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Yeah. This computer's completely fucked, so tonight I need to do a backup of my files, or at least as many as possible. Whee!
I have projects to sew, and I'm having to force myself not to work on the fun ones for myself, but the ones for other people instead. See, I bought that Pirates of the Carribean pattern, while having a shocking moral breakdown yesterday, but I can't make it. No fabric...for that. And I left the DVD at home so I can't figure out how the collar that I'm going to add goes anyway.
But I could make a long fitted evening coat. If I was feeling suicidal that is, because it entails cutting most of the coat out of another garment, that isn't quite big enough, and not at all replaceable, then filling in missing bits with one (or possibly two) other kinds of material and adding turned-back cuffs to it.
Or I could go get a bunch of Timtex (the stuff inside your baseball cap) and make some bowls. That's sort of a time-definite one - although the evening coat could be time definite because I could wear it to the holiday party next week...
I like having to make no more of a taxing decision than which orgy of fun project I want to throw myself into.
I think I'll go get the Timtex and come back and figure out the piecing pattern for the coat. I'd like to do the long seams by machine, but given the experience with the Tudor (which I'd also like to finish today, but that's just attaching the skirt to the bodice and the veil on the headpiece) I'll probably wind up doing a lot of handwork. Still, my mother has a serger, and one thing I know is that my chosen fabrics always survive longer if I serge and machine-sew them.
I have projects to sew, and I'm having to force myself not to work on the fun ones for myself, but the ones for other people instead. See, I bought that Pirates of the Carribean pattern, while having a shocking moral breakdown yesterday, but I can't make it. No fabric...for that. And I left the DVD at home so I can't figure out how the collar that I'm going to add goes anyway.
But I could make a long fitted evening coat. If I was feeling suicidal that is, because it entails cutting most of the coat out of another garment, that isn't quite big enough, and not at all replaceable, then filling in missing bits with one (or possibly two) other kinds of material and adding turned-back cuffs to it.
Or I could go get a bunch of Timtex (the stuff inside your baseball cap) and make some bowls. That's sort of a time-definite one - although the evening coat could be time definite because I could wear it to the holiday party next week...
I like having to make no more of a taxing decision than which orgy of fun project I want to throw myself into.
I think I'll go get the Timtex and come back and figure out the piecing pattern for the coat. I'd like to do the long seams by machine, but given the experience with the Tudor (which I'd also like to finish today, but that's just attaching the skirt to the bodice and the veil on the headpiece) I'll probably wind up doing a lot of handwork. Still, my mother has a serger, and one thing I know is that my chosen fabrics always survive longer if I serge and machine-sew them.
