Meanwhile, in sewing land: Unpicking the hem from a curtain so I can shorten it up a little bit. And then I'll have to re-measure it and re-hem it, and sewing curtains is possibly the most tedious sewing task you could possibly do. It's unwieldy, it's boring and it's somewhat precise. Terrible! Terrible!
Anyway, I've been putting this off for months if not a year or more, and I gotta.
Adriano
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Lauma Pret 🕸️
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Unless your linen curtains shrinks through the years (has happened to me).
Sini Tuulia
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •The more tedious a thing is, the more my nervous system wants me to be aware of things that don't usually matter.
"YOU ARE NOW AWARE OF THE SENSATION OF YOUR RIGHT SOCK SITTING HIGHER THAN YOUR LEFT. Also your hair lies flat a different direction than it should, and this itches."
Mx. Eddie R
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@silvermoon82 Well, my brain was giving me helpful intrusive thoughts like "if you stab yourself in the thigh you can't keep sewing curtains, problem solved!" and I was like "seems a bit drastic but ask me again in ten minutes"
Just trying to make me do ANYTHING but the tedious thing
Maria Carole
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •In any case, 50% of task done. One curtain is up, since I have to wash the other one that was already up, it's covered in city particles and cat hair.
I'm not entirely sure why I hung only one up the last time, but could guess that I went through this and went "fuck it, one curtain is enough" and left the other one to await until I could be bothered. Thanks, Sini of the Past.
Sarah E Bourne
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I swear an entire walking skirt would feel like less work than this fucking ordeal...
Lauma Pret 🕸️
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in reply to kamikat • • •@kamikat Thank you. I've managed one, the other is still washing and will be the trials of tomorrow at the earliest...
Disproportionately an ordeal
Chris 🏳️🌈🧵🧝🏼
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia @Chris 🏳️🌈🧵🧝🏼 I would like to have some nice new curtains for the new house
almost all of the windows are door-sized, giving access to balconies etc.
my mother's old curtains from ikea are perfectly fine, and they aren't that bad, even if they are not all the same length and the fabric is off-the-grain :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla This pair of curtains is originally from Ikea and they're fine, but also 20cm too long... Without re-hemming they're just long enough to gather all of the cat hair and stop the radiators under the windows from properly working. It's fairly demotivating to turn them just that 20cm!
@elfkin
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