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OK I am not the most connected-to-reality person in this whole world but I thought I had a basic, hard-won understanding of the way a couple things worked about Basic Physics. But here’s what was going on with the serger: The two needles were coming unthreaded.
But the thread wasn’t breaking. OK? How could that happen? Like– the needles have eyes that are intact circles (OK ovals, whatever)– no breaks in them. The thread goes from one side through to the other; the thread is a continuous piece. If the thread does not break, how can it come out of the needle????? But it keeps happening to one, or the other, or both of them? ??? ?? ??
I don’t know. I finally stopped it from happening by, and this is weird, sitting there with the cover open, and turning the wheel by hand, and watching the loops form. I watched it for a little while, and since then it hasn’t done it again. Or, no, it unthreaded one of the needles, but I noticed and fixed it. It hasn’t done it again since then, and I’ve put together three garments.
So like.
?????
You don’t fix things by looking at them! Also solid objects don’t pass through other solid objects!! Fuckin, witchcraft, man.
Anyway. I guess I’m. Happy? That it’s working? Ish?
Some of my progress behind the cut, and some philosophies on the concept of refatshioning.
One Shitty Thing About Huge Tits: you need XXXL t-shirts to fit over your hoots, and then the rest of you is swimming in said t-shirts. And it’s easy to take in the waist of a shirt or whatever, but– the shoulders. Oh god the shoulders. I am so tired of every t-shirt I own having shoulder seams across my biceps, and the “short” sleeves hit at my elbow crease.
(image: this shirt has no relation to my actual human anatomy beyond the fact that I have arms somewhat near to my neck– but like, nearer than that, bro?)
So, on impulse, I just put on one of my shirts and pinched out the excess, then marked it with chalk, and just took a pair of scissors and just cut out all that extra fuckin’ fabric. It’s so stupid; even women’s shirts assume that if you have a 50″ chest you must be shaped like Schwartzenegger. BZZZT WRONG I have size M shoulders and XXXL hoots. Funny, weight gain tends not to increase the size of my skeleton. WEIRD, THAT.
So, the dark blue shirt is an unaltered men’s XXL, and the light blue is the (ha “ladies’ XXL” but it’s definitely a men’s cut) shirt I just cut a big fuckin’ chunk out of. Then I matched up the shoulder seams again, and sewed the hole shut; the body side was a little bigger than the sleeve side so I just eased it in all gentle-like, since it was on the bias which means it’s kind of wiggly anyway. It’s possible the difference will be too extreme once I cut the dark blue shirt, in which case I’ll put in a dart– I’ll just pinch and make a little fold to make the bigger side match the smaller side. The clumsy chalk marks might be inadequate, or might work, we’ll see. It’s stretchy, so if I fuck up it’ll probably still work one way or another.
(image: a pair of blue t-shirts. dark blue is haphazardly marked with chalk but is clearly in its original configuration. light blue has a random awkward seam next to the sleeve; it’s inside-out and you can see that the new seam is serged.)
The necklines are just raw; I hate tight shirt necks so I just cut them out and hand-sew them down. You could also turn it under and zig-zag topstitch it, if you had a machine that worked, you know. But I like to embroider.
I also cut off the dark blue shirt just under the bust, added a waistband made out of the middle of a white t-shirt, and hung a white muslin skirt off of that.
Lookit: shoulder fits my actual shoulder now. Weird awkward seam? no worries, everything about me is weird and awkward.
(image: look the light blue t-shirt has a sleeve seam that hits at the point of my shoulder where the arm joint actually is! also i need to water that spider plant in the background.)
OK I am not the most connected-to-reality person in this whole world but I thought I had a basic, hard-won understanding of the way a couple things worked about Basic Physics. But here’s what was going on with the serger: The two needles were coming unthreaded.
But the thread wasn’t breaking. OK? How could that happen? Like– the needles have eyes that are intact circles (OK ovals, whatever)– no breaks in them. The thread goes from one side through to the other; the thread is a continuous piece. If the thread does not break, how can it come out of the needle????? But it keeps happening to one, or the other, or both of them? ??? ?? ??
I don’t know. I finally stopped it from happening by, and this is weird, sitting there with the cover open, and turning the wheel by hand, and watching the loops form. I watched it for a little while, and since then it hasn’t done it again. Or, no, it unthreaded one of the needles, but I noticed and fixed it. It hasn’t done it again since then, and I’ve put together three garments.
So like.
?????
You don’t fix things by looking at them! Also solid objects don’t pass through other solid objects!! Fuckin, witchcraft, man.
Anyway. I guess I’m. Happy? That it’s working? Ish?
Some of my progress behind the cut, and some philosophies on the concept of refatshioning.
One Shitty Thing About Huge Tits: you need XXXL t-shirts to fit over your hoots, and then the rest of you is swimming in said t-shirts. And it’s easy to take in the waist of a shirt or whatever, but– the shoulders. Oh god the shoulders. I am so tired of every t-shirt I own having shoulder seams across my biceps, and the “short” sleeves hit at my elbow crease.
(image: this shirt has no relation to my actual human anatomy beyond the fact that I have arms somewhat near to my neck– but like, nearer than that, bro?)
So, on impulse, I just put on one of my shirts and pinched out the excess, then marked it with chalk, and just took a pair of scissors and just cut out all that extra fuckin’ fabric. It’s so stupid; even women’s shirts assume that if you have a 50″ chest you must be shaped like Schwartzenegger. BZZZT WRONG I have size M shoulders and XXXL hoots. Funny, weight gain tends not to increase the size of my skeleton. WEIRD, THAT.
So, the dark blue shirt is an unaltered men’s XXL, and the light blue is the (ha “ladies’ XXL” but it’s definitely a men’s cut) shirt I just cut a big fuckin’ chunk out of. Then I matched up the shoulder seams again, and sewed the hole shut; the body side was a little bigger than the sleeve side so I just eased it in all gentle-like, since it was on the bias which means it’s kind of wiggly anyway. It’s possible the difference will be too extreme once I cut the dark blue shirt, in which case I’ll put in a dart– I’ll just pinch and make a little fold to make the bigger side match the smaller side. The clumsy chalk marks might be inadequate, or might work, we’ll see. It’s stretchy, so if I fuck up it’ll probably still work one way or another.
(image: a pair of blue t-shirts. dark blue is haphazardly marked with chalk but is clearly in its original configuration. light blue has a random awkward seam next to the sleeve; it’s inside-out and you can see that the new seam is serged.)
The necklines are just raw; I hate tight shirt necks so I just cut them out and hand-sew them down. You could also turn it under and zig-zag topstitch it, if you had a machine that worked, you know. But I like to embroider.
I also cut off the dark blue shirt just under the bust, added a waistband made out of the middle of a white t-shirt, and hung a white muslin skirt off of that.
Lookit: shoulder fits my actual shoulder now. Weird awkward seam? no worries, everything about me is weird and awkward.
(image: look the light blue t-shirt has a sleeve seam that hits at the point of my shoulder where the arm joint actually is! also i need to water that spider plant in the background.)
