Yes. I may do a photo essay, but not today.
Well done Footsie Fixit! Sent by thought transference
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07-08-2014, 09:46 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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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.
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07-08-2014, 08:00 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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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!
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07-09-2014, 11:39 AM
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I can hear my ears
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I bet you could make scads of cash at the right craft festival.
Do you put magnets inside of them?
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07-09-2014, 12:44 PM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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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.
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07-09-2014, 01:28 PM
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I've made too much poo today.
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07-09-2014, 02:55 PM
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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.
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07-09-2014, 03:04 PM
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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. Sent by thought transference
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07-09-2014, 04:28 PM
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07-09-2014, 09:12 PM
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Someone brought this up in light of the recent Hobby Lobby case...http://sandiegofreepress.org/2014/07...male-employees
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07-09-2014, 11:15 PM
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 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?
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07-10-2014, 09:47 AM
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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.
This is a birthday present for a friend of mine with a significant birthday this weekend who provides office services ... Sent by thought transference
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07-10-2014, 01:26 PM
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Pix or it didn't happen.
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