I’ve seen an orange cat come through the yard of late, and there are signs up for a missing orange cat, Oliver. The cat never tarries though, so it’s been hard to get a picture.
Today though, I was out early delivering the Kenton newsletter, and here was the orange cat sitting on an enclosure for the apartments on the other side of Winchell, and I was able to get a picture.
Alas, it was not Oliver.
Matt and I visited the Rose City Cemetery to take care of the Greeks’s graves.
I didn’t have as many origami flowers this year, but enough for a nice sprig on Basil and Basiliky’s gravestone.
Unfortunately, the wind kicked up in the afternoon, and I suspect that another grave might now have the flowers.
Matt put Uncle Tom’s flowers up. We did not go as early as I did last year, so the building was open.
A good showing here for Timothy B. Anastas.
One exciting development: Mabel Collins still has her flowers from last year!
They are faded, due to being outside, but didn’t blow away!
I think the first time I actually dyed something was a towel in high school. We were supposed to use strips of black towel for mutes in our saxophones, and me being the only girl, I was elected to do the dying of the towel for the rest of the group. Why did we not collectively buy a black towel and cut it up, you ask? Good question. I have no idea.
But! Today is the first time I have dyed items that I would like to turn out well.
I got my instructions from the Rit website, and noticed that Rit probably doesn’t employ a copy editor.
How does one stir “slowly and continuously” AND stir “off and on”? “Continuously” voids the “off,” and “off” voids “continuously,” so which is it?
I didn’t have a big enough pot, so I boiled water and put it in a 5 gallon bucket in the sink.
The results seem well. The gray shirt is now blue, and the white underwear I made is now a lighter shade of blue.
I may have had too many items in at once; the dye on the underwear is not as uniform as the dye on the shirt.
Still! A good result. Next: my linen pants will become brown. (She says confidently)
Here is my first drafted a-line skirt. So cute!
In sewing it together, I realized I have no idea any longer how to attach a waistband to a skirt. So that will be some learning that can happen, along with the pattern drafting.
I invested in the online Shapes of Fabric Skirt Pattern Class, where I am learning to draft ALL the skirt patterns.
Module One was to create a basic skirt pattern block that fits your (or someone else’s) body perfectly. Here is mine:
When I went to buy tag board to trace my final block, I found that Fred Meyer did not have any white tagboard. I brought home the black, and used one of my white pens. I like the effect.
I added my current measurements (in centimeters) to the block. Because my weight tends to shift, this is a way to have an easy reference telling me if the block will still work.
Module two will have me drafting half size skirts in a variety of patterns. And the half-size skirt is based on a standard skirt pattern block, which is much smaller than my skirt block. This will be speedier and save on fabric.
A great showing at the first Movie Quiz at the Cinemagic Theater: 130 points! Ten points more than the 120 I consider the acceptable threshold for our team.
For this new venue, we are going with a new name. This month’s name: Quiz my Bump, a takeoff of a line from Project Hail Mary. Going forward, we will incorporate the word Battleship into other movie titles.
Favorite team names this time:
The Rambo Connection; Lee Cronin’s Michael; Trivia Newton John; the Boerne Colonoscopy; Palm H’or Douveres; The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and Grogu; the Male Gays; Wet for Dreyfuss; I’m Feeling a Little Swoozie Kurtz Here; See You Linklater
