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Weekend Retort. Sorta.
So the Healthy Family lady is here and helping us make a toy for Xan involving a water bottle and various things that float and sink in it. But we had to think of things to put into it.
Enter... Crazy Auntie Icka!'s Bag O' Holding™
From the bag:
1 plastic water bottle
8 clear plastic beads
1 fake turquoise bead
13 fake jewels
1 mini rubber pirate devil ducky
1 broken lanyard
1 luggage lock (minus key)
1 hopper popper painted like a yellow baseball.
-the last three didn't go in. Surprisingly, 3 of the beads float, the rest --including the rubber ducky-- do not. *pokes bottle* The grown-ups are confuzzled. Waiting for Xan to wake up from his nap to see what he thinks of it.
Anyway. We were going to do a Murder Mystery this weekend, but everyone was feeling very blah, so we called it a dead weekend and didn't do much. I curled up and got some writing done. Two longfics down to the final scenes! \o/ Yay for clearing backlog!
Did stop by Savers and got a new skirt for free because of the fist-size hole in one seam. A few minutes mending and it's as good as new.
... Am continuously amazed at how few people seem to know how to mend or sew these days. Out of curiosity, Scadians and Tiffany aside, how many people can sew? How many can't? (I can hand sew, but blow up sewing machines. boom, thread and bobbins everywhere. s'not pretty.)
Ficcage: DC/MK - Marry, Shag, Throw off a Cliff
Enter... Crazy Auntie Icka!'s Bag O' Holding™
From the bag:
1 plastic water bottle
8 clear plastic beads
1 fake turquoise bead
13 fake jewels
1 mini rubber pirate devil ducky
1 broken lanyard
1 luggage lock (minus key)
1 hopper popper painted like a yellow baseball.
-the last three didn't go in. Surprisingly, 3 of the beads float, the rest --including the rubber ducky-- do not. *pokes bottle* The grown-ups are confuzzled. Waiting for Xan to wake up from his nap to see what he thinks of it.
Anyway. We were going to do a Murder Mystery this weekend, but everyone was feeling very blah, so we called it a dead weekend and didn't do much. I curled up and got some writing done. Two longfics down to the final scenes! \o/ Yay for clearing backlog!
Did stop by Savers and got a new skirt for free because of the fist-size hole in one seam. A few minutes mending and it's as good as new.
... Am continuously amazed at how few people seem to know how to mend or sew these days. Out of curiosity, Scadians and Tiffany aside, how many people can sew? How many can't? (I can hand sew, but blow up sewing machines. boom, thread and bobbins everywhere. s'not pretty.)
Ficcage: DC/MK - Marry, Shag, Throw off a Cliff
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Haven't gotten around to sewing any full-sized garments by hand, but I love patching seams up. They're easy!
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I find it rather funny I'm still learning and my next major project is a Telma outfit for next year's Kumori-Con. Luckily, my mother knows how to sew and quilt.
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...I want the pirate devil duckie! :D
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Sewing class in middle school was making a pillow. Mine looked like a cherry soda, would have much rather have done something practical like boxers instead.
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I can mend when I'm not lazy (I think...) and sewing w/ an actual machine isn't too bad. I could get better at it with more practice, surely.
*icon love!*
Yeah, the more I sew, the better I get with it. ^^;;
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Love watching TV and sewing at the same time, it makes both pass by faster. ^____^
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Hmm. Seems like a lot of people on f-list do sewing for cosplay.
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But it is still sewing. I'm doing trippy things with cosplay that teach me better sewing techniques overall. I'm going to make myself a pair of shorts after I've rested up from making my cosplay (and found my pattern, it seems to have grown legs and walked off). I don't like the ladies shorts they have out there. They show off more of my muscular thighs than I like (not to forget that my legs stick to everything).
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1 plastic water bottle
8 clear plastic beads
1 fake turquoise bead
13 fake jewels
1 mini rubber pirate devil ducky
1 broken lanyard
1 luggage lock (minus key)
1 hopper popper painted like a yellow baseball.
Icka is a kender! I knew it!
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... I used to play a kender in D&D too, back when I played. ^^;;
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Despite the fact that I'm in the SCA, I still can't make clothing. I can cut, pin and do hems and such, but to make the full thing? Nah-uh. The few cosplay costumes I've done have been handsewing as well, but it's been because of the fabric or style of the costume. (Larva from Vampire Miyu and Naraku from Inuyasha, which was massive amounts of shag fur)
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... I've used a sewing machine to make sketch books?
*I have no excuse for not knowing much though, my mum is really into quilting!*
................ Bottle with mysterious things in it! \o/ Win!
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To make sketch books?! I remember you mentioning that before, how well did it work?
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Yep. And it worked okay from what I remember. Got a good mark on the one I made for the "Arts Plastiques" class and the illustrated book I made for the photoshop class was okay, if a bit curved/eaten by the stitches. Then again, I didn't try to make really fat sketch books. It's keeping the pages flush that's hardest though. ^_^;
And am currently a wee bit envious of wee New Zealanders who learn to cook and sew and do woodwork. In my French school it was barely as if they had a pottery class, though we did learn to solder circuit boards. \o/no subject
-I do a backstitch instead of a running stitch because it's slightly stronger, and I can almost do a backstitch almost as fast as I do a running stitch.
Glad the books came out okay! Was thinking that they were bigger for what ever reason. ^^;;
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Although it was a matter of learning in self defense. There was a uniform in high school, and there was an evil bench in the locker room that somehow tore my hem out on a regular basis. I got tired of pinning it and poking myself, super glue washes out after a few runs in the washer, and so does tape. I sewed it. Sometimes as often as three times a week. I'm very good at hems. Strangely enough, it only tore out the stitching, never the fabric. And yes, I stitched sturdy enough. By senior year, I was using heavy duty thread for upholstery, and knotting at every stitch, and it still got ripped out by that one evil little bench. I wasn't it's only victim either.
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*laughs* Curse that bench!
Learning to sew was also out of self-defence, I'm hard on my clothing and it doesn't hurt to be able to fix it instead of having to get new. There's a couple of patchwork skirts that I think of as 'pet projects', because the seams are always going, so I just patch them up while wandering around watching Xan.
Now I'm finding it's something I can barter with, patching up stuff and replacing buttons for people who can't handsew.
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(Anonymous) 2008-06-03 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
proudashamed of yourself. ^____^no subject
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For me, it's the bobbins. Doesn't matter how old or new the machine is, if someone else was just using it, if someone else did the bobbin, I will put my foot on that pedal and the bobbin will explode every damn time.
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sorry... anyone know the best way to quit coffee?
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Um... switch to tea?
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(Anonymous) 2008-08-31 05:48 am (UTC)(link)