WIPW - How A Typhoon Can Slow Things Down

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.

WIPW - More SDGs Mending

 It is already time for another Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

I now have a pile of 16 completed blocks for row 16. The fabric for the remaining 11 blocks is prepared, cut, and numbered, awaiting basting and assembling.

Gifts

The luncheon mats are finished. I also made a Swedish 'tablecloth roll'. It is a cardboard tube that has been covered in fabric and used to roll up table runners and the like for storing.

SDGs Mending

While sorting out and packing away winter blankets and flannel bed linens, I discovered that my pillow liner (a plain pillow cover used between the pillow and the pretty pillow cover) was torn. 

It's a very old liner, probably from the 1970s, but of high quality and still clean and fresh. Frugal as I am, I thus decided to mend the tear in the same way as I did the tear in my black jacket - by using iron-on tape. I will be able to use the pillow liner for some time yet.

WIPW - What I Hate About Metal Stud Buttons

Work In Progress Wednesday. Here is my report.

Mandala

I have now completed every one of the four lines with yellow beads.

What's next, I wonder?

Hexablooms

I selected 61 more blocks, placed them and marked them with placement numbers.

Part of them will look like this:

Sunday Stitch School Indigo Stitch Sampler

#343 Open Fishbone Stitch in light green and #344 Persian Star Filling Stitch in ochre.

SDGs for Clothing

After spending hours ripping up the factory machine-stitched waistband, I finally managed to set the elastic free from stitches. However, it was still trapped inside the waistband as it had been fixed with a metal stud button.

There I stood with the newly bought elastic... and fumed: 'This is what I hate about metal stud buttons!'

In the end, I had to cut two slits and pull out the old elastic in order to cut it off as close to the button as possible.

I will treat the slits as buttonholes and work Tailor's Buttonhole Stitch around the holes, then insert the new elastic and stitch it down by machine across the waistband. I will set the stitch length to large so the next time I need to replace the elastic, it will be easy to unpick the stitches.