Six partially folded red lumps of fabric with a strip of grey interfacing along the bottom of each one
Aaaand hem interfacing done. Now (I think) I'm up to sowing. But first some planning for the rest of the costume, which will be tomorrow because I am beat. This is quite labour intensive I have to say, fun though!
Ironing on the interfacing with a makeshift ironing board. A towel over the table, then the fabric and interfacing, and then a tea towel on top as a fabric protector layer thingy. The iron is sitting on the top slowly ironing the interfacing and fabric together
Four completed pieces of interfacing ironed onto the corresponding red fabric pieces. They are laid out on the table
This is such a budget setup lmao. Major bits of interfacing ironed on, still got some hem allowance areas to figure out though.
Black inner lining with white chalk lines running down the wrong side of the fabric
Pieces of red fabric laid out on my makeshift ironing board, a towel on top of the table. An iron is on the corner
Actually correction, ironing on the interfacing is first. I saw a recommendation online to mark all the wrong sides of the fabric with chalk lines so I went and did that as well
All the cut pieces of fabric laid out on the table, including the grey interfacing, black lining and red external fabric
I have... a lot of sowing to do...
Cut out pieces of the black fabric lining and grey interfacing lying on the table
That went faster than I thought tbh. Next up, sowing!
Charcoal interfacing fabric lies on the table with white chalk marks on it. A pair of scissors lies next to it
Aaaand the interfacing. This was annoying because I don't actually need much, but that long one is just slightly longer than the width of the fabric, and more than a meter, so I had to get two metres of this Dx
Part two, inner lining boogaloo time
Their political party vote polls are pretty solid, it's their polls on issues that are egregiously bad and should be ignored
Because American butter sucks, so it's cheaper
Ohhh actually good call
I need to go outside to the supermarket to buy food, but have you seen outside
I'm always somewhat heartened that NZs opinion of trump is so relentlessly negative
The Plastic Guru might be my favourite of the new songs
This new Gorillaz album is very good. I've been enjoying the singles as they came out, but the whole album is just banger after banger
Picture of part of chch airport, the dusk covered port hills are visible in the distance
I do love landing from a flight to ~news~
Can't beat the Christchurch autumn evening though, there's just something about the still cool air that is wonderful
5-10 minutes a day of torment nexus is good for the soul
Yup, it's definitely autumn
I would expect the US to pretty quickly gain air dominance, something Russia has been unable to do. Once that happens the war looks very different imo
I'm very curious how that works
Aaaaand finished cutting, phew every step takes forever. Still got some inner lining stuff to cut up, but that can happen at a later date, I think I'm done for today 😅
Burgundy fabric on a table, rolling off the edge and onto the floor. The fabric has faint white chalk marks on it
Pattern tracing done, next up is cutting the fabric 😬😬😬😬😬😬🤮
Pieces of brown paper on top of a burgundy fabric, there are a number of pins in the bits of brown paper, and a piece of white chalk at the bottom of the image
Size cut done, now to pin to the fabric and trace
Close up picture of one part of the pattern that has been cut out along the lines to its final shape
Rough cut down, now to trim to size, no going back now
Picture of a kitchen table with a partially cut out garment pattern paper on it, the paper is draping over the edges of the table. A pair of scissors are on top in the centre of the image
I'm gonna need a bigger table
I'm nothing if not ambitious 😅
On my way to spotlight to get some fabric before I try make my first ever piece of clothing myself, and it's vaguely terrifying
And any attempt to run a command style economy is still going to require cost/benefit analyses to decide is it worth spending E.g. more labour hours running a library, or making more solar panels by running a factory longer
Yeah I read it and the overall point seems to be that you can use money as an arbitrary token in a command style economy to direct where resources should go. Which is true, you can do that!
But it doesn't deal with real resource limits, there's only so much steel/concrete/labour/water available.
Things have definitely started getting a bit cooler here on the southern side of the world, enjoy the warmth you're stealing!
I think this is the strongest southerly ever recorded at this station though, all the stronger records are westerly winds funnelling through the Manawatu gorge (except that strongest one that I don't think is real)
