Yesterday I made an evil flying pig out of felt. Perhaps I should put a photo of him on here. Hold on a minute...
There he is with his friend the Wonky Sheep (whose legs do not sit at each corner like those of a Normal Sheep, but which sit in different places, like those of a sheep specially adapted to stand on a very specific bit of rough terrain), asking two questions:*
- Why did I just stick a wire up his bum** to make it look like he was flying in a photograph? It hurt and he was not impressed;
- Given my photo-taking exploits of the past few days, why can I still not make the camera focus on objects which are close to me? Is it an innate deficiency in my brain, do I need more practice (he begs that I do not practise on him while he is impaled in an unfortunate place), or do I need a new camera? Being in rather a bad mood, he suspects that it is the former. He is bitter and resentful that I did not make the photograph I took, in which he was so carefully impaled as to look as though he was flying, count. I had better not publish it here; it is not very good.
*The two questions to which I refer, of course, are the ones at the beginning of each bullet point. Which is shaped like a number just to confuse me.
**Well, where would you stick it? The hole that it left is entirely appropriate in context. The pig is glowering at me. Perhaps I should not have given it eyes. Also, given that he was made by a process of stabbing a ball of wool with a needle repeatedly, you would have thought he would have built up a tolerance for such things by now.
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Oh, I am familiar with the stabbing of the animals! Well, ok, so I haven't stabbed animals in particular, but I have used a similar technique on unsuspecting signs and wall-hangings. You might try those, they tend to glower quite less than pigs and sheeps.
Perhaps we BOTH should aim to get out a bit more?
Oh, and *do* be careful with those special needles; they are QUITE nasty if you grip them the wrong way!
I have only stabbed 3d things so far - I have created a few sunsets, but I used wet felting for them. I have ordered a couple of books on the subject (excellent idea - work out how to do it, decide I like it, and only the find out if I am doing it right), and shall be finding out how to make Japanese animals. I wonder who might possibly benefit from that...
I got out this evening, to the pub, for 1 1/2 hours! I drank expensive cordial (winter berries - surprisingly yummy) and chatted for a bit. Then I came home.
The special needles I have seem reasonably tame - I think that they are the gentle sort. In the near future I shall obtain some slightly more effective needles and proceed to do myself some real damage (so far it has just been unprovoked stabbings; poor left thumb).
Oh, that sounds exciting! And Japanese animals would be wonderful. :)
How lovely to get out to the pub! Expensive cordial sounds well-deserved and enjoyable, too.
The needles I had used were about 4 inches long? and had several little thorn-like protrusions nearest the sharp end which gripped the wool for stabbing. These suckers DO rather hurt should you attempt to use your skin as wool. I don't recommend this.
Please keep your damage to a minimum! Wouldn't want to miss any updates due to thickly-bandaged digits. :)
My needles are also about 4 inches long, but the protrusions are more intrusions, as they go inwards. Quite meek and mild. I am not looking forward to the damage I will inflict on myself when I get hold of some proper needles, which I have seen but have never been able to buy (if you spend over £25 in the shop, they increase the shipping charge; I have to whittle down my desired items until they come under this price, and the wool is such pretty colours that the needles do not get a look-in).
I don't really see the connection between bandaged fingers and updates. It's not as though the lack of bandaged fingers has left me productive, or anything! ;-) However, an update may be on its way tomorrow. I have slightly non-uninteresting news...
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