Friday, May 2, 2008
Look what was in my garden
We had a hailstorm come through last night, so I went out early this morning to see if anything remained of my garden. I was pessimistic, so I was pleasantly surprised. This is the worst of the cabbages, and I'm sure it'll pull through fine.
I put the tomatoes and peppers in a little too early, though. But the gerbera daisies are doing beautifully. Wait... this is a vegetable garden!
Oh, so you think you can come in here in camouflage, do you? That better just be hail damage on those cabbages. Show yourself, little Flower Bunny!
Oh, you can't. Heh. This is Work In Progress Friday, and your body isn't finished yet.
I've actually finished all the sewing, but when I put together my new sewing tote (from which I'm working until I get the workroom moved), I left out a small stuffing tool. And I was too lazy to go to the basement to get one out, so I worked on the snowshoe hare yesterday. He's not as photogenic yet, but here are his eyes:
The eyes come sealed onto cardstock, so at first they look like badly scuffed acrylic eyes. They're glass, though. And I tried the manual mode on the camera since it wasn't compensating for the light from my desk lamp, but I guess I should have worried about more settings than color. Trust me when I say they look pretty much like the pictures in the Van Dyke catalog. What I really wanted to show is what they don't show there: the side and back views. As you can see, the backs aren't completely flat; they have the pupil indent.
I wouldn't use these for conventional eye settings - sure, you could glue your thread on in lieu of the loop, but it'll only hold as tightly as the paint holds to the glass. No, the sockets will be pre-sculpted, so there's no tension involved on the eyes. They'll be glued in place, and then have needlefelted lids around them, so they'll be doubly secure.
Status update:
- Snowshoe Hare
- You'll have seen the snowshoe hare pattern preview yesterday, of course. He lacks one front leg, some final assembly... and where did his other ear get to, in my sewing-tote move?
- Flower Bunny
- Needs stuffed, jointed, and assembled. He's a Mother's Day gift, so I'd better... uh... hop to it. Also, I need to put the Bunny variant on the pattern page.
- Gryphon and sun conure
- On hold until the Mother's Day gifts are finished.
- Snowshoe Hare II
- Speaking of Mother's Day gifts, I guess I'll put this guy on the list, too, even though I haven't started him. Same song, second verse, except this one's to be made from real blue fox instead of faux. The notion is that the real-fur one goes to my mother-in-law, the faux one goes on eBay or Bearpile against her medical bills. But I'm months behind, so we'll see. For one thing, I gotta go clean up that poor wind- and hail-battered garden...
Labels: flowerbear, friday, hare
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posted by Karen in Wichita
@ 12:06 PM
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