Weekend Retort. Sorta.

[ickaimp]

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

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[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

For seams, I find a back stitch with a whip stitch on top of it holds really really well. Has yet to break on me. ^^;; It's the end knots that I'm not entirely confident with. Been experimenting with a surgeons knot lately and it seems to hold pretty well.

To make sketch books?! I remember you mentioning that before, how well did it work?

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

*Notes down stitch names to look up next time the seams start pulling away. 8D*

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/

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

wikihow (http://www.wikihow.com/Mend-a-Torn-Seam) to the rescue!

-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. ^^;;