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totchipanda) wrote2025-05-12 07:52 am
totchipanda) wrote2025-05-12 07:52 am
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On Friday I was watching a video when I got home, but I did take my buttski into the kitchen and washed a pan of dishes before making Tumblr's best grilled cheese sammich for dinner. I'd have to dig up the link, but the overview is LOTS of butter (no skimping!), a sweet element (honey), a tart element (dijon mustard), an herb (dill), and at least 2 cheeses. I only had one, but it was still delicious. My honey was mostly solid and only a tiny bit liquidly, but I got enough to enjoy a sweet pop here and there. Very yummy, yes. Then I grabbed the last bit of whatever fabric I'd used to make a pair of Pietra pants and cut out Loretta shorts. I have enough to make the bib as well, but I don't need that right now so I left it uncut.
On Saturday I woke up with a strong pulling in the left side of my throat when I swallowed so I forwent coffee and had tea. (GASP SHOCK) Made myself PB & saskatoon jam toast for breakfast and then sat down to sew. Shorts are now in two halves, awaiting a zipper for the back (grump grumble I have thicc zippers and invisible zippers but no regular zippers. I intend to correct that as soon as I am able). It IS easier to do the zipper while the pieces are still separate OK FINE I ACCEPT THAT bc I totally did it for the Millicent skirt hehehe. I pinned it together for a very careful try on and... I think it's gonna be too big. Nuts! Easy enough to adjust probably but... nuts. Spent the rest of the day in increasingly pretzelly positions on the couch playing video games, until dinner time when I made spaghetti sauce and pasta, and washed another pan of dishes. Then I had insomnia so I was up until something silly like 330 AM reading fanfic.
Hockey game WAS tied but the Knights scored at literally at the last second and won. Nuts.
Yesterday the pulling was gone, so coffee time it is! I'd forgotten the iron was still plugged in but that was OK because I needed to steam the waist of the slip, so that's now done. I sat down to trim down a skirt pattern but oh, I already did that! So after I finished my show, I taped it together and put it away. Put a couple other patterns away. Then cut a Barbara bodice to test. I did a straight size 10 D/DD and it's a little too big at my chest for an un-supported look, so I put on a store-bought bra and that was then too tight bc this bra does not fit me well above the bust apex. Band and wire sizes, perfect 10/10 no notes, but the cups have SO MUCH ROOM above the apex I could definitely have fit kittens in there and I should have tried when they were still small enough to do little more than stare at me. It came so high on my chest that it was digging into my arms. Finally had enough so... I pinned out a tuck, did some stupid fiddly cutting, struggled HARD with getting my machine to stitch through 1/4" of foam (turns out I just needed to use a 100/16 needle instead of my usual 80/12) and it's far from the prettiest thing but now I have a bra that doesn't try to sever a limb. I WILL get new ones (this one is already several years old, and I absolutely plan on salvaging the wire and elastic) soon, but for now, it works.
By then is was around 430 so I decided it was time to get dinner underway. I tried out the multi-cooker my dad gave me, an absolutely massive not-InstaPot, to pressure cook some beans. And you know what, it worked. 20 minutes and they were perfect. Made chili and cornbread and washed TWO pans of dishes. The rest of my evening was more video games.
I am on vacation again next week. No plans to do anything but stay home. Obviously want to sew all the things!!! I do need to get started on the pockets for my side gig (hehe) and that is easy weeknight sewing. I want to get a cutting mat to make many things easier, including that. Just need to decide on what to do! My plan is to NOT be sick so that I may enjoy every day and not spend it in bed wishing I didn't hurt so much. We'll see how well I manage that lol.
On Saturday I woke up with a strong pulling in the left side of my throat when I swallowed so I forwent coffee and had tea. (GASP SHOCK) Made myself PB & saskatoon jam toast for breakfast and then sat down to sew. Shorts are now in two halves, awaiting a zipper for the back (grump grumble I have thicc zippers and invisible zippers but no regular zippers. I intend to correct that as soon as I am able). It IS easier to do the zipper while the pieces are still separate OK FINE I ACCEPT THAT bc I totally did it for the Millicent skirt hehehe. I pinned it together for a very careful try on and... I think it's gonna be too big. Nuts! Easy enough to adjust probably but... nuts. Spent the rest of the day in increasingly pretzelly positions on the couch playing video games, until dinner time when I made spaghetti sauce and pasta, and washed another pan of dishes. Then I had insomnia so I was up until something silly like 330 AM reading fanfic.
Hockey game WAS tied but the Knights scored at literally at the last second and won. Nuts.
Yesterday the pulling was gone, so coffee time it is! I'd forgotten the iron was still plugged in but that was OK because I needed to steam the waist of the slip, so that's now done. I sat down to trim down a skirt pattern but oh, I already did that! So after I finished my show, I taped it together and put it away. Put a couple other patterns away. Then cut a Barbara bodice to test. I did a straight size 10 D/DD and it's a little too big at my chest for an un-supported look, so I put on a store-bought bra and that was then too tight bc this bra does not fit me well above the bust apex. Band and wire sizes, perfect 10/10 no notes, but the cups have SO MUCH ROOM above the apex I could definitely have fit kittens in there and I should have tried when they were still small enough to do little more than stare at me. It came so high on my chest that it was digging into my arms. Finally had enough so... I pinned out a tuck, did some stupid fiddly cutting, struggled HARD with getting my machine to stitch through 1/4" of foam (turns out I just needed to use a 100/16 needle instead of my usual 80/12) and it's far from the prettiest thing but now I have a bra that doesn't try to sever a limb. I WILL get new ones (this one is already several years old, and I absolutely plan on salvaging the wire and elastic) soon, but for now, it works.
By then is was around 430 so I decided it was time to get dinner underway. I tried out the multi-cooker my dad gave me, an absolutely massive not-InstaPot, to pressure cook some beans. And you know what, it worked. 20 minutes and they were perfect. Made chili and cornbread and washed TWO pans of dishes. The rest of my evening was more video games.
I am on vacation again next week. No plans to do anything but stay home. Obviously want to sew all the things!!! I do need to get started on the pockets for my side gig (hehe) and that is easy weeknight sewing. I want to get a cutting mat to make many things easier, including that. Just need to decide on what to do! My plan is to NOT be sick so that I may enjoy every day and not spend it in bed wishing I didn't hurt so much. We'll see how well I manage that lol.