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Did more stuff today.
I sewed a 15-inch seam on a project that had been sitting in the basket by the couch for about a year, meaning that’s now almost a wearable garment– I need to hem one little thing, and then I have another altered jacket to wear.
Then I rethreaded the serger from white to black. I couldn’t find the fourth black cone, so I put the rainbow cone back in the upper looper spot, so it’s mostly black but the binding stitches, which are the most visible, are rainbow. It’s the little things. I should do it fluorescent, but rainbow will do for now.
I then sewed the t-shirt balaclava, and hemmed a strip of t-shirt to be a headband, because I have a shortage of winter hats that actually accommodate my hair, and somehow I don’t have any proper winter headbands.
I still have to cut the eye opening in the balaclava, and hem it, but I figure I’ll do that by hand. Photo below the cut of how hilarious this thing looks with the eye hole not really cut.
I also dug out another jacket I had seam-ripped the sides of, meaning to add panels to make it fit better, and measured to figure out what side the panels need to be. I should write a fucking book about how to alter clothes to be bigger; all people ever do in refashions is cut big garments down and that’s really not something I’ve basically ever had to do, so. How To Make Two Tiny Shitty T-Shirts Into One Big Enough T-Shirt could be, like, my master’s thesis. Ugh.
I did write a bit, I got about 2700 words. I’d feel more bad, but I mean. I’m way behind, that’s not usual for me, but it is what it is. I broke 5k, which puts me pretty far behind schedule, but I’ve proven in other years that honestly if I’m not too busy, I can write 50k in a week, so. We’ll see.
And I dug out some snow pants that I had set aside last year, meaning to similarly alter, but not quite knowing where to start– they’re blaze orange, entirely, and extremely insulated, so I don’t know how I’d add a panel, or where. And I tried them on, and… they… fit. I’m not any smaller, I think I’ve just given up. They wouldn’t be comfortable to sit in, but I honestly don’t care. So I have blaze orange snow pants. I will need them maybe once, at the farm, if I go hunting. I probably won’t wear them to walk to work unless it is hella fuckin cold. They’re visible from space. They’re overalls but they fit my bust because they uh, don’t go that high. It’s kind of funny. Anyway. I also ordered rain pants, which I ought to be getting next week, which will guarantee that it won’t rain anymore, but. They were only about $45. And the orange snow pants were $17 on clearance last year, so.
I also cut out and assembled a printout of a pattern for a vest, which maybe I”ll actually make now that I have actually assembled the pattern. I want a quilted wool vest, and all the ones I could buy are either nylon, or for men. Fuck that. So I’m gonna make one out of scraps and patchwork first, just to test the pattern, and then I’ll maybe cut into some nice wool yardage I have.
Anyhow… Now I have a chicken in the oven, which I thought was going well until I checked on it after 30 minutes and discovered that the oven, set to 400, was at 225… I lit a burner experimentally and the oven roared back to life. It’s working just fine now, after that unnerving hiccup. The chicken is going to be only two dinners this week; it’s a tiny one that was too small to bother cutting up when it came up damaged during processing, so I stuck it in a baggie and froze it. I’m making progress on cleaning out that freezer; I threw out some sausage patties from 2013 today, and am going to bring a big hunk of beef Dave’s mother bought us (weirdly?) to some friends next weekend for a lovely homemade dinner at their house. (It’s my bestie, and she was like, come and craft, and I was like my craft is going to be cooking you dinner, guys, because otherwise we always get takeout which is fine but honestly I’d rather cook just this once!)
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Did more stuff today.
I sewed a 15-inch seam on a project that had been sitting in the basket by the couch for about a year, meaning that’s now almost a wearable garment– I need to hem one little thing, and then I have another altered jacket to wear.
Then I rethreaded the serger from white to black. I couldn’t find the fourth black cone, so I put the rainbow cone back in the upper looper spot, so it’s mostly black but the binding stitches, which are the most visible, are rainbow. It’s the little things. I should do it fluorescent, but rainbow will do for now.
I then sewed the t-shirt balaclava, and hemmed a strip of t-shirt to be a headband, because I have a shortage of winter hats that actually accommodate my hair, and somehow I don’t have any proper winter headbands.
I still have to cut the eye opening in the balaclava, and hem it, but I figure I’ll do that by hand. Photo below the cut of how hilarious this thing looks with the eye hole not really cut.
I also dug out another jacket I had seam-ripped the sides of, meaning to add panels to make it fit better, and measured to figure out what side the panels need to be. I should write a fucking book about how to alter clothes to be bigger; all people ever do in refashions is cut big garments down and that’s really not something I’ve basically ever had to do, so. How To Make Two Tiny Shitty T-Shirts Into One Big Enough T-Shirt could be, like, my master’s thesis. Ugh.
I did write a bit, I got about 2700 words. I’d feel more bad, but I mean. I’m way behind, that’s not usual for me, but it is what it is. I broke 5k, which puts me pretty far behind schedule, but I’ve proven in other years that honestly if I’m not too busy, I can write 50k in a week, so. We’ll see.
And I dug out some snow pants that I had set aside last year, meaning to similarly alter, but not quite knowing where to start– they’re blaze orange, entirely, and extremely insulated, so I don’t know how I’d add a panel, or where. And I tried them on, and… they… fit. I’m not any smaller, I think I’ve just given up. They wouldn’t be comfortable to sit in, but I honestly don’t care. So I have blaze orange snow pants. I will need them maybe once, at the farm, if I go hunting. I probably won’t wear them to walk to work unless it is hella fuckin cold. They’re visible from space. They’re overalls but they fit my bust because they uh, don’t go that high. It’s kind of funny. Anyway. I also ordered rain pants, which I ought to be getting next week, which will guarantee that it won’t rain anymore, but. They were only about $45. And the orange snow pants were $17 on clearance last year, so.
I also cut out and assembled a printout of a pattern for a vest, which maybe I”ll actually make now that I have actually assembled the pattern. I want a quilted wool vest, and all the ones I could buy are either nylon, or for men. Fuck that. So I’m gonna make one out of scraps and patchwork first, just to test the pattern, and then I’ll maybe cut into some nice wool yardage I have.
Anyhow… Now I have a chicken in the oven, which I thought was going well until I checked on it after 30 minutes and discovered that the oven, set to 400, was at 225… I lit a burner experimentally and the oven roared back to life. It’s working just fine now, after that unnerving hiccup. The chicken is going to be only two dinners this week; it’s a tiny one that was too small to bother cutting up when it came up damaged during processing, so I stuck it in a baggie and froze it. I’m making progress on cleaning out that freezer; I threw out some sausage patties from 2013 today, and am going to bring a big hunk of beef Dave’s mother bought us (weirdly?) to some friends next weekend for a lovely homemade dinner at their house. (It’s my bestie, and she was like, come and craft, and I was like my craft is going to be cooking you dinner, guys, because otherwise we always get takeout which is fine but honestly I’d rather cook just this once!)
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