30 Seconds of Purring Cat
Aryabhata, I have things to do today, things that require me actually standing up and moving around… (30 seconds of purring cat)
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Under the Weather
Quick note to anyone I owe things to that I’ve been under the weather this week. Some random bug I picked up from Kavi (Kev and I just got back our mandatory PCR COVID test results, negative, so it’s not that). She missed two days of school last week with sore throat and general exhaustion,
Overwhelming Cuteness of Hearplanets
Sewed a few more scarves for the Valentine’s sale. I am overwhelmed by the cuteness of Kavi’s “Heartplanets” design.
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Hopping Back on the Exercise Wagon
cw: exercise. So, I’ve hopped back on the exercise wagon, after a few months of not managing it consistently. Honestly, it was pretty rocky during the whole pandemic — initially, I think I was fairly depressed, and my activity levels took a sharp nosedive during lockdown. While that improved for a while last summer, I
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Two Fabrics, One Project Bag
Trying something new, pairing two fabrics for a project bag. So cute! This is my own tardigrade fabric (very subtle, very tiny little adorable polka dot tardigrades) paired with an Indian-style block print. I think this bag would be perfect for a sewing kit (it’s big enough to hold a full-size pair of sewing scissors,
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Scarves and Witchers
Sewed a few scarves last night while watching Witcher in the basement with Kevin. (We’re up to season 2, episode 5 — the show is sort of silly and very over-the-top, but it’s grown on me, I can’t quite say why!) This is Kavi’s “Heartplanets” design, and I’m unreasonably fond of it. We’ll have a
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Murder + Cooking
Nice to start the morning with a little project bag sewing and a British detectoring show. I finished Foyle’s War — very good, I’d put it up next to Vera and Shetland for my favorites. Now watching Pie in the Sky, an older show about an almost-retired detective who’s just opened a fine dining restaurant.
Should I Avoid the Fray?
Sewing question. When I make a channel for a drawstring, there’s a tiny edge of raw fabric where you insert the drawstring. That’s unavoidable, right? I can’t figure out a geometric way to fold / sew that so I can still insert the drawstring without having a raw edge. Should I be doing something to
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Bags Are Flexible
Made another quick little project bag. It’s very satisfying, using these to finish off fabrics. Bags are very flexible — you can make them wide, you can make them tall, there aren’t any rules. And it’s giving me a reason to dig into my stash of cool buttons that I’ve collected over the years…
“Library Love” Project Bag
Cute! These are going to be one-offs, I think; I’ll make them as I feel like it.
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