Current Mood : All snitty at the WSS
Current Image Notes : You can see where the 'lace' doesn't quite meet the edges. Not good. The blue inset is the way it's supposed to look, image stolen from the place I bought the design from.
Wii Fit : 32 minutes
Well, the new water-soluble stabilizer ranks. It just does. Keeping the tension and everything the same since last night's successful UltraSolvy test did not help the Mal-Wart stuff at all. Had to stop about mid-way through, same place as Trial #2, since it was too far off registry to complete. Again. It would have been a waste of thread and time to continue. Raised the tension and tried one more time on another cut of the crap. It looked better, but was still screwed up. Just crapped out further along in the design this time. (sigh) I can always use it as a ‘topping' when I sew towels, but otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, it's pretty useless.
I may snag some no-slip shelf liner next time I go to Dollar Tree, and wrap a narrow strip of it along the sides of the hoop, see if that helps. But if it doesn't, it's scrap. Tired of wasting thread and effort on it.
Finally got Beloved Hubby's coat fixed. It'd developed a tear along the pocket, and the lining was sewn down. So I used a ‘football' stitch - weave back and forth along the inside, trying not to catch the visible side, then once it's done, pull it tight - and it mostly worked. At least it's not a gaping hole anymore.
I've been meaning to fix that jacket since, oh, January or so. It got stashed in his truck, then brought in with the other sweatshirts and such a few weeks ago. Surfaced again when I finally got close to the bottom of the huge pile of dirty laundry. I would have put it off some more, but I know me too well. I stuffed it in a laundry basket and put the basket just inside the Lab door. Every time I went in or out, I had to squeeze past it. It's too easy to put stuff off when it's not in your way ! So I put it in my way, on purpose. And it's done now.
Chinese delivery for dinner ! It feels like a reward...
