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The urge to finish (anything! ANYTHING!)
May. 21st, 2016 11:14 amIt's the weekend, which means it's time for light schoolwork only. There will be coffee at the neighbour's in a bit, and there are dishes to be cleaned, toilet bowls to be scrubbed and laundry to be washed.
Truth be told, the laundry is nearly done. Eisirt suddenly stepped in and folded laundry, in order to make room in the dryer for the next load, while I was happily pattern drafting.
The past weeks have filled me with the urge to FINISH STUFF NAO! Juggling three school assignments right before the end of the year, each with numerous steps to be completed before finishing them and handing them in makes me uncomfortable. (I'm re-watching the Ally McBeal series and I heavily identify with The Biscuit, for some strange and bizarre reason.)
That's why I've been pulling at Eisirt to sit down and watch the season 4 final episode of Game of Thrones with me (so we'd finish the season).
I've been knitting on the Harvest cardigan (so close to being finished!) instead of the pair of socks I'd planned to enter into a little sock-knitters-club contest that needed to be done by the end of May (I'm stuck with fitting issues after the first heel).
Even finishing a milk carton and crumpling it up fills me with a deep gratitude of at least having finished something, as tiny and insignificant as it is.
The shirt is very nearly finished though. I've got to press and sew the rolled hem and then tackle buttons and buttonholes. I'm still practicing sewing on buttons on a shank, and it's a little tricky still. Sewing them on lah-di-dah will have me finish (a-ha) a button under two minutes, but buttons on a shank take longer -- and the teacher insists on them. Every button I sew on, I do the official way, just so I get to practice.
The jeans block is pretty great, but the crotch is too tight. I'll have to fiddle with the margins a bit, to see if I can widen the front leg/crotch depth and the back leg/crotch depth a bit. Eisirt's got a pretty bottom in it, perfect for the hunky dory pants, but they do need to be comfortable. In normal jeans fabric, the front bulge might not even be too obvious, but I've got a black canvas cotton and it'll show.
I'm saving tomorrow for my blazer pattern. If all goes as I planned, teacher José will check my blazer pattern and jeans block on Monday, and nothing stands in my way of a whole lotta sewing.
Truth be told, the laundry is nearly done. Eisirt suddenly stepped in and folded laundry, in order to make room in the dryer for the next load, while I was happily pattern drafting.
The past weeks have filled me with the urge to FINISH STUFF NAO! Juggling three school assignments right before the end of the year, each with numerous steps to be completed before finishing them and handing them in makes me uncomfortable. (I'm re-watching the Ally McBeal series and I heavily identify with The Biscuit, for some strange and bizarre reason.)
That's why I've been pulling at Eisirt to sit down and watch the season 4 final episode of Game of Thrones with me (so we'd finish the season).
I've been knitting on the Harvest cardigan (so close to being finished!) instead of the pair of socks I'd planned to enter into a little sock-knitters-club contest that needed to be done by the end of May (I'm stuck with fitting issues after the first heel).
Even finishing a milk carton and crumpling it up fills me with a deep gratitude of at least having finished something, as tiny and insignificant as it is.
The shirt is very nearly finished though. I've got to press and sew the rolled hem and then tackle buttons and buttonholes. I'm still practicing sewing on buttons on a shank, and it's a little tricky still. Sewing them on lah-di-dah will have me finish (a-ha) a button under two minutes, but buttons on a shank take longer -- and the teacher insists on them. Every button I sew on, I do the official way, just so I get to practice.
The jeans block is pretty great, but the crotch is too tight. I'll have to fiddle with the margins a bit, to see if I can widen the front leg/crotch depth and the back leg/crotch depth a bit. Eisirt's got a pretty bottom in it, perfect for the hunky dory pants, but they do need to be comfortable. In normal jeans fabric, the front bulge might not even be too obvious, but I've got a black canvas cotton and it'll show.
I'm saving tomorrow for my blazer pattern. If all goes as I planned, teacher José will check my blazer pattern and jeans block on Monday, and nothing stands in my way of a whole lotta sewing.
