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• Post #3056114

  I'm hyperfocused on #sewing at the moment, and since watching Twin Peaks for the first time recently, I can't stop thinking up black and white chevron and red velvet outfits. It's hard to find wide stripes on garment fabrics though, and I'd probably be out of my depth with the pattern drafting. Trying to both get it to fit and get perfectly aligned chevrons at the same time sounds like a headache... Watching The Closet Historian with all her gothy vintage stripe...

• Post #3056113

  Any recs for good, comfortable thimbles for #sewing by hand? Needs to accomodate long nails. My classic metal bucket shaped thimble just annoys me, so I keep taking it off, but my new blisters tell me I should probably be using it. 🫣 I'm considering digging out some leather scraps and making a leather thimble, but I fear it'll wear out quickly and I don't want to have to keep making them. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

• Post #3056112

  I made a leather thimble out of scraps I saved from some old boots. I left the thread tied in a bow in case I need to adjust it later, so now my middle finger feels very sexy. 🌝 @linguacelta suggested superglueing a second piece of leather inside on the pad, and the result is rock hard. Great idea!

• Post #2467266

  Getting my tonsils yoinked today. Goodbye, stinky lumps of trash! It's a minor procedure, but I haven't been under general anaesthetic before, so I'm slightly apprehensive.

• Post #2467261

  The amount of sass that tech shoves in my face pisses me off. I didn't "forget" to leave a review. I don't want to be reminded later. I don't want to be polite and say "no thanks," because I didn't want to see the damn popup in the first place! But even the option to say "no thanks" insteas of "fuck off" is a best case scenario these days. Moving on from Windows has helped, but websites and...