ok, i did the darts. do I reallllllllllllly have to put interfacing in the pockets? they are going to go in the side seams and they are lined. i kind of hate interfacing?
but if i need to do that, that's the next step.
bought some pans and cocoa powder from King Arthur Flour. Followed it up with a "huge lot" of old bias tape on ebay. feeling ok about my choices.
we have online craft club once a week, alternating friday nights and sunday mornings.
tonight, I made progress on the shirt I am sewing - it took me two tries to pin the bottom band on correctly, and it turns out the hem I took out of it two weeks ago was fine and I could have left it. sewing gets me good and befuddled.
I moved recently and my craft room is set up in the spare bedroom (the sewing machine is set up most of the time!) but it's a duplex, and the sewing machine is near a shared wall. I haven't calibrated how loud is too loud and too late. It's only 8p, but the room is near empty and echo-y and I don't feel good about doing more sewing. maybe tomorrow afternoon.
I need to start another crafting project - I have a cross stitch kit I want to start, but starting things is hard! I have to iron the aida, pick a starter color, and get it going. It will be so much easier once I get the first few stitches in!
I'm not so sure about this, but I have found friends on Twitter and Mastodon, so this could work too! I'm a 40-something data scientist, but I'd rather post about sewing, cross-stitch, baking, and reading. I'm generally reading a handful of fiction and avoiding a stack of non-fiction that would be good for me.
My current sewing project is this shirt and I'm reading book 7 of wheel of time. I'm not too sad that I finally started that series. plz no spoilers.
I'm also reading Anna Karenina with my partner, at about a chapter a day. We've never read it so it's new and exciting, every revelation a surprise.
I recently moved house, and I baked the first loaf of bread here last weekend. It was oatmeal-raisin and I have eaten it all.