hand eye crafts

Yes, I AM a NASA Junkie

KSD — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:35:33 +0000

Hey. Honest-to-god water on the moon! This is SO COOL, people!

KSD — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:24:18 +0000

If It’s Fall

KSD — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:09:45 +0000

There will be Beef and Black Bean Soup

and naps under cozy quilts.

A Friday Off

KSD — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:41:53 +0000

While watching “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean” Wednesday night (God, Ava Gardner was beautiful), took pictures of almost all the hats I’ve made. Must now resize them to post on etsy. Hope to use free time over the weekend to photograph and upload some more worked-all-those-weeks-for-nothing-then-couldn’t-even-make-it-to-the-festival things.

Hannah’s had the stomach/throwing up things the last couple of days. Her best friend was just diagnosed with mono. Lots of friends nearer and nearer to all three of us are down with the flu. The germy circle is closing in around us. Who will be next? What will the symptoms be?

Watching a stunning, searing, brilliant piece called “God on Trial.” From the BBC, about Auschwitz prisoners. Quiet. And something that will stay with me.

Cameras

KSD — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:53:33 +0000

Got all the hats that I made for the festival out tonight to take etsy pictures, and. . . My camera battery was dead.

This is a thumbnail of all the pictures of my life right now.

I was also going to continue the H****way / Laurie feud, and while looking for images to use therein, I came across this:

Even I gotta give it up here.

Technical Difficulties

KSD — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:15:09 +0000

In her latest post , my dear Roxanne obviously ran into some uploading or editing problems. Not to fear, though — I’m here to straighten everything out.

The odd choice photo should have been:

while the photo with the headline Sigh was obviously supposed to go with:

You’re welcome.

Uh…

KSD — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:10:54 +0000

New books: hattitude and Noro: Meet the Man Behind the Legendary Yarn. Nice ways to stay distracted today, along with a couple of catalogs that came in the mail. Thank goodness for libraries, huh?

Had been working for, maybe, a week, on a diagonal lace-type scarf out of laceweight yarn. Discovered mistakes all the way back almost to the beginning last night, so unravelled it all and started making a simple cowl. My concentration is not what it should be at the moment. Also working on a secret Christmas project, a pair of mindless Noro wristlets, and did cast on a yellow mohair shrug last night:

You?

For the Love of Mike

KSD — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:16:30 +0000

Have spent lots and lots of time lately trying to build a hand eye website. Using a builder site that should make it easy. Lies. Pages that the site says have been published can’t be found anywhere. Photos that were uploaded and saved are gone. Why on earth I can’t get a selling website off the ground completely escapes me. I’ve been trying for years, and getting nowhere.

The misadventures there mean I haven’t gotten anything going on etsy, either. It’s just aggravating all the way around, I tell ya.

Appearances

KSD — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:54:02 +0000

Paraphrasing Marin — this sock looks perfectly innocent, doesn’t it?

Wrong.

This sock gave me as much aggravation as any sock I’ve ever knit. And if the colors and striping hadn’t been so lovely, I would have given up on it.

Well, that and the fact that this was the second sock, the problem didn’t crop up until the foot, and the fact that I don’t like to be beaten.

It was the yarn. All of a sudden, mid-skein, the yarn was all twisted. You know, as in, when you let it go, it spins into a long, long spiral between the skein and your needle. Now, I”ve had twists in yarn before. They can usually be worked out in a little while. This twisting went on and on. I couldn’t cut out around it, because I might not have had enough yarn to finish the sock.

Yet, the yarn itself was screwy, too. Like it was spun too tightly or something. It wasn’t soft, airish yarn anymore — it was tight, thin, THIN, like heavyweight silk thread tight.

HUH?

It was not fun knitting, it was knitting I just got through as quickly as I could to both minimize the aggravation and finish the damn thing.

Hey, art ain’t always pretty.

Saturday at The Chez

KSD — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:59:56 +0000

There is knitting going on here. And stuffed toy making. But mainly, we’re all being silly

and lazy.