About the Mob
Well, really it's a mob of one, but you get the idea. I'm just me, in Hotlanta, but through me there are many others (yes, we are numerous), and we have teh pointy sticks (fear them), and besides that, we make pretty things. Mostly.All Them Thangs
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Sorry.
I lied about that posting, only not really because the internet was mysteriously nonfunctional when I got home after class. So here’s the make-up: I did a lot of embroidery at Wednesday’s SCA meeting. I even tried to show Lea … Continue reading
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More internets
Yesterday I Learned how to use JavaScript and got better with HTML and CSS. I am moving along quite nicely! Did some more and better embroidery. Took my camera cable out of my purse but didn’t replace it. So you’ll … Continue reading
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Backing up a bit
The books stuff I’m working on now is not the only thing I’ve accomplished, book-wise, over the past month or so. I forgot to take photos, but here’s Master Lorenzo’s elevation gift (no, it’s not magic – he took some … Continue reading
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Tagged books, boookbinding, crafts, European, Italian, medieval, middle ages, sca
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Endbands!
I am in love with endbands. No, really. It was necessary for me to sleep last night, so I had to quit but I didn’t want to. Also, did you know that if you hunch over something for six hours, … Continue reading
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Tagged bookbinding, books, crafts, DIY, islamic codex, persian, sca
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(untitled)
Before I became a graphic designer, I was a fine artist. I made gigantic collages out of stacks and stacks of the same magazine (all Time, or all fashion magazines, etc) plus these weird contour drawings I painted over with … Continue reading
What a weekend.
No, seriously. I had intended to clean house, which I sort of did, but then I did a lot of other stuff. And while that’s all well and good, I still need to clean my house. Oh, well. Anyway. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged bike riding, bikes, bookbinding, books, crafts, DIY, embroidery, georgia, india, persian, sca, Silver Comet, trails, zari
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Moar chain-stitch
Plus pizza. The fiber of today’s friday is not the yarn kind, but instead my current obsession, which is chain-stitch embroidery. (I went looking for examples of this sort of thing, and wanted CC-licensed stuff, and lo and behold this … Continue reading
Posted in Fiber Friday, General stuff, india, other links, sca
Tagged atlanta, design, embroidery, fiber, Fiber Friday, india, napoli, pizza, sca, sewing, web design, website, zari
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So.
I forgot this lovely little webcomic gem yesterday, and so I’m correcting that today: Wondermark This comic is so completely brilliant, I can’t even explain it. You’ll have to go look and see for yourself (today’s contemplates the logic of … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, fiber, knitting, webcomics, yarn
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I love you, internet.
So then there was this other exciting thing that I’m learning to do, which is to build webpages, and I just realized that I love CSS. A lot. But you probably don’t care about that. Moving along, the top 5 … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, css, hulu, I love, internet, knitting, nerds, ravelry, streaming, technology, twitter, videos webcomics
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All righty, then.
Remember that thing I said about being distracted easily? It’s so true. Case in point: That there is tambour embroidery, which I spent a little over an hour working on last night at Project Night. A while back, I’d made … Continue reading
knitters = angry mob 