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treeskinToo windy to spray dormant oil (*) yesterday; I'm hoping to get it done ths afternoon. Otherwise, an uneventful day at work. Not too much trash in the lots, catching up on odds and ends, etc. Did pull a nive black and white cotton throw out of the dumpster yesterday morning....just needs the sawdust washed out of it (think it came from the theater trash).
Thanks to certain of our friends who've gotten us back in the habit of looking on Ebay for things, I'm now awaiting the arrival of two alto recorders. The first is a new, plastic faux-rosewood grain Yamaha 300 series ($35); the other is an older wooden instrument that was auctioned by a Goodwill store, who really didn't know what they were selling ($41). I'm kinda watching another one, a used Adler pearwood alto, which was at $5.50 three days ago, but suddenly jumped to $36 yesterday evening. And I think I'm going to start watching there for a decent plastic tenor, for outdoor play, since the Leavenworth Consort does at least two outdoor gigs a year.
No knitting last night, but I did finish (finally!) a chain-stitch binding. 5 x 5 1/2", 6 signatures of 24 pages each, covers are chipboard (read here, 24-pack of Coke packaging) covered with a wrinkled purple paper, and accented with ivory rice paper on the front, stitched with a variegated pearl cotton. I like the binding, once I figured out how it was supposed to work (I finally had to have Byron read the instructions and tell me what I was doing wrong). It's not as stable a binding, because the stitching just doesn't get as tight, but it is really neat to look at, and it opens up completely flat, which has potential. Stitching on the last signature and front cover (done together) was the worst--I ended up just doing it loosely, to hold it together, then going back after and tightening up the whole row.
I've been having visions of neatly handbound books of music, or sketchbooks.....so many ideas. so little time.
* Dormant oil is something you spray on dormant trees and shrubs as a preventative measure against boring and sucking pest.....spider mites on junipers, scale on euonymous, borers on birch and lilac and cherries. It's got to be over 40 degrees, and no more than 10mph winds in order to spray safely.
Thanks to certain of our friends who've gotten us back in the habit of looking on Ebay for things, I'm now awaiting the arrival of two alto recorders. The first is a new, plastic faux-rosewood grain Yamaha 300 series ($35); the other is an older wooden instrument that was auctioned by a Goodwill store, who really didn't know what they were selling ($41). I'm kinda watching another one, a used Adler pearwood alto, which was at $5.50 three days ago, but suddenly jumped to $36 yesterday evening. And I think I'm going to start watching there for a decent plastic tenor, for outdoor play, since the Leavenworth Consort does at least two outdoor gigs a year.
No knitting last night, but I did finish (finally!) a chain-stitch binding. 5 x 5 1/2", 6 signatures of 24 pages each, covers are chipboard (read here, 24-pack of Coke packaging) covered with a wrinkled purple paper, and accented with ivory rice paper on the front, stitched with a variegated pearl cotton. I like the binding, once I figured out how it was supposed to work (I finally had to have Byron read the instructions and tell me what I was doing wrong). It's not as stable a binding, because the stitching just doesn't get as tight, but it is really neat to look at, and it opens up completely flat, which has potential. Stitching on the last signature and front cover (done together) was the worst--I ended up just doing it loosely, to hold it together, then going back after and tightening up the whole row.
I've been having visions of neatly handbound books of music, or sketchbooks.....so many ideas. so little time.
* Dormant oil is something you spray on dormant trees and shrubs as a preventative measure against boring and sucking pest.....spider mites on junipers, scale on euonymous, borers on birch and lilac and cherries. It's got to be over 40 degrees, and no more than 10mph winds in order to spray safely.
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Date: 2004-02-26 05:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-26 08:49 am (UTC)What are the signatures you are stitching on the book?
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Date: 2004-02-26 09:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-26 09:38 am (UTC)That's what I keep reading in the reviews. I already have an alto, had it for years, but it's a very cheap brand (something German-sounding, starts with a D, can't remember right now), and has all the tonal quality of a kazoo. Since I'm playing in a group again, I can justify getting something better now.
Signatures = a group of pages folded and stitched, as a unit, into a book. All blank, at the moment, just nice paper I scavenged from the print shop dumpster here at work. Figured I was doing good to get the things put together.
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This is set of pages, the line in the middle is the fold where the stitches go (in a western-style book, anyway). Each signature in the books I've been doing have six of these units stacked together, which gives a total of 24 pages.
It makes much more sense when you're holding it in your hands.
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Date: 2004-02-26 10:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-28 05:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-28 09:08 am (UTC)A time to shoot for
Date: 2004-02-28 10:27 pm (UTC)Re: A time to shoot for
Date: 2004-02-28 11:10 pm (UTC)Re: A time to shoot for
Date: 2004-02-29 06:24 am (UTC)Re: A time to shoot for
Date: 2004-02-29 06:56 am (UTC)It's almost nine right now, and I'm going to jump in the shower, get dressed, let the dog out, etc, and then drive over, so I should be there before too long.