Misfits, more skirt design, and ironing boards

 Misfits box arrived 

Bringing lovely fresh lettuce and parsley, salmon for immediate dining pleasure, and a chicken for a few days' time.

Also two freezer blocks which I tossed next door, but no excitement this week, so Gary must not have mislaid anything.

And here's a step by step showing the difference between a design on the table and the same design in action. I really liked this layout, pinned in place. So I tried it on.

And you see how hopelessly unflattering it is in action. All wrong on my hips. Fortunately it was only pinned, so I repinned

And now it's a much better shape and drape. 

This is the way a dress you see in a shop and like and try on,  makes you cry in the dressing room. Online shopping, when it gets home to you, too. But when you're making it yourself, you can change it before sobbing. Just sayin'.

And I have one strip of fabric left to run a narrow decorative band across the back waist.  Literally no remnants. It's like yarn chicken, only fabric chicken. Have you noticed that weavers say cloth, dressmakers say fabric? I do both, weave cloth and sew fabric.

Today is cooler and stormy, lovely in fact, and Handsome Son, who has been on vacation this week, dashing all over, shore, concerts, is making an hour to visit me.  We had arranged that only if the weather isn't good for other activities, he'd come over! His vacation time is precious, he can see his cranky old ma anytime, is how I feel. He's more tactful.

I read a sample of Apricots on the Nile, per Liz's recommendation, couldn't get it anywhere via libraries other than clunky ILL, so I broke down and actually brought a used copy from Abebooks or Thrift books or one of those great places.

I also bust out for a tabletop ironing board, because my flat surface isn't doing it for skirts where you have to insert the ironing surface into the thing in order not to be ironing two sides at once and creating new creases.  

Surprising how many folding boards are designed by people who evidently don't know this. I ordered one, only one I could find,  where the support legs weren't at the four corners, defeating their own purpose. Why do they think ironing boards have that pointed end, I wonder.  Just a fun cute feature? Tell me you're an ironing board designer who's never ironed without telling me, etc.

Happy day, everyone, may all your equipment be designed for purpose!