- Sketching daisy-ish flowers for a stenciled T-shirt project.
- Cooking English Muffins (they are made on the stove top, not the oven, so I can’t call it “baking”).
- Deciding if I can commit to enough square feet of trim work to justify opening a new tube of caulk. In theory you can put the cap on, but in reality, that never really works.
Visible Mending – Suzer Style
I have a fairly exacting day job, where if something is off by more than 1/16 of inch, there is going to be trouble. No one dies (I’m not a heart surgeon), but there is wasted material, work to be redone and general unhappiness.
This shows up in my crafting in a reversal of priorities – I prefer to work on projects that, to paraphrase Bob Ross contain “no mistakes, just happy accidents.”
So no surprise the visible mending trend makes my heart happy. Some of it is quite formal, such as the Sashiko and Boro techniques. But some of it is more of an ordered chaos, and that’s what I really enjoy.
Conveniently, I have a need for this style of repair. And as usual, it isn’t what you’d normally think of.
Oh, sure, I’ve dabbled with decorative stitches and iron on patches and combinations of both to repair clothes, especially Mr. SuzerSpace’s jeans. He seems to get a hole in the same spot of the upper thigh of every pair he owns (I think it’s from his laptop) and since he works from home, he at least pretends to enjoy the monsters, space aliens and “whoops it was supposed to be a robot but it looks more like the StayPuff Marshmallow Man, sorry” creations I’ve made.
But my new hobby appears to be patching the couch cushions.
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Procraftinating.
You know, where you are supposed to be doing something adult like, with a deadline and consequences, but instead you decide now would be a great time to change your WordPress theme and clean up the categories, sketch out t-shirt designs and update your bullet journal.
Now – April 10, 2023
Currently cutting small squares to patch a denim slipcover.
Wondering why Pantone and Adobe can’t get it together to include the color swatches in the new Creative Cloud updates. Oh yeah, it’s probably money.
Sketching out an idea to make a T-shirt stenciled in asterisks.
Meatless Sausage (not as weird as it sounds)
Welcome to Recommendations From a Picky Eater, which may (or may not) be a recurring subject where I offer my suggestions based on a lifetime of being a picky eater.
During the height of the pandemic, we switched first to grocery pickup, and then to grocery delivery. At the time, I thought it would be temporary, in that I believed I enjoyed grocery shopping.
Turns out I can completely live without the experience. It takes a little planning so that we don’t run out of things, but overall, we are eating better, saving money (fewer impulse buys) and definitely saving time.
There are only two items that I strangely cannot seem to get – my preferred brand of cottage cheese is only available in the Kansas City area at the one store that doesn’t deliver or do pickup, and my very favorite brand of meatless sausage seems to have disappeared off the earth.
I’m a vegetarian; Mr. SuzerSpace is not. We had found Tofurky Italian Meatless Sausage to be an acceptable compromise for both of us. Sometimes it is still listed in the app for the grocery delivery, but it always gets substituted, and I’m not a big fan of the alternate brand, in that I don’t think it tastes as good, is more difficult to cook and is way more expensive.
I decided to try and make my own meatless sausage, and as always, the Internet did not disappoint when searching for recipes.
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