Current Mood : Pretty fly, m'self !
It’s one of my ‘me’ days
today – Dearest Son left for an overnight with his grandparents’ along with
Beloved Hubby, who has classes all day. I had laundry on the agenda, and a lot
of use-it-or-lose-it food to whip into breakfast and lunch, possibly dinner.
Beloved’s working tonight. But I also had the rest of a whole day to do as I
pleased.
So I knocked out the chores
first, and got a fresh load of laundry done, then five loads of laundry put
away. It was starting to pile up, but in small drifts scattered throughout the
place. The living room alone had stashes equal to two loads, so did the
kitchen. Not gonna tell you what was hiding in Dearest’s room ! I keep tellin’
my fellas if it’s not in the hamper, I don’t wash it, and if the hamper’s less
than half-full, I don’t do laundry, but I still end up harvesting socks from
every semi-quiet corner around the sofa and front door. I am soooo gonna
leverage this into take-out fried chicken this weekend.
Breakfast and lunch were
mostly made-from-scratch efforts with leftovers, but I used up three sprouty potatoes,
two going-fast eggs, stale bread, a third of a can of bean soup, with the last
of a bag of noodles. Still plenty of
potatoes and bread left for dinner ! Too bad I’m sick of taters for the next
few days…
Work and dining done, I
wanted to sew ! And my little comment on the Flickr page that hosts the Gil
& Lagoona ‘Beach Music Festival’ photo – that I could have easily made Gil
pants, but decided to do shorts, since they drive most fans crazy – kinda bugged
me. I didn’t wanna brag. So I made the pants just like the shorts, but I tried
something new…a fly front ! Normally, I don’t even do a fake fly that fastens
in the back, but I wanted to ‘go for it’, and actually make pants that close in
the front.
Pulled up NG Creations’
third pattern set, and got to it. Had to print out a fresh pattern, as I’d
altered my last two into ‘boot cut’ and ‘sweatpants’ versions during last year’s ‘Boyfiends Week’,
which I need to repeat soon. Followed the directions for piece #22, only to
find them a bit confusing. The pattern’s description says they close in front
with a Velcro ™ fake fly, but the illustrations and directions have the Velcro ™
in the back and a fake fly stitched flat in front. I kinda cobbled it together
my way, and there’s a fly in front with Velcro, just not done very well. But I’ll
improve with practice, and no one can say I lied about making pants as easily
as shorts. I even did the ribbon trim on the sides, for kicks. Plus, I kinda
need practice in keeping ribbon straight as I sew, too.
Just waiting for Beloved to
come home – I think I’ll just goof off the rest of the night. Wonder if I can
find something on Netflix…
Hello from Spain: I like these pants. You know very well. We keep in touch.
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