Weekend Success
May. 11th, 2026 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaI opted not to go to blood donation. I wasn't sure how soon after an iron transfusion one should give their blood away so I rebooked for after I see the gyn for a follow up at the end of the month. So I didn't leave, and that meant I didn't go to any stores.
Pulled out Jenny the Janome for buttonholing. She was struggling with forming stitches. I pulled the bobbin race open to reset it, and then tested the bobbin for tension. It was really really tight! I had to loosen it a full turn and a half of the screw! What the heck was I doing last? Buttonholes all done, I lost bobbin chicken on the very last one but luckily the vintage device and striped material meant I could line it up for a new pass pretty easily. Then I put on all of the buttons, and finally sewed on two pant hooks into my Lucille trousers. Woooo!! Successful day!
Yesterday I rotted, mostly. Made my week of journal pages, made a food, knit two rows while Calcifer was sleeping, played silly video games, both on my phone and on the Switch. Discovered a poor little spood in the sink who refused to be helped, a deceased one in the whizzer I was going to use for salad dressing, and a big black one in between the inner and outer doors, and swore off doing anything in the kitchen. It's their kitchen, I'm just working in it.
On Saturday night I was oozing deeper into the couch and thinking about how the thing that would fix me is a new sweater. (Narrator: this would not, in fact, fix them) I've been poking around the vintage patterns in Ravelry for ideas, so we'll see. I am DETERMINED to have more me-made makes this year, especially for winter. It is going to take me forever to knit a sweater when, even napping, Calcifer still woke up long enough to thoroughly investigate my project. Must be considered hehe.
Tonight though, I just need to make a food and my evening is mine. Definitely want to do some sort of stitchy something. We'll see.
Pulled out Jenny the Janome for buttonholing. She was struggling with forming stitches. I pulled the bobbin race open to reset it, and then tested the bobbin for tension. It was really really tight! I had to loosen it a full turn and a half of the screw! What the heck was I doing last? Buttonholes all done, I lost bobbin chicken on the very last one but luckily the vintage device and striped material meant I could line it up for a new pass pretty easily. Then I put on all of the buttons, and finally sewed on two pant hooks into my Lucille trousers. Woooo!! Successful day!
Yesterday I rotted, mostly. Made my week of journal pages, made a food, knit two rows while Calcifer was sleeping, played silly video games, both on my phone and on the Switch. Discovered a poor little spood in the sink who refused to be helped, a deceased one in the whizzer I was going to use for salad dressing, and a big black one in between the inner and outer doors, and swore off doing anything in the kitchen. It's their kitchen, I'm just working in it.
On Saturday night I was oozing deeper into the couch and thinking about how the thing that would fix me is a new sweater. (Narrator: this would not, in fact, fix them) I've been poking around the vintage patterns in Ravelry for ideas, so we'll see. I am DETERMINED to have more me-made makes this year, especially for winter. It is going to take me forever to knit a sweater when, even napping, Calcifer still woke up long enough to thoroughly investigate my project. Must be considered hehe.
Tonight though, I just need to make a food and my evening is mine. Definitely want to do some sort of stitchy something. We'll see.
