hobbies and homies
Sep. 5th, 2004 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidena nice day yesterday. after much lazing, C and i headed for Lake City, the hobby neighborhood of Seattle, where we wandered the aisles of the gigantic and oddly comprehensive American Eagle Hobbies, where there are tiny people ready to kill each other, and tiny people kissing each other, and rocket fuel.
then we hit In the Beginning, where i got a book on bargello design. bargello is actually an old needlepoint technique where images are created out of a series of horizontal stitches of varying lengths. i like to think of it as fabric pixels - by varying the width and of a series of strips of rectangles, you can create intricate curves and the illusion of depth. the cool part is that the complexity is in the planning, not the construction, so it looks to be good for big brain, small skills. much toying with graph paper and art markers will ensue.
somewhere in there M&C called, and after negotiating Bumbershoot traffic to get C's laptop, we headed for the cafe at the Grand Illusion. i went off to find a cash machine and arrived to find C and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frabjousdave side by side, typing away, respective little Apples glowing (okay, i do wish i had a picture). the rest of the afternoon into evening is described beautifully by the_monkey_king. i want a house with big upholstered booths. part of the conversation with Matt and Lisa on the way home was about the little pleasures of dorm life - sometimes i wish all my friends lived in one big building with a lounge instead of spread across North America. ah well, you can't have everything, where would you put it?
the long weekend goes on, to eggs and fighting games, BBQ and livestock.
then we hit In the Beginning, where i got a book on bargello design. bargello is actually an old needlepoint technique where images are created out of a series of horizontal stitches of varying lengths. i like to think of it as fabric pixels - by varying the width and of a series of strips of rectangles, you can create intricate curves and the illusion of depth. the cool part is that the complexity is in the planning, not the construction, so it looks to be good for big brain, small skills. much toying with graph paper and art markers will ensue.
somewhere in there M&C called, and after negotiating Bumbershoot traffic to get C's laptop, we headed for the cafe at the Grand Illusion. i went off to find a cash machine and arrived to find C and
frabjousdave side by side, typing away, respective little Apples glowing (okay, i do wish i had a picture). the rest of the afternoon into evening is described beautifully by the_monkey_king. i want a house with big upholstered booths. part of the conversation with Matt and Lisa on the way home was about the little pleasures of dorm life - sometimes i wish all my friends lived in one big building with a lounge instead of spread across North America. ah well, you can't have everything, where would you put it?the long weekend goes on, to eggs and fighting games, BBQ and livestock.
