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abendgules...for a given value of 'summer'.
After a flying visit to my favourite fabric shop in Shepherd's Bush, I spent the weekend scribing (not enough), laundering said fabrics, and houseworking (too much for my taste).
While puttering, I caught The Lavender Hill Mob on TV, a classic Alec Guinness film that I'd never seen before. It was charming as much for its postwar London street scenes, with antique cars careening down streets almost free of traffic, as for the plot.
For pre-war views, I watched The King's Speech, something I missed in the theatres when it came out. Very worthwhile.
Aside from scribing, my accomplishment of the weekend was sewing spandex on my Pfaff for the first time.
My shiny-new running shorts bought this week are, in fact, Very Short - too short for my taste and, uuuh, comfort. Apparently the cut of 'tight' running shorts for women has changed since I last shopped for such items - shorter legs, and icky low waist to boot.
Rather than taking them back and hunting up alternate (more expensive) ones, I cut up a pair that are expiring, unpicked the hems, and sewed 3" more leg onto the new shorts, using an assortment of stitches that I never need for sewing medieval clothing.
My machine makes some rather alarming grinding noises when forced into the stretch-stitch range. I'm guessing that by using only straight stitch for the first 12 years, it's now set in its ways and objects vociferously at having to learn new tricks.
Robert distinguished himself working on shields, both new and make-do-and-mend varieties.
After a flying visit to my favourite fabric shop in Shepherd's Bush, I spent the weekend scribing (not enough), laundering said fabrics, and houseworking (too much for my taste).
While puttering, I caught The Lavender Hill Mob on TV, a classic Alec Guinness film that I'd never seen before. It was charming as much for its postwar London street scenes, with antique cars careening down streets almost free of traffic, as for the plot.
For pre-war views, I watched The King's Speech, something I missed in the theatres when it came out. Very worthwhile.
Aside from scribing, my accomplishment of the weekend was sewing spandex on my Pfaff for the first time.
My shiny-new running shorts bought this week are, in fact, Very Short - too short for my taste and, uuuh, comfort. Apparently the cut of 'tight' running shorts for women has changed since I last shopped for such items - shorter legs, and icky low waist to boot.
Rather than taking them back and hunting up alternate (more expensive) ones, I cut up a pair that are expiring, unpicked the hems, and sewed 3" more leg onto the new shorts, using an assortment of stitches that I never need for sewing medieval clothing.
My machine makes some rather alarming grinding noises when forced into the stretch-stitch range. I'm guessing that by using only straight stitch for the first 12 years, it's now set in its ways and objects vociferously at having to learn new tricks.
Robert distinguished himself working on shields, both new and make-do-and-mend varieties.
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Nostalgia
Date: 2012-07-16 12:03 pm (UTC)