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Dec. 5th, 2017 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaYesterday I sewed and had a Skype session with Irene's class and jolantru!
Today I--
- Submitted all my paperwork for my dissertation today! Walked to campus, waited until the Grad Division person was free, then handed her my sheet of signatures and some candy and did a couple of Ho-oh raids! She's gonna have a look at my diss revisions and then if it all works out I'm good to go!
- Popped into Starbucks to see Lindsay, and we met up for dimsum lunch afterwards. Decent dimsum, although the noodle rolls were more noodle than anything else, PLUS had all this corn in it!! WEIRD. Still, the lotus leaf rice was excellent, and one can never go wrong with the steamed spare ribs.
- Finished the new bag today, with a pearl-handed zipper! The zipper area was hard to figure out and I TOTALLY miscalculated how much fabric to cut, but I folded stuff over and I think it looks interesting. And anybody who gets it and wants more top-space can undo the small stitches I put in.
The problem is that the fabric isn't great for the kinds of little pouches I've been making, and I still have a LOT of it. So I'm a bit at a loss of what to do. I might try my hand at making fascinators and bowties. It's got a great goth aesthetic (outlines of skulls in red) so who knows! Maybe it'll make for some wonderful fabric flowers.
- Had to clear my desk a bit in order to plug in earbuds. My roommate is, I think, bothered by how loud I play podcasts while I'm sewing (and I have to have it that loud because I can't hear it over my sewing otherwise. Man I have a lot of crap on my desk.
Tomorrow I--
- Am talking to another of Irene's classes! At 8am. LoL. Wish me luck. I'm sleeping early tonight for that.
- Need to take a long walk. I didn't walk today and pretty much sat and sewed all day. I should probably also do some reps.
- Have to do that writing assessment assignment!!!! I think I've got a good grip on the voices of these stories, and they're much more enjoyable than I thought they would be.
- Will make another bag! This one will be a regular sling bag, maybe reversible even. I guess I should try doing some other style, but this is really quite so utilitarian and the pattern is so unfussy, so I don't really see any reason to do anything else. Then I'll make some fabric flowers, maybe a giant bowtie or two. Hopefully that will use up the last of this skull fabric, and maybe the other red fabrics too, so I can move on.
I also need to cut out some circles for pokeball purses! I definitely need some thicker material for the red and white, but the black stuff I have for the base is really nice and sturdy. I'll cut out a bunch and that'll give me a good sense of how much I need for red and white fabrics. I'm thinking felt, too. I'll also need a ton of zippers.
jolantru! Today I--
- Submitted all my paperwork for my dissertation today! Walked to campus, waited until the Grad Division person was free, then handed her my sheet of signatures and some candy and did a couple of Ho-oh raids! She's gonna have a look at my diss revisions and then if it all works out I'm good to go!
- Popped into Starbucks to see Lindsay, and we met up for dimsum lunch afterwards. Decent dimsum, although the noodle rolls were more noodle than anything else, PLUS had all this corn in it!! WEIRD. Still, the lotus leaf rice was excellent, and one can never go wrong with the steamed spare ribs.
- Finished the new bag today, with a pearl-handed zipper! The zipper area was hard to figure out and I TOTALLY miscalculated how much fabric to cut, but I folded stuff over and I think it looks interesting. And anybody who gets it and wants more top-space can undo the small stitches I put in.
The problem is that the fabric isn't great for the kinds of little pouches I've been making, and I still have a LOT of it. So I'm a bit at a loss of what to do. I might try my hand at making fascinators and bowties. It's got a great goth aesthetic (outlines of skulls in red) so who knows! Maybe it'll make for some wonderful fabric flowers.
- Had to clear my desk a bit in order to plug in earbuds. My roommate is, I think, bothered by how loud I play podcasts while I'm sewing (and I have to have it that loud because I can't hear it over my sewing otherwise. Man I have a lot of crap on my desk.
Tomorrow I--
- Am talking to another of Irene's classes! At 8am. LoL. Wish me luck. I'm sleeping early tonight for that.
- Need to take a long walk. I didn't walk today and pretty much sat and sewed all day. I should probably also do some reps.
- Have to do that writing assessment assignment!!!! I think I've got a good grip on the voices of these stories, and they're much more enjoyable than I thought they would be.
- Will make another bag! This one will be a regular sling bag, maybe reversible even. I guess I should try doing some other style, but this is really quite so utilitarian and the pattern is so unfussy, so I don't really see any reason to do anything else. Then I'll make some fabric flowers, maybe a giant bowtie or two. Hopefully that will use up the last of this skull fabric, and maybe the other red fabrics too, so I can move on.
I also need to cut out some circles for pokeball purses! I definitely need some thicker material for the red and white, but the black stuff I have for the base is really nice and sturdy. I'll cut out a bunch and that'll give me a good sense of how much I need for red and white fabrics. I'm thinking felt, too. I'll also need a ton of zippers.