RTMD
I have read the manual (dummy)
I have put a lot of pins on a beer mat
Dropped all the pins
Found all except four
Stood on chairs
Stood on my step ladder
Changed in and out of my woollie several times
Trod on the dog several times
Viewed myself from a number of angles in a mirror which will only allow approx ¾ of a view (as long as you're prepared to view yourself while levitating in a horizontal position at about shoulder height)
Stuck pins and unstuck them
Discovered that inside out isn’t quite the reverse of outside out
Reversed the bits that weren’t outside when inside should have been out.
In short, (but that would have been very boring) I have sewed and made a garment.
Here it is.
My coffee has gone stone cold and the power is having another intermittent day (it’s quite wild and windy out there). Also Blogger seems to be having an intermittent day..well an off day actually and I’ve discovered that my lap top isn’t really connecting itself to the internet, it’s been connecting to…er??? The other computer? I really don’t know. It won’t connect when the other one’s off anyway.
Shame, I thought it was being so clever :)
That's odd, I had typed :) in the posting window but it came up as J in the published post! weird.
10 comments:
Uh oh......
May the connection gods find it in the hearts to reconnect you?
And personally, I like the scarf with the hold in the middle and the seams up the side!
What a clever idea!
I have soooooo many scarves that would work well with--now I'm gonna wonder who's machine I can snag!
Ack!
WHOSE. I meant WHOSE!!
*sigh*
My fingers couldn't keep up with my brain and took another shortcut dangit!!
I knew what you meant anyway Mel:) And I'm wondering why I kept typing J!
My fingers seem to have wandered all over the keyboard...maybe I wasn't concentrating :)
Great photographer, great cook and now I learn great seamstress. Is there no end to your talents, I wonder?
I have a great poncho pattern, which I knit - but can also be used for any two pieces of material. . .
just take two rectangles of A4 proportion and join them in an L-shape (so the short side of one joins the long side of the other at one of the corners, yeah?) (do it with a couple of pieces of paper to see how easy it is)
then join the opposite edges by twisting the material together - leaves a head shaped hole in the middle
can be worn with "corner points" down at front and back, less bulk over arms; or with "corner points" going along the length of your arms, leaving a straight flat front and back (depends on your tum and your bum basically)
very versatile!!
and then, once you've got the knack of it, you can vary the shape of the rectangle to make a wider slash neck or deeper V-neck, depending on which way you wear the poncho (points down, or lengthways across arms)
or, even, if you knitted it, pick up the stitches around the neck line and add a roll-neck by knitting round and round in a circle, or add a collar by knitting left to right to left to right backwards and forwards until the collar is the right size
(if you're not a knitter, buy some tweed and do the rectablge thing and then fringe the bottom edge of the tweed farbic - very effective)(if you are a knitter it works equally well in StSt or Garter)
:-)
oh - yours is lovely BTW
can imagine you floating around in that in the summer evenings, under twinkly lights, at a fmaily do!
So proud of you! Thats fantastic!!!
Okay.....that's it.
I'm getting my laptop and crawling in bed.
All SORTS of talents popup when you become a bedblogger!
nice job! sewing is very gratifying.
I think I'm good at sleeping too considering how little of it I do:)
That took me a few minutes I, working out which bits went together! I now have a paper poncho. Fantastic :) But alas I am not a knitter. I can only knit holes with bits of string round the edges (another of my talents Thursday)
Thanks Sam...nowhere near as impressive as your hat though:)
Dormant talemts Mel:)
It is indeed Kyah and I so love a bit of gratification:)
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