5 Random Things Make a Post
Jan. 13th, 2008 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrj1. A beautiful warm sunny day calls for doing yard work. (Yes, I know it's still mid-January.) I weeded the strip along the driveway where the daffodils and crocuses are starting to come up, then continued with random pruning until the green-trash can was full.
2. Wah! My favorite bra shop no longer exists. I even looked it up on-line before driving down to San Leandro and all signs indicated that it was still there in the same location, but that storefront now has a dress shop. They were the only place I could trust to not only get the fit right but to have non-underwire bras in my size.
3. The carrot clumps do work nicely on cucumber slices. (And the carrot paste does freeze well.) This is useful information.
4. I have begun on my resolution to shift back into "creative" mode by sewing a pair of silk pyjamas last night. The local discount fabric shop has these weird bolt-ends of silk and silk-like fabrics that appear to be refugees from a tie factory at ridiculously low prices. Not exactly patterns that I'd use for costuming, but the plum with little navy blue paisleys makes nice pyjamas.
5. I have entered women's clothes sizing hell. Sewing pattern companies appear to follow the old standardized sizes, which make me a 20. The catalog companies I've been using lately (Lands End, L.L. Bean) have me hovering between 16 and 18. But the women's section of the Orchard Supply work clothes deparment (my dirty little secret for cheap no-nonsense black pants) claim that I'm a 14 and appear to be right as far as their wares go. Life is easier when I draft my own patterns and sew my own pants, but I'm too lazy for that at the moment.
2. Wah! My favorite bra shop no longer exists. I even looked it up on-line before driving down to San Leandro and all signs indicated that it was still there in the same location, but that storefront now has a dress shop. They were the only place I could trust to not only get the fit right but to have non-underwire bras in my size.
3. The carrot clumps do work nicely on cucumber slices. (And the carrot paste does freeze well.) This is useful information.
4. I have begun on my resolution to shift back into "creative" mode by sewing a pair of silk pyjamas last night. The local discount fabric shop has these weird bolt-ends of silk and silk-like fabrics that appear to be refugees from a tie factory at ridiculously low prices. Not exactly patterns that I'd use for costuming, but the plum with little navy blue paisleys makes nice pyjamas.
5. I have entered women's clothes sizing hell. Sewing pattern companies appear to follow the old standardized sizes, which make me a 20. The catalog companies I've been using lately (Lands End, L.L. Bean) have me hovering between 16 and 18. But the women's section of the Orchard Supply work clothes deparment (my dirty little secret for cheap no-nonsense black pants) claim that I'm a 14 and appear to be right as far as their wares go. Life is easier when I draft my own patterns and sew my own pants, but I'm too lazy for that at the moment.
