Just one thing: 19 June 2023

[jazzyjj]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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[word_geek]

I got the sewing machine out

I didn't do anything fabulous with it, but there were a bunch of little things. I mended a hole in my housecoat and split an old tablecloth into two (it does not fit the current dining table, but the small versions fit the table outside). And I nametagged something and finished up a bag that I had abandoned midway through making. I also remembered why I abandoned the damn bag! But it's done now

It's likely to be months before I get the machine out again but at least I no longer have sewing things on my to do list, even if I do have a lot of fabric sitting waiting for me to get inspired again

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Sewing is awesome.

I know how to use a machine, but I'm no good at keeping one running. So I wind up hand-sewing everything.

Re: Go you!

[word_geek]

I did that for the first thing I actually sewed after a break of umpteen years. Actually, the first two things. One was a costume and the other was an actual dress I really wore.

Now I mostly do things like make bags and turn cheap but pretty remnants into very poorly made furoshiki, so we can wrap presents at Christmas without having to have All The Paper afterwards. I have only just got to the stage where I am willing to gift the fabric with the present, and that was to my lovely friend who won't examine my rolled hem too closely. Turns out that I'm too impatient for handrolling, but machine rolling requires magic with an iron. Apparently, there is a machine foot to resolve the issue but so far I've not bought it.


My problem with dressmaking is the patterns, not the sewing. So annoying to paste together PDF patterns and cut them out, and so frustrating to work with bought patterns. Selfdrafted is amazing when I can make it work, but...
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Re: Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Now I mostly do things like make bags and turn cheap but pretty remnants into very poorly made furoshiki, so we can wrap presents at Christmas without having to have All The Paper afterwards.<<

That's cool.

>> Turns out that I'm too impatient for handrolling, but machine rolling requires magic with an iron. Apparently, there is a machine foot to resolve the issue but so far I've not bought it.<<

I do handrolling, but then a majority of the fabrics I sew will hold a fingerpressed crease long enough, so it's not much bother. I can't leave a raw edge unless it's something like the inside of a collar facing. I use various methods to roll or close seams, depending on what I'm making.

>> My problem with dressmaking is the patterns, not the sewing. So annoying to paste together PDF patterns and cut them out, and so frustrating to work with bought patterns. <<

I bought a role of butcher paper so I can copy patterns to that. It's a lot easier than working with tissue paper. Worth mentioning: some historic pattern companies print theirs on heavy paper, not tissue. It costs more, but you get what you pay for.

>> Selfdrafted is amazing when I can make it work, but...<<

I've done that. It's easy with simple patterns and doable with moderate ones. Fussy pieced things like a fitted blouse, I found that too much bother even working from a commercial pattern.

Look for instructions on how to make slopers, that's a base pattern that you can then modify. You can also find instructions on how to make patterns for some historic garments. There are some good references online, even whole books, on how to create or modify patterns. You just have to devote some time to digging them up. Another good use for a big roll of butcher paper, because then you don't have to piece together small pages.

[readera]

I did a few loads of laundry at the laundry mat. They are now put away & the clean linens are on the bed. Plus I called my dad to say hi for father's day.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I called my dad too. \o/

[word_geek]

I hate doing laundry runs. And making the bed up the day the linen got washed? Amazing

[jazzyjj]

I also did laundry yesterday, since it was my day. A neighbor did his in between my loads, despite numerous people telling him that Monday is my day to do laundry. But ah well, we both got it done. Then I hung out more with him and my personal assistant.





Worked out again which was fun.





Bonfire with my neighbors last night.

[silveradept]

I cut the grass and explained to a passing person the meaning of the pride flags flying outside.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I got my half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics posted. There's already a pool going too.

[azurelunatic]

Sorted through a lot of objects in the tray that I keep by my seat on the couch. Selected many of them as Not Belonging There, at least not in the long-term.