Adventures in Domesticity
Jul. 21st, 2020 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpegghostEver since going deep into the USDA's "Homemaker's Chat" from the 40s, I've fallen into the need to become domestic. I've looked at everything, from "Canning Chicken" to "Drying Corn" to "Waste Fats For Explosives". Somewhere between the pages of baking corn kernels and glycerin warfare did I fall into the need to sew.
Really, really badly.
I was going to sew tablecloths! Towels! Half-curtains! Dog bandannas! My house was going to be a wasteland of fabrics and I would triumphantly produce decent things to make my house with Alex above the rest. Look out Williams and Sonoma, I'm making DECORATIVE TABLE RUNNERS.
At least, that's what I have told myself so far. I don't know how to sew. Both my mom and grandpa know how to sew (he even reupholsters furniture when he's bored), so I'm hoping that some sort of genetic ability to work a heavy pointy machine will come into play and I will be able to work a machine without maiming myself. I bought a cheap towel and some fabric to start with, but as for a sewing machine? ... They were out of stock. In fact, Texas is now taking this whole 'Covid-19' thing so severely, every store I've been to is out of stock of machines because everyone is making masks. I can't even find these machines online.
So for now my dreams of sewing like a madman are quelled. Here's the fabric I picked up; The towel is my victim, the grey autumn print will be the fabric put on it horizontally. The cat, pumpkin, and owl print was an impulse purchase I'll shove on some different project.
I also made basil salt! It's gourmet, in theory! I gave some to Alex's mom since she is in constant need of my aggressively-growing basil plant and I have more than I know what to do with. Behold, Nickelodeon-green salt (that becomes mint green after the drying process).
Really, really badly.
I was going to sew tablecloths! Towels! Half-curtains! Dog bandannas! My house was going to be a wasteland of fabrics and I would triumphantly produce decent things to make my house with Alex above the rest. Look out Williams and Sonoma, I'm making DECORATIVE TABLE RUNNERS.
At least, that's what I have told myself so far. I don't know how to sew. Both my mom and grandpa know how to sew (he even reupholsters furniture when he's bored), so I'm hoping that some sort of genetic ability to work a heavy pointy machine will come into play and I will be able to work a machine without maiming myself. I bought a cheap towel and some fabric to start with, but as for a sewing machine? ... They were out of stock. In fact, Texas is now taking this whole 'Covid-19' thing so severely, every store I've been to is out of stock of machines because everyone is making masks. I can't even find these machines online.
So for now my dreams of sewing like a madman are quelled. Here's the fabric I picked up; The towel is my victim, the grey autumn print will be the fabric put on it horizontally. The cat, pumpkin, and owl print was an impulse purchase I'll shove on some different project.
I also made basil salt! It's gourmet, in theory! I gave some to Alex's mom since she is in constant need of my aggressively-growing basil plant and I have more than I know what to do with. Behold, Nickelodeon-green salt (that becomes mint green after the drying process).
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Date: 2020-07-22 01:59 am (UTC)That said, I think the hardest parts of sewing are threading the machine and sewing a straight line.
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Date: 2020-07-22 02:05 am (UTC)I can't imagine. I'd be traumatized and never touch a machine again.
There is nothing straight about me so I believe I will be in for quite a ride.
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Date: 2020-07-22 03:04 am (UTC)I recommend a rectangular template of some sort, a rotary cutter, and the self-healing green board that goes with the rotary cutter.
You might also be interested in a fun kind of applique that Mama got into: fabrics with fun pattern, put some iron-on adhesive on it, cut it out, iron it to another fabric that needs decorating, stitch it in place and/or use puffy paint to cover the cut edge.