This One's For You Mike (Twin Oaks)

[Sylvia]

Think Silhouette, Cheryl.

Remember the things we did in grade school for our Mothers? Or for president's day? That looked something like this?

http://www.peggymcclard.com/Day%20boy%204696%2001ac%2096px.jpg

What happened is you picked a picture with "legs." I think you would have been better off with just a horses head in silhouette.

Good for you for trying...

[DoubleC]

Thanks Sylvia. Let's just say it ain't over until it's over :-) Might be a chapter or at least epilogue left to this story. Stayed tuned to the inlay reality show, LOL.

[DoubleC]

New and I hope a little improved checkbook. I didn't finish sewing the guts in, they're glued and it's sweltering here today so Lucky decided he needed a different needle and thread to do the last. I said no, and took my marbles and went back to the computer :-)

[oldtimer]

New and I hope a little improved checkbook. I didn't finish sewing the guts in, they're glued and it's sweltering here today so Lucky decided he needed a different needle and thread to do the last. I said no, and took my marbles and went back to the computer :-)

Must ask, since many projects are checkbooks: Do you still use checks as payment in the US? I haven´t seen a check here in Sweden for the last 20 years or so.

/ Knut

[DoubleC]

I use 2 a month :-) I use my ATM card for everything else. But being 20 years behind you we get charged if use that for electric or phone. Cheryl

[CowboyDan]

Must ask, since many projects are checkbooks: Do you still use checks as payment in the US? I haven´t seen a check here in Sweden for the last 20 years or so.

/ Knut

All the time.

There are a lot of smaller businesses that don't have the ability to easily accept credit/debit cards, as well as small utility companies that don't have an online bill pay system. Then there are the local (city/township/county) taxes that don't accept credit cards or cash.

Around where I live, there are a lot of Amish folks, and they don't take plastic. Cash or check only.

I know of some people that use checks as a way to control their spending, too. It's too easy for them to just slide the card and not feel the pain. But if they have to write out the amount, they think twice (or more) about the purchase.

[katsass]

Must ask, since many projects are checkbooks: Do you still use checks as payment in the US? I haven´t seen a check here in Sweden for the last 20 years or so.

/ Knut

oldtimer; I'm much of an anachronism in this day and age I guess. I use cash or checks. I do have a couple of credit cards, but don't use them much at all --- basically only in some kind of emergency. I don't carry a cell phone unless I'm going out of town, and no one but my son and wife have the number. I pay $20 every 90 days to keep it going, and have something over $300 in credit on it that can be used..Once in a while I use it to make a long-distance call, since I've put in enough to cover anything I need to do on the 'phone'. It doesn't have a camera in it, and don't think it can even send text --- but it works when I need it. So, in answer to your question, there are still of us old guys the do use a checkbook. Mike

[TwinOaks]

Yep, you certainly made use of some negative space.....but like grumpy old Mike said, too much too soon.....I just hope you don't need 30 yrs of practice before your next inlay . When you do an inlay, you need to trim down the inside of the top piece to make a smoother transition between the two pieces. Personally, it's recognizable as a horse, and the work on the eye is fantastic. You'll also find yourself hand wheeling through stitching something like that until you've become VERY proficient with the machine.

I completely understand the want to make everything 'useable' and to generate as little scrap as possible. One thing for sure, it's a good way to learn to work with scraps! Accept that there WILL be some wastage, no matter how hard you try. When I was getting started, I bought a box of scraps from one of the members here just to learn how to do things like inlays....it saves your 'good' leather for th actual projects.

[DoubleC]

Everything I've had up until now came from a box of scraps I got from someone on here :-) The horse you helped me with on negative space was a scrap piece, and I see it every day because I use it as a mouse pad. Nothing gets thrown away around here and i like to see where I've been and hopefully where I'm going. I still have the first 4 eyes I did where they slowly changed from a deformed amoebae into something almost recognizable as an eye. Since I live alone, well with my ever faithful Skadi, most of my feedback comes from here so I have to keep things I guess to keep encouraged and motivated. The old, people who forget history are bound to repeat it stuff. Not that I haven't repeated it anyway a time or two.

But I've been so luck to meet people here that are willing to look at a 1000 (or so it seemed) eyes and give me feedback, or horses or talk about negative space like you. I just 'renewed' the end of my stick background tool for this :-) Cheryl