Next round
This...this is what's happening with the next skirt. Solid for the waist and pocket bits, wee pattern part for the rest of it. In theory, it's about two or three sewing sessions (the nebulous time frame that encompasses 'how long I can work on this before I get bored and/or sore and need to put it away). This might happen over two or three days, or it might happen over weeks or months, depending on how badly I want to wear it and how hectic the rest of life is.
So I hated my pants
So a year or so ago I realized I had a bunch of sensory issues with...um...pants. What can I say, my brain is weird, I have sensory issues with lots of things. But the more I realize 'oh hey, that's a sensory thing, I can mitigate that,' the better my life gets (no really, so many of the things that got called 'anxiety' suddenly went away when I realized 'oh, hey, that scratchy shirt tag/those flickering lights/that buzzing noise is sucking all my will to live and tolerating it is requiring all my focus and attention and energy). So I [...]
Small smugnesses
I am, much to my surprise, currently...sewing something. And I find myself with a question for those of you who sew more than me. How do you decide how which bits of leftover fabric to keep and which ones to throw away? Not what size do you keep, because I suspect that's actually pretty variable (I know it is for me and yarn). But like what factors do you take into consideration when you're deciding? And do you trim your fabric down so what's left is closer to being a regular shape? Or do you just leave all those [...]
Stanch the Bleeding
When last we left the pillow, it was in a rather precarious state, feathers open to the world, at the mercy of any of the Kitten Overlords. I want this pillow to be an elongated tetrahedron (think a 4 sided die, stretched). So basically I needed to close the open side up perpendicular to the original seam. It quickly became apparent that this would be an iterative process. First stanch the bleeding by whatever means necessary (the feathers wanted to escape everywhere). In this case, binder clips. The next step was to get a seam - any seam - in [...]
Amoeba? Or Egg?
I am a firm believer in both sweaters and pajamas. And sometimes, when a sweater has put in lots of hard service as a piece of 'go out in the world' clothing, it gets to retire and be relabeled as pajamas. Such was the case for this snuggly, purple zip up sweater with a handy kangaroo pocket on the front. It is too tatty to wear out in public (I do have some standards), but it works perfectly well as something to sleep in (ah my life is so glamorous). Or at least it did, until today, when I noticed [...]
Printing…not on paper
I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a very good chance that most everyone in your life has a birthday more or less every year. I, personally, find this super irritating. I've decided I'm just about as old as I need to be, and most folks I know (at least most over the age of 25 or so) feel the same. Alas, it's not in my power to change. So given that pesky reality, I occasionally find myself in need of birthday presents. I ran out of ideas for these things long long ago, so I've taken to blatantly [...]
Proof
I'm not the sort to make the bed. I really have a hard time seeing the point. My bed is not a decorative object, it is an object of use. Making the bed makes it prettier, but less useful. I'm opposed to this on philosophical grounds (it's the same objection I have to many of the world's more ludicrous shoes...they may make me prettier, but they also make me less useful). I'm also deeply lazy. So I more or less never make the bed. I did, shockingly, make an exception for the new duvet covers. Just this once mind you. [...]
Iron Age
I stand by my position that sewing is poorly named. The activity we call sewing is mostly ironing with occasional spurts of other activities to leaven the tedium. I spent about 10 hours putting together two duvet covers and two pillowcases this weekend, and I'd say about 2 hours were spent actually sewing. The rest were spent ironing, measuring, ironing, pinning, ironing, cutting, and ironing. Given the scale of the project (huge), the complexity of the sewing (low), and the intended final result (rumply wrinkly bedding), I determined I would do the absolute minimum necessary amount of ironing (a good [...]
Beginnings
I'm making duvet covers. I plan to be making duvet covers for the next several days. I fully expect this to eclipse more or less all the knitting for the next week or so. You've been warned. The goal is two, twin sized, linen duvet covers. You may recall I got the fabric when we were in San Francisco. I realized at the time that 19 yards of fabric was a lot. Somehow I'd forgotten just how much it was until I dumped it out on the table (sewing happens on the dining room table around here). It's really quite [...]
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