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Jun. 21st, 2020 04:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaCould not brrain on Thursday and Friday, so work was a bust.
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Started working on a new embroidery design: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn7b4WAggX/
It's a set of frangipanis with some leaves. I've decided to make them bi flag colours. The first flower went okay until I got to the pink, and foound the small arm section between petals was IMPOSSIBLE to do well with the other threads in the way, so for the next two flowers I did those small pink bits first, THEN went in to do the blue center and purple middles. I've got the pinks of one flower left to do, and I should be able to finish the leaves quite quickly, except I'd like to try something different and do fishbone stitches with alternating colours. I don't know how that will work out.
Two observations:
- I really have got to get a proper pair of scissors with sharp tips. I've got a short scissors but it's not great at cutting very close to make the thread ends invisible. I may have to start sewing on top of the thread ends instead.
- Two-handed stitching is really harder than it looks. It took me a while to realise that I was still treating the hoop as if I was still holing it. And my left hand is underused to holding the needle. Where my right hand moves the tip smoothly from pointing one side to the other, the other hand doesn't have the same muscles so I've had to manually move the needle in that hand with my other hand. It's very weird??
I'm not particularly ambidextrous, but I do on occasion move my mouse from my right, dominant hand to the left (so I'm not wild about ergonomic mouses as a result) and while I can't do fine motor work like on Photoshop, I'm somewhat competent at it. But using needles in my left hand is a whole new thing. I've stabbed my right hand a couple of times already.
Still, according to the Internet, this is a learning curve and eventually it all gets faster, so I'm hoping it does! I'd love to be like the one amah in this video.
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I HAD this expectation that I was going to finish writing, longhand, the novel I had been working on last year for the Clarion write-a-thon.
I had written a good hefty chunk of it into the leftovers of a notebook I had been using for grad school (one of those 5-subject notebooks, I rarely finish each section over the course). I even started typing them up (into Scrivener even! And then that selfsame computer died).
I had brought home the notebook to continue the draft in, to type stuff up and all.
I had not remembered that I actually had commandeered another 5-subject notebook to continue the draft in, and ... did not bring home the rest of it.
THIS NOVEL FEELS SO FUCKING CURSED I AM SO DEMORALISED RIGHT NOW and maybe I should change my write-a-thon goals instead and write some short fiction instead?? AUUUGHH. I don't know what to do!! I also have another pulp novel idea that I'd like to get started on?? UGH. i hate my writing life rn
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Started working on a new embroidery design: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn7b4WAggX/
It's a set of frangipanis with some leaves. I've decided to make them bi flag colours. The first flower went okay until I got to the pink, and foound the small arm section between petals was IMPOSSIBLE to do well with the other threads in the way, so for the next two flowers I did those small pink bits first, THEN went in to do the blue center and purple middles. I've got the pinks of one flower left to do, and I should be able to finish the leaves quite quickly, except I'd like to try something different and do fishbone stitches with alternating colours. I don't know how that will work out.
Two observations:
- I really have got to get a proper pair of scissors with sharp tips. I've got a short scissors but it's not great at cutting very close to make the thread ends invisible. I may have to start sewing on top of the thread ends instead.
- Two-handed stitching is really harder than it looks. It took me a while to realise that I was still treating the hoop as if I was still holing it. And my left hand is underused to holding the needle. Where my right hand moves the tip smoothly from pointing one side to the other, the other hand doesn't have the same muscles so I've had to manually move the needle in that hand with my other hand. It's very weird??
I'm not particularly ambidextrous, but I do on occasion move my mouse from my right, dominant hand to the left (so I'm not wild about ergonomic mouses as a result) and while I can't do fine motor work like on Photoshop, I'm somewhat competent at it. But using needles in my left hand is a whole new thing. I've stabbed my right hand a couple of times already.
Still, according to the Internet, this is a learning curve and eventually it all gets faster, so I'm hoping it does! I'd love to be like the one amah in this video.
--
I HAD this expectation that I was going to finish writing, longhand, the novel I had been working on last year for the Clarion write-a-thon.
I had written a good hefty chunk of it into the leftovers of a notebook I had been using for grad school (one of those 5-subject notebooks, I rarely finish each section over the course). I even started typing them up (into Scrivener even! And then that selfsame computer died).
I had brought home the notebook to continue the draft in, to type stuff up and all.
I had not remembered that I actually had commandeered another 5-subject notebook to continue the draft in, and ... did not bring home the rest of it.
THIS NOVEL FEELS SO FUCKING CURSED I AM SO DEMORALISED RIGHT NOW and maybe I should change my write-a-thon goals instead and write some short fiction instead?? AUUUGHH. I don't know what to do!! I also have another pulp novel idea that I'd like to get started on?? UGH. i hate my writing life rn