2020-04-05

neotoma: Loki from Thistil Mistil Kistil being a dingbat (Loki-Dingbat)
2020-04-05 07:19 am
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Sewing badly (Larch Day, 17th of Germination, Year 228)

With the new directive to wear a face covering when out in public, I have gone into my small stash of fabric looking for quilting cottons that I can make into masks.

I am buy no means great at sewing, though I've made linings for felted bags I've made; I'm competent enough, and I found two yards of the pig print I'd saved for lining a felted pig-shaped bag that I've had half finished forever. I can can certainly sacrifice most of it to turn out a few masks.

But first, I've found a flora print that will be the prototype mask; I'm reasonably certain it's 100% cotton, which is the recommended fiber.

I've also found my lucet, with the cording I made in the hope of making my own shoelaces (I couldn't find any short enough for a particular pair of shoes!), that might work as ties for the mask.

Wish me luck.
neotoma: Neotoma albigula, the white-throated woodrat! [default icon] (Default)
2020-04-05 07:12 pm
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Listening to vintage radio gets weird sometimes

Tonight, I'm listening to an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar... and apparently Alan Reed was a guest actor this episode, because I'm like "why am I hearing Fred Flinstone deny that he had his warehouse burned down for the insurance money...?"