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the new post editor loves to have me type in the title and then take me immediately to the tags field. am i not meant to put any content in this. why are you like this. i won’t know what to tag it until i’ve written it, will i? idk. idk.
it’s only to be expected that i should have spent the weekend thoroughly useless, given all the givens, but i had many things i’d wanted to get done– needed, in some cases– and i’m incredibly annoyed by how much time i spent wandering around the house unable to focus. i didn’t even get any sewing done, though i did cut out and assemble the paper pattern from PDF of the new puffer vest from Cashmerette, which I am going to make out of I think reclaimed dress-wool scraps that Dude’s mom was given as a donation for her quilt guild and of course they quilt in cotton, so she gave it to me. They’re not large enough scraps for me to make anything out of like a dress or trousers but they’re perfect for this vest, which has smallish pattern pieces. And then I can quilt it.
I’m also back messing around with the 1.25" English paper piecing hexagons, which was a thing I got super into a couple of years back and recently found a bag full of. I stopped because Dude’s aunt pointed out I was doing it wrong, but then I was like well, it’s not wrong if it works, so. I don’t know what to make with th. em. A quilted something. Also a puffer vest? I don’t need two, I already own a number that fit acceptably. So I’m just going to keep collecting hexies I guess. A bag maybe. Who knows.
The poll– I want a silk slipdress for layering while it’s cold, whereas the wool trousers are actually– well I’ll have to make a muslin in ponte knit first, which I have some of in whatever that’s usually made of. They’re yoga pants. I still have to assemble the paper pattern. I should do a proper bracket of what’s on my sewing docket, LOL.
I had, when I was frantically sewing lightweight linen dresses for Cartagena, been daydreaming that in those precious two weekends at home between that travel and the next travel– I’m going to a ski place with MM and DF and the kids– I’d knock out some kind of rad winter-wear, but then I had to travel last weekend too and now this past weekend I was a lump. so. That’s not happening. BUT. If I get the puffer vest cut out, I can bring the pieces with me and hand-quilt it, which would be kind of fun and cool and cute I think?? Maybe?? So that’s my new goal.
Failing that, i can just bring a huge pile of paper hexagons and a bunch of fabric and make more hexies for my eventual whatever-the-fuck-that-will-be project.
I had a new idea though, which was that a quilt-as-you-go series of embroidered panels that were the Pokedex would be really fun to make as a wall hanging for some kid. I don’t think I could stay patient enough to do it in real life but I am enamored of the idea. This would be a case for machine embroidery if only I were good at that. And like, you could have some that were just the numbers like when you haven’t seen them, and some that were just silhouettes, and some that were critters. It would be cute!
Maybe something small-scale, like a shoulder bag or something. We’ll see what I manage, if I ever do– it can go on the list with all the other things.
If I had a ton of free time I would also be making myself t-shirts that really fit, since I have that pattern, and I want to then print them as if I’d bought them various places, and I have a mile-long list of slogans I’d love to put on shirts. But I don’t have that kind of time.
Anyway. There’s another round of smubbles going and I’d love to say I’m cranking out fantastic works for it but I am still so stuck on writing, and making only the slowest progress if any at all. Bleh. (Your picture was not posted)
