Wednesday, April 30, 2008
On my desk
Two generations of Canon Pixmas (Pixmae?), the newer of which is an all-in-one. Which means I once again have a working scanner, and the biiiiig box of paper patterns downstairs is calling to it.
So is the snowshoe hare, who's had some pattern modifications done after being printed out. My previous method of digitizing consisted of taking pictures of the pieces on my infamous orange 1" grid, tracing the outlines and correcting for keystoning and such, printing the results out and comparing them, making more corrections, etc. The scanner should make that a much more accurate process.
Not to be outdone by the UPS guy, my mailman delivered presents today, too: a box of taxidermy eyeballs. Yay! Okay, not quite that weird: a box of glass carousel horse eyes from Van Dyke Taxidermy. They're pretty much like glass teddy-bear eyes, but without the wire loops, and actually better suited for needlefelting around in many ways. It's never actually happened, but I'm always afraid the barbs on the felting needles will catch on and cut through the threads anchoring the eyes. Or perhaps worse, catch on and weaken them, so they fail later. Maybe I'm just paranoid. Especially since I use about four strands of heavy thread to anchor every eye.
I'll have to take a picture (or maybe just scan) the eyes soon. Two pairs of brown, for the bunnies, one pair of yellow, for a lynx (never mind that I now have three, count 'em, three faux-lynx coats), and a number of "flints" - which is apparently taxidermist-speak for "unpainted clear glass eyes." So now I don't have any excuses to not finish up the first snowshoe hare. Other than the excuse that that printer is still upstairs because my workroom is stacked to the ceiling (yes, literally; admittedly it's only a 77" ceiling) with boxes.
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posted by Karen in Wichita
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