String Revolution
Nov. 13th, 2010 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheNot least because of String Revolution, today I bought ruffle tape, curtain drawing rods, curtain hooks, and other bits and pieces, and then came home, set up my sewing machine, phoned my mother twice (once to ask how to sort out the bobbin properly - in the end I found a video on youtube - and once to ask how to make the bobbin-threading bit go around; "You usually shove it towards something," she said, and lo, she was right) and I sewed ruffle tape on my front room curtains, the ones I made with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ai731 ten years ago or so, using her machine. Actually, I'm typing this while listening to a CD on her CD player, too.
With ruffle tape attaching the curtains to the rings on the curtain poles, rather than clothes-pegs, and draw-rods to help Rob open and close them, we hope they will come down less.
And soon I will sort out linings for them, to keep us warmer over the winter, which we can also attach with ruffle tape, to the same curtain hooks, I think. I'm not totally clear on that.
But with the sewing machine under my control, I can do almost anything. If I can change a bobbin, there's nothing I cannot do (except control the tension, possibly; I made a hames of the tension today).
Also, I've been reading Landings by Emma Donoghue and feeling much as I did when I read Stir Fry - it's a kind of thinky romance where the twoo wuv doesn't clean up the godawful messiness of real love relationships, but (so far at least) the love story is nice enough that it makes me happy. I like romances that don't make me want to punch people or be sick.
ai731 ten years ago or so, using her machine. Actually, I'm typing this while listening to a CD on her CD player, too.With ruffle tape attaching the curtains to the rings on the curtain poles, rather than clothes-pegs, and draw-rods to help Rob open and close them, we hope they will come down less.
And soon I will sort out linings for them, to keep us warmer over the winter, which we can also attach with ruffle tape, to the same curtain hooks, I think. I'm not totally clear on that.
But with the sewing machine under my control, I can do almost anything. If I can change a bobbin, there's nothing I cannot do (except control the tension, possibly; I made a hames of the tension today).
Also, I've been reading Landings by Emma Donoghue and feeling much as I did when I read Stir Fry - it's a kind of thinky romance where the twoo wuv doesn't clean up the godawful messiness of real love relationships, but (so far at least) the love story is nice enough that it makes me happy. I like romances that don't make me want to punch people or be sick.