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2019 sewing plans
I took stock of the cloth I'd got and not yet used, or been given for Christmas. It's a lot! My main plan for this year, as a result, is to use what I've got instead of buying more of anything. I expect I might crack at some point during the year, but I certainly need to make a good dent in the stash before that point.
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A year in sewing
This year wasn’t so much about learning to sew (which was 2016) or getting more confident (2017): it was a year of really getting into my stride with the whole thing. About this time last year I got myself a little black Moleskine notebook to be a sewing planner and record, and I wrote some aims for 2018 sewing. They went roughly along the lines of ( Read more... ) -
Five things make a post
My home computer has broken down, and my phone is turning unreliable of battery too. Yikes! I do want the computer repaired or replaced, because it has so much on it - old songs and photos and scans of Jinty images (though those are mostly also on Dropbox). I use the phone ever so much more than the computer though - in fact I've hardly been ( Read more... ) -
IGNCC18: Bournemouth
Really enjoyed myself at the Bournemouth event: my paper went well (must put it on the Jinty blog), I met lots of interesting people thinking in interesting ways about comics, and I saw three very different and very special talks the opportunity for which only arises very rarely ( Read more... ) -
Easter holidays - lots of travel, lots of activities
We headed off up north on Saturday lunchtime on the second week of the Easter school holidays - up to Hexham to see Ruth and Sheep and family. They have a lovely large home which they rescued from being a near-ruin and are slowly turning into something rather magnificent. In the meantime even though there are various building site bits of it, there ( Read more... ) -
Quick run down of the Easter weekend
End of term festivities at the kids' school was slightly impacted by the rain - the Easter Bonnet parade was cancelled but the kids still managed to snaffle an egg each in the egg raffle, so spirits were high when I got home after work on Thursday ( Read more... ) -
Sciatica pt II
Returned to the osteopath on Monday. He confirmed that things aren't any worse but he can't see any particular great change / improvement either - which apparently isn't anything to worry about at this stage (though of course it's annoying). Sciatica typically has a period where you worsen, then quite a long plateau stage where it stays at about ( Read more... ) -
Sciatica
About five weeks ago, on a Friday, I went to pick up the kids from after-school club. I somehow did something to my back, probably as I pushed my bike home (maybe in a more twisted posture than usual, trying to talk to the kids behind or in front of me, or some such). It was uncomfortable over that weekend and on the Monday it was painful enough ( Read more... ) -
Finished Objects: comics blogging and Fielder top in warm wool/linen mix
After finishing B's raincoat (which was a bit of a tour de force) I wanted to be sure to do a bit more bloggery-pokery, otherwise I'd lose the impetus entirely. I've been slightly fitfully posting about the IPC title Sandie, which ran a little earlier than Jinty and not for as long (only 69 issues). This was because I had a lucky break with someone ( Read more... ) -
I should make a sewing icon
It's not all sewing that I've been up to but work busy-ness isn't really the most exciting of things to witter about on my LJ at the moment, or at least I don't mostly fancy writing about that. The sewing is rewarding and fun, so definitely better to talk about ( Read more... )