Jane's Journal

Although being felled by ConCrud on Tuesday night, I spent Wednesday on the couch and am feeling much improved today. It's a bit of a shame I had to call off my intern, but I did get to have my client pick up his 1920s suit today!
Not only that, Kwibus' biological mother's owner with the same first name as me had fallen in love with a tunic I had made and wanted to fit it. It fit her so perfectly and she was all SQUEEEE over it.
That makes today the best-paying day of the year, with some squee and some minor work done.

I had brought some small repairs to the atelier to bide my time until the second client came in. Because what else are you going to do on your last day at work!?
I had pulled a button on the fly of Kseniya's trousers -- somehow I always forget to open the bottom button on the buttoned fly and end up ripping it off as I'm pulling my trousers back up... This is the third time I'm repairing that button and the third time I wore the trousers. *sigh*. Not only that, this time I pulled a little hole in the fabric. Poking a bit of black cotton through the hole into the fly facing and stitching it by machine fixed that weak spot, and then I could sew the button in place with stronger thread than usual. Hopefully, it'll have learned its lesson by now.

Kseniya's tunic also needed repairs. Down the front slit the canvas fabric had frayed enough to come popping from the seam. Nobody will ever notice it without diving into my cleavage, but of course *I* can see it from above, and it's bothering me to no end. Worse, the canvas is loosely woven so it'll keep fraying unless you fix it.
The trick to fixing it was taking the contrast facing off, and the trim that covers the raw edge, turn the facing back to the inside, re-stitch the two seams, apply copious amounts of fray-check and a zig-zag stitch, and put everything back together. All in all, one hour's work for some tricky surgery. Let's hope this is not going to be a thing with these tunics, as I've sold two now.

Furthermore I finished one of the birthday gifts for Kass today and I am near finishing the other. That's a good thing, as we'll be going into town to celebrate on Saturday. I had offered to pick them up from Schiphol, but with the ConCrud they told Eisirt to keep me home if I wasn't feeling better, and now their connecting flight has been canceled. Ugh.

And that just opened up my entire Friday. Could have gone to work anyway. But now my holiday has started, and it's official.
So much time. So much relaxation. What am I going to do for the next two-and-a-half weeks?!!