I made a thing for ghoti!
Oct. 10th, 2016 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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For the cotton anniversary of our first date, we went to the Anchor Sutton Gault and it was really nice and we did good communication about things.
But also, I made a thing! In honour of the Parasol Protectorate books ghoti introduced me to, or maybe Firefly, I made a steampunk parasol. I bought a folding lace parasol, and took some cogs, and attached some to the spokes, and some round each panel of the parasol. And used a picture hook pin to attach one to the top and bottom of the shaft, sized at just narrower than the diameter, and loosened just enough they don't feel loose but do spin.
Having entirely cogs that are fixed without spinning seemed sad, these were great.
And I was really pleased, because I'm rarely able to actually *make* something.
For the cotton anniversary of our first date, we went to the Anchor Sutton Gault and it was really nice and we did good communication about things.
But also, I made a thing! In honour of the Parasol Protectorate books ghoti introduced me to, or maybe Firefly, I made a steampunk parasol. I bought a folding lace parasol, and took some cogs, and attached some to the spokes, and some round each panel of the parasol. And used a picture hook pin to attach one to the top and bottom of the shaft, sized at just narrower than the diameter, and loosened just enough they don't feel loose but do spin.
Having entirely cogs that are fixed without spinning seemed sad, these were great.
And I was really pleased, because I'm rarely able to actually *make* something.