Busy Me

[sakon76]

Did a little bit more gardening yesterday. Not much. Pulled up a few dead tomato plants, did a little bit of weeding. Made frowny face at whatever decided to eat my cucumber seedlings. I need to plant some more of those, and put them somewhere where they're less likely to get munched.

I also tackled the mending pile. Nine garments; mostly buttons to sew on and popped seams to restitch, with two rips to reinforce. I have only one skirt left to repair (one of the aforementioned rips). I can see the top of my dresser again! And (sorta) my sewing desk. In the process, I finished off two spools of thread. I have like a billion of them, so winnowing them down is always good.

I got a few patterns over the weekend at an estate sale, and my hindbrain wants me to start working on them now. Unfortunately for the hindbrain, I need to finish mockup 3.0 for stitchy's costume by Friday, and then we go to the fabric district on Saturday to purchase fabric for her. I need to finish her costume by the end of the month so that I can start working on mine! I kind of want to get some silk charmeuse for myself while we're there, to make some slips, and about three yards of silk chiffon to make a veil for bellydance class. But given that I have tons of polyester chiffon I could make one from, and that I don't know if Mara is going to have us working with veils again next term, I'm not sure if I can justify the expense on any of the silk right now. I might punt it all to later; after all, I'll need to go back to purchase fabric for my own costume....

Comments

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

Whoo gardening and sewing! Would it have been snails/slugs, or something else munching them?

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any snails or slugs in my garden, so probably something else. Either an insect or maybe lizards? Whatever it was, it didn't touch the squash seedlings right next to the cucumber seedlings, so perhaps it was a very specific taste that attracted it/them.

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

Odd. I hope it doesn't plague you anymore, whatever it is. :( If it were snugs/snails I'd have a suggestion (the one pesticide I use, which is a lot better than most in terms of effectiveness and lack of harm to everything else). Anything else and I have no clue. Heh