In this Work In Progress Wednesday report I have to mention the approaching typhoon and how it is slowing me down.
The good thing about a typhoon, compared to an earthquake, is that you know it is coming, approximately when and how severe it will be.
Typhoon #6 (we give numbers, not names, to typhoons in Japan) is now on the threshold of Tokyo and will pass tonight and tomorrow. The air is thick with moisture, and the rain is beginning to pelt down, while the wind is picking up strength to tear things apart.
To prepare for the approaching storm, yesterday I was set to clean out gutters and drains around the house. Unfortunately, I had a lot of other things to do, so the deguttering had to be done in haste.
So sad to say, I injured my right thumb. It is not a serious injury, but bad enough to slow down anything I do with my right hand. One of those things is, of course, to stitch.
So my WIPW progress is not as impressive as I would have wished.
Hexablooms
I have assembled 8 blocks and have three more to do before row 16 is complete. They should have been finished, and the row itself, well on its way to being attached to the flimsy.
Thumbs down to an injured thumb!
SDGs Mending
The elastic in two pairs of training pants had dried up and gone slack. The stretchy fabric is still OK, so it was an obvious choice to change the elastic.
However, the work-out wear had been constructed in the same way as my winter fleece trousers (that I changed the elastic in in November last year).
Meters and meters and meters of thread must have been used to overlock and assemble the waistband. In the picture is just a small amount of the unpicked thread.
The good thing is that, now that my gym wear is up to par, I can't skive off the daily workout routine!
And I do not need my thumb for stretching or physical workouts.
