Current Mood : Still sleepy. Arrrgh.
Well, my plan to wake up and feel more of a push to donate more fabric failed. For some reason, I'm more clingy to it than I was before. I had to move the ‘donate' bag for fear I'd go through it and keep it all. And I still haven't figured out where it's all gonna go ! Since most of it is for me-clothes I can probably squeeeeeze it into my closet, but the rest...(sigh)
I had to move it today, though. It was taking up Brody's perch on my desk. Beloved Hubby's been working with Stitch Era Universal to make an AirSoft patch for his group. After a lack of success with the Auto-Digitizer functions, he went Manual - and it looks great ! It even looked good in Ambassador, so I wanted to install and test-stitch it out. For that, I need Brody's space cleared off. Dropped the whole stack into the soon-to-be-covered crate and nudged it aside.
Hooped up a leftover bit of black fabric with a lot of leftover cutaway stabilizer, and looped through some scrap thread. Yes, believe it or not, I have four spools (three colors !) of some flat, unremarkable thread that looks like it was pulled off an industrial machine, garnered from one thrift store / yard sale / junk shop or another. It's good enough to use, but not good enough for most projects. I save it for test stitch-outs like this one. And it stitched up beautifully ! One of the fonts needs to go a bit bolder - it was hard to read, but mostly legible - but other than that, it's perfect ! It's on a scrap of fabric big enough to do something with, just in case.
I even got Beloved to come in and watch it stitch out when he came home. He really enjoyed that, and seeing how well his idea and design worked. Since it did so well, now I wanna learn manual digitizing. He says it's not that hard, and I want to be able to do what he did ! Only problem is, for it to work, I have to get over something that I've carried for decades.
I can't draw. Seriously. Ask me to sketch a person, and I'll invariably draw something that makes those stick-figure sticker families on the backs of vans and SUVs look like Rembrandts. That may be why I love animation so much - there's no possible way I can do it m'self. Beloved says I can trace instead, so I have some hope. I'd plan to noodle around with it tomorrow, but you can imagine how badly neglected the house is, and it's grocery shopping / prescription pick-up day.
Until then, here's a photo of DC's first experience with real catnip. He really loved it, but hasn't found the potted plant yet on his own. To my amazement, yes, it's still alive !
