| Hemming; hints and tips? |
[Jun. 19th, 2013|04:03 pm]
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Hi all,
I'm hoping for the benefit of your wisdom. My dressmaking skills are definitely improving (my lapped zippers are a thing of beauty, I tell ya!), but I still find hemming tricky. For a straight-cut skirt, no problem, but for fuller skirts and dresses, where the hem of the garment is curved, how do you get a nice crisp edge to your hem? And how do you get the hem to sit flat, without puckers or bumps where the slightly larger volume of the turned-up bit won't quite fit? Is there a secret that I'm missing? Some ingenious trick that other people know but I don't? Do I just need to iron the hell out of the hems? Would interfacing them help? Can I clip the turned-up bits to help them sit better? Or make actual little darts every few inches to take in the extra fabric and allow me to use a straight line in between them? Should I give up and use rolled hems on everything? How do you make your hems behave themselves? |
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| Blecch... |
[Jun. 19th, 2013|04:34 pm]
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| | A JUG OF THIS | ] |
( Doodlediary Stuff...Collapse )( Doodlediary Stuff...Collapse )
 Amazy's off her food, and puked on a seat cushion, which I later sat in, natch. I suppose it's the steamy humidity. What's worse, fresh cat puke or cold?
I was pissed off to find that WALLANDER at the weekend was a repeat. Bah. I've also seen that story twice before, at least, in other versions.
THE WHITE QUEEN is pretty sucky so far. The Wars of the Roses are so crazily entertaining, surely they could do better than this with them. It's another one from THE TUDORS people. Absurd as it was, THE TUDORS was outrageous enough to be good/bad.This, so far, is just shite, except for Janet McTeer. I keep noticing how modern-looking they all are, and their zippers are all blatantly on show.
Watched a programme about grotesque porcelain confections so totally overblown, that they actually gave me a sort of nightmare, which I can't now remember. Ahhh! Sevres boat vases!
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| I can feel it in me legs |
[Jun. 18th, 2013|04:10 pm]
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Cycled a good long way yesterday in the big Bella bike - from home to a toddler group in Headington where toddler A and baby B and I met up with  pomma_penses and kiddo, thence to their house for a playdate and bite o' lunch, thence to the JR hospital for an eye check for toddler A. And then a weary way home, in the surprisingly hot sun!
The toddler group was very good, very enjoyable - it's not the sort of thing that I've gone to a lot of, for one reason and another. R goes to a nearish one on a Friday but I've been doing things like housework or shopping and combining that with taking the kids somewhere nearby like the library, which they also like. Obviously I don't think there's anything wrong with each of us doing different things with the little uns, but also I don't think I'd really seen how much fun it was to take them to. It's a really good place for a lot of running around, bouncing, and playing with stuff we don't have at home (A much enjoyed the little trampoline at the Headington one, for instance), and of course it's a great opportunity for socializing, kids and parents alike.
I think one other thing that's put me off in the past is just getting there - R's had the car on a Friday but I don't on a Monday, and until now it's not been possible to just pack both of the kids into a bike and head off. And even since we have had the big bike it's felt a little daunting to cycle any great distance, knowing that I'll almost certainly have to be able to make it back up hill to get home. But after yesterday I think I'm up for anything. Cycling-wise at any rate! |
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| Opera |
[Jun. 17th, 2013|11:36 am]
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Right now I'm working on a watercolor, embroidered piece for the upcoming fifth issue of the Comix Reader, all about the ten months I spent doing fundraising in the weird and wonderful world of opera. This is an out-take.
I hear this issue, edited as ever by Richard Cowdry, will be released in the fall - so excited! |
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