Comments | extrajoker: Procrastinate much?

extrajoker

Procrastinate much?

Feb 19, 2006 22:46

I celebrated Valentine's Day...by working my normal 10-hour shift. That's okay, though, as George and I spent the preceding weekend together. He gave me a novel (Brass Ankle Blues) and a pair of earrings (sterling silver with dangling red, black, and silver beads); I gave him a jar I'd decorated (with paint, gaming dice, etc.) and filled with nuts ( Read more... )

crafting, george, holidays, word geekery

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Oh dear... gymli February 20 2006, 07:40:04 UTC

I realized I'd sliced my thumb on the edge of the glass and was now bleeding. Bugger.

My mother would not be happy... :-)

Re: Oh dear... extrajoker February 21 2006, 05:05:04 UTC

You forgot this one:

After searching in vain for a local place where one can get old-west/gangster-era sepia-tone costume photos taken in February, we decided we'd have to wait until Six Flags opened. Bugger.

She'd be doubly unhappy. (Shh...Don't tell!)

taellosse February 20 2006, 19:07:48 UTC

Ah! No, not masking tape! Masking tape is BAD for framing. Not only is it VERY acidic, and thus stains the fabric or paper of the art a yucky yellow over time, but it also doesn't stick very well after a few months, and tends to come loose. If you must use tape, I'd recommend some kind of acid-free tape. You could get some at most craft stores. But with cross-stitch its really better to get a piece of acid-free foam-core for backing, and pin the fabric in place using dressmaker pins along the edge of the foam-core. That, or use a needle and fishing line to sew the loose bits together in the back (which is actually the best, but most tedious, method ( ... )

extrajoker February 21 2006, 05:12:06 UTC

That's right. I forgot that art framing was your super power! (Then I read your comment and remembered the framing advice you e-mailed to Neil Gaiman.)

I'm not much worried about staining the fabric: the tape is at the edges of the fabric, far from the pattern. I have used the pin-and-sew method in framing some of my cross-stitch projects, but I wasn't very inspired that night. (I haven't even trimmed the excess fabric yet.) Really, I just wanted to see how it would look in the frame.

Thanks for the advice, though, on framing and bloodstain-removing. (The cut, by the way, has already healed; it was a clean shallow slice, not unlike a papercut.)

taellosse February 21 2006, 16:54:38 UTC

Yeah, that's the kind of cut the edge of picture glass tends to give you. You have to be extremely careless to get really deep cuts from it.

I've never thought of framing as my super power. Its kind of a pathetic one, if that's the case. I think I'd much rather be able to run faster than a locomotive, or something.

extrajoker February 22 2006, 06:05:05 UTC

Now if the other sense of framing were your superpower -- if you could easily find a patsy to take the rap for every diabolical crime you committed -- think what a successful supervillain you could be!

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anonymous February 21 2006, 14:34:12 UTC

I like the stitch!

-Derek

extrajoker February 22 2006, 05:59:34 UTC

Thanks! For some reason I've always had a fondness for the three wise monkeys. :)

manicanhedonic February 21 2006, 22:28:50 UTC

I'm catching up!

extrajoker February 22 2006, 06:00:34 UTC

Indeed! Now, if I give a pop quiz, you'll be ready!