It’s pretty, but I thought it was one of Scientology’s logos for a while!
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scientology logo?
I’d never seen that S with the triangles logo before. I guess at a glance the AAS monogram shares the formal shapes, plus the metallic finish.
I assure you I have no association with that organization.
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I believe you. 
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Impact hammer drill?
High speed burr?
Water jet?
What’s the method?
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Penetrating glare?
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Pewpewpew Lasers?
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Handheld dremel + diamond coated burrs. Good also for ceramic and glass!
I make jewellery out of the resulting “beads”. 
(I also have a rock tumbler where I tumble glass to a high shine)
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Maybe not in place here, but don’t want to make the lounge into a sewing cafe. 
Talking about needles; how do you people keep track of your needles. (sewing machine needles). I use a lot of different kind of fabric. So, switch a lot. Some needle really ‘gone’ I trow away. But what to do with the ‘heavy used’ but not ‘gone’ needles?
It’s a mess at my place, older needles in the same box as new ones or loose. Not the youngest, I need a magnifying glass to read the numbers of the ones lying around. So…?
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I’ve mounted them into a piece of dowel and used them as makeshift tools.
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You can use a fabric pincushion to keep track of needles.
Something like ^^this^^ is good because it’s already divided into sections. You just write the needle size on each section (90/10, 70/8, and what type of point -std/ball, etc) so it’s easy to see the type of needle that’s stuck there.
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That seems a really good KISS idea. Love it, and feeling stupid I’ve not thought about it. Use such a (self-made) thing for pins and hand sewing needles. But divide and mark, good!
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Maybe that’s a thing I’m going to do with the used and bended, broken, whatever needles, thanks.
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Pretty socks!
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Thanks!
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I put them back in the containers they came in, new ones to the left, used but still good ones to the right.
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Cucumbers have nearly finished growing, so I started with sweet pickle relish and some bread and butter pickles. We did 13 cans of whole and/or quartered tomatoes over the weekend. I’ll probably be doing tomato sauce next weekend because it seems like we’re at the point where they almost all turn at the same time. We normally freeze our hot peppers for use over the year, then make hot sauce with the remainders in the fall. That project has to get underway soon. The early peppers ended up in the relish and pickles. And I can’t forget the string beans. They’ve hit their second wind.
Our apple tree has finally reached the age where it can make usable fruit, so next year we will spray so we can use them. We bought a weeping peach this spring, and we could get fruit from it as early as next year. We planted way too many strawberry plants this spring, so I’ll be turning out some jam next summer.
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Very cool. We grew bush beans, but ate them almost immediately like the greedy things we are. Our strawberries made lots of leaves but no berries. I wonder if the summer was too intense for them?
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Our strawberries didn’t appear to produce any fruit, either, but we have all manner of urban vermin and birds, all of whom seem to get there first. I haven’t had a cherry off our trees in two years either thanks to those greedy bastitches. I don’t know for a fact that we didn’t get flowers after the first bloom though, because I planted the beans with the strawberries, and some cucumbers volunteered in the thickest part of the patch - couldn’t see to the lowest level very well. We’ll be fencing the berries off in chicken wire cages next spring, though, so the fruit will be all for humans. Thinking about sewing two really big nets for the cherry trees, too, well maybe just one for the Bing tree.
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