Wildly bad color, but I’m lazy today. I spent my energy shopping for bits and bobs to ornament The Comet.
Avoiding Walmart, I started at the local craft shoppe, which I might mock, but I am reasonably happy with their selection, and besides, sometimes you need to go pull open twenty or thirty drawers of little bits of color. The local craft shoppe has the whole DMC case. And why is the arrangement of that case so crazy-making? Why aren’t all the browns together, and the reds, and the greens? Instead you have to open every single little drawer all the way out. Normally I find this a good thing, but I was really trying to find just a few colors – with “a few” turning into 15. Maybe that’s why.
The next stop was the hardware store – and this is so weird. The guy who is a jerk, who is always a jerk, to the point where I cross the street to avoid him – was nice. “Made jokes” nice. “Gave me advice” nice. I think the store changed hands a few months ago. Maybe they got big huge raises? Anyway. We had a discussion about MAP gas, and how handy those little suitcase oxy-acetylene kits are. Like I am worthy of breathing his air, suddenly. Cool. I like hardware guys that believe you aren’t dumb. (The big yellow cylinder is MAP gas, which I think isn’t as explosive as the label might make you think. I hope.)
No walking to get to the quilt shop, and there I had a sad. Being a quilt shop, they don’t have a lot of choices for sewing machine thread. I did manage to pick up those two spools of shiny towards the back, along with that nice yellow. I still need a neutral grey, for patching jeans, and maybe beads. I might want beads; I’m not sure yet. So I will still have to go to Walmart. But, including the pharmacy, I got stuff done at four local businesses. Not bad, for a little town.
dottedyellowline 
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February 27, 2015 at 11:44 am
An
I can’t wait to see how the comet comes out. The threads are gorgeous but I can’t figure out how you’re going to use the MAP gas. Is it like laughing gas only sillier?
February 27, 2015 at 12:18 pm
k
The MAP gas in for my metal stuff. The next hottest is an oxy-acetylene torch. I’m having trouble getting the metal I’m working with hot enough. I can get things to braze, and I can get solder to flow, but I can’t get bigger pieces of metal hot enough to cause the solder to flow on its own. It’s probably more an issue with the tips than the gas, but here I am.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:44 AM, dottedyellowline wrote:
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February 27, 2015 at 11:44 am
An
I just checked out MAP gas and now wonder what you’re making with it.