My girly Mac and other things that have happened
So the couch we bought at a thrift store came with four, red, suede-ish, rectangular accent pillows (that’s five adjectives!). I spend most of my time on the computer on the couch, spread out, with a couple of big floor pillows behind me to prop me up, a couple of the red pillows under my knees, and the computer on one of the red pillows, to both prop it up and keep my legs from getting so hot from the laptop.
This morning, Joshua brought my computer to me while i was still in bed and said, “Look at this.” He flipped it over as I reached for my glasses, only to put them on and discover that the bottom of my computer is now tinted PINK. When I get my camera back from a blogless friend (hint, hint) who’s borrowing it, I’ll post a picture.
in other news, Judah’s nails are now glow-in-the-dark and mine are light blue. I’m not much of a nail painter, but I’m thinking about putting a dark blue racing stripe down each one, to encourage this kid to hurry his way out of the womb.
I didn’t sleep well last night. I kept waking up not able to to breathe, because my son had nestled himself in my ribcage. That’s such an… amazing feeling. And Judah had some bowel problems, which woke her up once and woke us up once. My poor girl. She was hurting so much and of course wanted Mommy. I hate it when my child is looking at me asking me to do something about the pain she’s experiencing and there’s nothing I can do but hold her. And it’s hard to reason with a three-year-old that if she can just get it out, it will feel better.
My friend Lisa came over yesterday morning and we made some cloth diapers for our little guy. Learning how to sew is a goal i’ve had for a while and Joshua’s mom and I made a couple sets of curtains. I thought diapers would be an easy starter project as well - it’s hard to screw up rectangular pieces of flat fabric. Lisa provided us with some fun flannel fabric - we have counting sheep, space-age Oreos, and bucking broncos. And we got a pretty good system. She’s very good at sewing, and really did most of the work while I watched and learned and managed to sew some relatively straight lines. I’m always surprised at how the majority of sewing is measuring and cutting and ironing and piecing things together. The actual sewing is only part of it. And Lisa has a serger, which does all that finishing around the edges of things - it makes it look nice and keeps it together much better than a regular sewing machine. We’ll see what happens with them after we throw them in the wash. And I’m excited to see how they hold up. I don’t think they’ll be as good as my ordered diapers - those are pretty amazing, but who knows? We think they’ll work great and they’ve got to work better than Gerber diapers. Man, those things suck. Maybe Lisa and I could get good at this.
Again, I will post some pictures soon.
August 4th, 2006 at 10:28 am
my mom has a surger and it is cool, and every once in awhile I get these great dishtowels from her in the mail, that are just white flour sack towels, surged around the outside with a simple clean thread. They are the best kitchen towels and I love them.
So when we were home last chirstmas I asked her if she would make me 15 or 20 of them (you can never have too many kitchen towels, and they’re so cheap) and some for stacy while she was at it and a few for my grandma who was also there. My mom laughed at me and said she would show amy and I how to make them ourselves if wanted them. Great, how hard could it be to sew around the edge of a few towels.
OH MY GOD, there was so much measuring, and cutting and folding and ironing, and folding again and ironging, and re-ironing because I’m not good with straight lines, and the crease was all wrong. it never stopped and pretty soon I was sweating like crazy and my arm was sore. IT took us like 18 hours to make 25 towels. Who knew sewing rectangles was so much work?
That was a long comment to simply say: I feel you. And I respect sewers. If that is an actual word.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
i think it’s seamsters/seamstresses. english majors or children of english teachers? help, please?
but that’s big and fancy. i’ll take sewers.
and what blows my mind is we cut all the fabric to exactly the same dimensions - then why don’t they always line up? that’s just not right.
if it had just been me trying to make these diapers, and without a serger? one word: “disaster.”