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Yesterday I pressed and pad-stitched in the interlining for all the plackets. I sewed and felled the back yoke seam on the black shirt, but the top thread was acting up again, this time actually getting jammed in the bobbin case somehow. After getting it unstuck I took a break to unscrew the foot plate, take out the bobbin case and inspect it (it’s perfectly fine, no damage to speak of), vacuum out the lint, and put everything back together. I still had a handful of hiccups on the final seam, but with less of a nest on the underside. My next suspect is that I’ve got the wrong top thread for this needle, which would be annoying.

Over breakfast I attempted to deep-clean two of the cupboard doors, but they are still tacky so I’ve gotta try something else.

We went to open studio and I burnished the insides of all the bakers. Some of them were a little dry for it, but I got it to work eventually.

Home, food, then canning research. Nobody seems to mix elderberries and blackcurrants, so I might just do two separate preserves. I want to do up some plums too for savory applications.

I finished Goose Girl (nice twist) and started the sequel, Enna Burning. Less sing-song, probably because it’s not, or not obviously, based directly on a classic fairy tale. More complexity in the characters and morality, too.

Dinner, crossword, Legends, snack, sleep. P had made kofta, which seemed like it would be fine but I had a weird reaction to the raw beef smell in the sink, so dealing with that. It is good to challenge my environment periodically but certainly not pleasant.

Yesterday I did the ironing. We went to open studio and I made three larger (2#) bowls/bakers and trimmed three of the bakers from last week. I brought an old protein canister to use as a water & reclaim bucket and it worked great. Home, lunch, crossword, then I was possessed by a small cleaning spirit and vacuumed the sewing room, hall, and bits of the bedroom and nest. I traced off another shirt on the black challis, this time with a double thickness in the yoke. There’s a yard of challis left; I can probably get another shirt out of it if I use a contrasting yoke. I do still have all that dupioni I got for yokes a couple years ago.

Nearly finished with Talking to Dragons.

Dinner, Legends, snack, sleep.

G update: search as they might, they could find no mass anywhere. I would think it was a smudge on the earlier image if it hadn’t shown up on multiple scans from multiple hospitals. Whatever it was, it’s not there any more. He’s homefree, though the next few times he has GI symptoms like that they want to see him for a scan to be sure.

Yesterday I learned how to do a hand-rolled hem, and it is so much easier than using the rolled hem foot I may never go back. I did about half of it so it doesn’t even take that long.

P used the new purple lead tests on the paint on the front of the house (the paint is red, so the usual red ones from the hardware store are suboptimal) aaaand they came up positive. We’re going to have the masonry guys hold off on the front until we can get an abatement team in. I mean I’ve always wanted to get the paint off the bricks but this is not the way I wanted to do it. Probably another $3k.

October Man continues well; the reader started out a bit stuffy but is relaxing into it.

Lunch, work was good— I’m back into debugging use case tests; met with F and M and dug up some more likely datasets for them from the proppr archives; flexed my data processing muscles on cleaning them up. Dinner, crossword, then we went to the PCA to help load the soda kiln. It made for a late night but it was a very pleasant gentle social experience. I dropped someone else’s pot 😔 which sucked, but it helped that T wasn’t having the most on top of it day either. Mistakes aren’t fun but that doesn’t mean they’re not normal. You figure stuff out. P made a possible client connection for the spring web design course with a guy who works in a slipcasting studio. He had really fabulous stuff to put in the kiln — ducks cast from hunting lures, horseshoe crabs, turtle shells. He plans to help with unloading on Monday but I kinda hope some of his stuff winds up at Braddock so we can all see how it turns out.

Home, snack, sleep.