Saturday of Physical Making

[flexagon]

This morning I got up and finished knitting the last few rows of this hat:



Then I walked across the room and took a picture of this, my little office corner. I kind of claimed this corner just a few months ago, by turning the desk away from the wall and putting up the corkboard; before that I had just a desk.



Hardware store. Measure, measure, measure, level, level, level, drill, screw, hardware store again, spackle, level, screw, sweep, clean:



My great triumph was getting the two 36" shelves on the top to line up almost perfectly, creating a single 72" shelf (counting the OTHER top shelf that turns the corner, it might even be a 102" shelf). And the eerie blue glow on the top shelf? Courtesy of a string of LED christmas lights. I don't think they'll last long. I do want lighting up there, to keep myself from presiding over the Corner of Shadows, but the LEDs have a frequency like a computer monitor; I get that strobe effect if I look in their direction and wave my hand in front of my face.

So, 198" of brand new shelf space to fill up with crap! YAY! ...and just kidding. Soon enough a contractor will come to rip out my half-closet, and so these shelves are likely to end up storing my clothes for a while while he does that small renovation. After that, I have other plans.

Comments

[perfectbound.livejournal.com]

Shedir! Very nice. Also I heart the little desk nest; want one of my own for work-at-home days, but my house lacks corners.

[flexagon]

Thanks, it is indeed a Shedir -- intended as kind of a warmup for Morrigan, but also a nice little project in itself. For some reason I didn't come even close to using the whole ball of yarn, so it's a good thing I have a little pin head. At any rate, this gives me a good feeling about being able to get the supposedly-crazy gauge for the Morrigan. :-)

Also, "desk nest", I love your turn of phrase. That's way better than "office corner".

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Great looking hat! Is that the same blue as the sweater you made a few months ago?

[flexagon]

Thanks! And nope, this is much thinner yarn in a sort of periwinkle (the purplish cast didn't really make it to the picture). I do have enough of it to make a sweater, and a sweater pattern in mind that's a lot like the hat:



So maybe someday I'll be all matchy-matchy and covered in tiny cables, but not yet.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Ooh! To both! :-)

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

That is a cute beanie!!! You got skills!!!

[kaigex.livejournal.com]

That is some totally impressive shelf construction! I'm jealous of having real walls. My walls are jerks. Horse-hair and plaster with studs are funny distances apart.

I'd be so very tempted to fill the shelves with Lego castles and such. At least a few brave soldiers with pikes to keep the encroaching orderliness away. And shelves must be filled, else they breed demons. After all, empty shelf space is the younger sister of the vacuum that entropy loves. ^_~

[flexagon]

These ARE horsehair and plaster jerk walls. :( Actually I got lucky here; where our studs are regular, they tend to be 16" apart, and they are indeed every 16" on the main wall you can see in the picture. For the shelf that turned the corner, they were 19" apart for no good reason.

The hour+ that I spent with the studfinder was by far the most nervewracking part of this whole process, though.