- Have decided to alternate a project for me with a project for someone else for a while
- Need a quick sew for a palate cleanser
- Going to continue with some Indie testing
- Remember when those emails from the Big 4 saying new seasons patterns were so exciting?
- Now mostly I think who would wear that
- Strong sense of running out of ideas
- Anyone else thinking this?
- Got to make some golf shirts
- Also need to learn how to be a better house painter
- Since my husband is not taking his golf shirts off this year
- Miss Daisy has a friend who has lost his sight
- Poor Garth is sad
- But she waits outside his house until he comes out
- And goes to stand quietly beside him
- Never did this before when he could see
- Do you think I am a shallow person
- When the first thing I think of is what will I wear
- Let's work on your bunker shots says the spouse
- Let's figure out a tab front without a pattern I think
- Going back in the classroom two mornings this fall
- They needed a pinch hitter
- Am I working on the syllabus?
- No
- Am I cutting out a new dress this afternoon?
- Yes
- I was once in the fabric store when a woman came in to buy fabric to be buried in
- We decided lilac was a lovely choice
- I never make any of these things up
- Know a 95 year old woman who one night wondered if she should bother to paint her toes
- Has lived alone for 40 years
- But if I stop now she said
- What will I stop next?
- So she painted them
- Have you ever grown celery?
- One of the best kept secrets of the universe is that the fresh stuff has flavour
- Not like the stalks of garden hose we dutifully buy and dice and add
- Just because the recipe says so
- I am thinking I should make biscotti
- Can you make it without nuts or would that just be a rusk?
- I don't think a person who should be making a dress should waste her time baking rusks
- Does anyone?
- If so they should learn to sew
- Maybe I should stop listening to my sister
- The one who said watch Outlander
- I made myself promise I would only watch it while I cleaned the kitchen at night
- Man does that stove sparkle
- Lot of unanswered questions there
- Didn't Claire miss running water when she traveled back in time?
- I mean wouldn't you?
- Me my idea of camping is an RV with a shower and AC
- And that Jamie believes anything
- Season three isn't available here until August
- Good thing
- Otherwise I might be in the kitchen long enough to be making rusks
- And what kind of sense would that make?
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Sunday, July 29, 2018
Flypaper thoughts Sunday morning edition
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7 comments:
1) time travel stories always have huge practical holes in them. I’m watching 11.22.63 and keeping saying under my breath “My, that man’s an idiot.” Won’t spoil it further, although they did magic the money problem. 2) I have made biscotti before with cranberries and chocolate chips; pretty sure they aren’t rusks, but they don’t travel well. 3) I’ve had professors in grad school tell us “we’ll discover the syllabus as we go along,” which seems to be the hippie approach to getting out of paperwork. Not how I roll, but it appears to work for some. Looking forward to seeing the dress.
OMGosh! Too funny. Thanks, Barbara for making me laugh on this Sunday afternoon when I should be taking a day off, but have to plan for w.o.r.k. for the week. Primary Election in 9 days. Just a tad more than 300 days 'til retirement and more sewing! And weaving for the sewing. =)
Please. Keep painting the toes! I took my mom for a pedicure (which I knew she had never experienced) about 3 weeks before she left us to cope on our own without her quilting and sewing expertise anymore. She didn't think it was that big a deal. Ah, well. For me it was fun to be with her.
Jaaaaa, biscotti! You don't need nuts, but almonds and dried cherries are mighty nice. And chocolate biscotti, too. Just a little cocoa. Now if I could figure out how to watch Jamie and Claire in the kitchen....
PS Claire's knitted pieces are mighty inspiring too.
Hi Barb,
This is a comment on your previous post about legging construction....it was very useful. I have a pair of Avery leggings - the only pair I have made so far. Based on your post, I can take them back to the machines and improve them in two or three places. My leggings don't have to be super strong BUT I do think that top stitching that gusset is a good move. I have great machines and need to really make better use of the stitches and construction methods that are available to me! Thanks for the education! Looking forward to seeing your new dress..
So thrilled you got into Outlander. (FWIW, Claire grew up living rough with her uncle the archaeologist, so a lack of running water is probably no biggie for her. In the books she even explains to Bree and Roger how they managed without loo paper.)
To keep this about sewing, I started making the Simplicity Outlander underpinnings (8152) yesterday. I now own a chemise. Bum pad is up next.
PS on another topic: I just discovered that Australian Stitches has stopped publication. :-(
Jen good for you to take on the Outlander gear, must be interesting sewing. Too bad about Aussie Stitches folding. I stopped writing for them when Lynn Cook who was wonderful to work with, retired. The new ownership seemed to be very confused. But we need all the sewing mags we can find and I had a great time writing for them, helped me keep up my connection to my happy memories of living in Melbourne.
It's Sunday evening, the house is quiet and I'm sitting in the kitchen reading your flypaper thoughts, laughing quietly. What a great way to end the day / week and perfect way to go to sleep. Thanks for that.
And yes, I agree about the Big 4 seeming to run out of ideas. Some of the garments have me turning my head to odd angles to see if they make more sense that way...they don't. The rest...I *have* seen before! Many times. Does that mean I've lived too long??
On that note, good night. And pleasant dreams.
Such a treat to discover some "Flypaper Thoughts"! I totally agree about the new patterns - repetitive, bunchy (really, who looks good in bunchy?) and the potentially interesting elements are disguised by the fabric chosen to make them up for the pictures.
I'm not sure if its lack of inspiration or lack of good business sense. Lucky kids to get you back in the classroom! Or online? Cold weather IS coming, I'm told.
ceci
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