memesheepage

[taimatsu]

Pick an interest from my Interests list that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why I would be interested in it, and request an explanation.

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Explain please

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

puchiko

[kake]

Cross-stitch. Why is it fun? I tried it a few times and it just doesn't feel creative to me. It feels mechanical and uninteresting, because you're just following a chart. A cross-stitch "recipe" doesn't seem to lend itself to adaptation in the same way as other crafts.

Re: Explain please

[taimatsu]

Puchiko is a character from the Japanese animation 'Digi Charat', and she is also called Petit Charat. She is a sort of small alien cat-girl. She is quiet and sweet. Dejiko/Digi Charat is her big, green-haired, hyperactive sister.

[taimatsu]

I don't actually do standard cross-stitch :) I have some Aida, some embroudery floss, and some downloaded jpgs of historical embroidery patterns which I mangle, edit and mine for ideas. I have only one project on the go at the moment (has been for about a year) which is an altered Tudor-ish design of stylised flowers, which I am doing in green and red (the design did not specify colour). The fun bit is changing it to something I like and find attractive and then the interesting bit (for me) of placing the stitches for best thread usage (because I am crap, there is probably a normal way to do this but I don't know it) and producing something I can hang on the wall.

I have also done small ramed cross-stitch pieces for friends when younger, which were also images I made up. It is not hard to create a cross-stitchable layout from a picture you like. I may at some point also embroider costume.

That said, I don't do it often at all and it probably shouldn't be on the list.

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

*checks*

*checks again*

Nope...nothing on there that meets either criterion.

Re: Explain please

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

Right well that is me more informed than I was - excellent :)

Oh and see my LJ for a variation on this meme

sh!,

[devi-uk.livejournal.com]

Whats this?

Re: sh!,

[taimatsu]

It's a women's sex shop in London. It is pretty cool :)

Re: sh!,

[devi-uk.livejournal.com]

Cool, I learnt something today, cheers x

[kake]

> It is not hard to create a cross-stitchable layout from a picture you like.

This might be a useful thing to write a page about on the wiki.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

cithare

And is "grubling" a typo? If not I need that one explaining too.

Is asking about two cheating? ;-)

[taimatsu]

Okay, I'll try. Hmm. Must translate my weird method into sane method :)

[taimatsu]

'cithare' is the French for zither. I use 'cithare' because 'zither' would suggest Romany-type music and what I do/have isn't. I have a French monastic liturgical zither that is about the size of a small coffee-table. It has strings grouped into chords on the left side and melody strings on the right. It is big and wonderful and lovely and at my parents' house, sadly :( It makes the most fantastic noise. It was brought for me specially from Paris and is possibly the most impressve of my 'weird musical instruments' collection.

'grubling' is my iMac - I know too many people who name their computers so I had to join in. I rarely use the name, though. It's a contraction of GReen bUBbLe thING. Honest.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm strictly following the rules here - OK, I'm totally ignoring them - but tell me about Alyson Hannigan, Christianity and stripy socks (...why are stripes so good on legs anyway?)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Bigods, they're _stripes_. They're... so stripy.

[shoujokakumei.livejournal.com]

Sure. Who is yomiko readman?

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

alt.fan.kay-dekker ?

[taimatsu]

My default LJ icon. Also the heroine of 'Read Or Die', a simply wonderful anime OAV :)

[robert-jones.livejournal.com]

Perfect blue.

[taimatsu]

A newsgroup for people who are fans of mhw because he is so fabulous. :)

[taimatsu]

... is a Japanese animated thriller feature film with gorgeous arwork and a confusing, rather gory, very enjoyable storyline.

[taimatsu]

Stripes, as David says, are simply... so stripy.

Alyson Hannigan is incredibly cute, especially right at the start of Buffy when she is being all geeky and long-haired.

And Christianity I have a general interest in, aside from being a weird sort of enquirer into the faith, and aside from being an ex-theology student.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

fair enough