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11th day of lurgy and it's eaten my design brain for the moment. I covered the cutting table with fabric but I can't quite get a plan together. I can manage the beginning of an idea but I'm not up for assembling and weighing all the options. So I'm mending and altering things instead.
Yesterday I shortened two new pairs of jeans (bought at less than half price of course) and applied my fit fix to three pairs. It's not a quick fix, took me all morning to do these but it turns jeans that sort of fit into ones that fit really quite well. On me anyway.
Today I'm being even braver. This is a linen jumper I bought heavily reduced a couple of years ago. It's lovely but I haven't been wearing it because the sleeves were way too long, and because the fabric is so slithery, they wouldn't stay either rolled or pushed up. So I've hacked off the ends, opened the seam, unravelled a bit and I'm reknitting a new cuff. A longer rib to match the original would look better but I was afraid of irretreivably tangling the unravelled ends, hence the short cuff. I've still got one cuff to knit and the seams to sew up, then I will finally have a wearable thing.
Yesterday I shortened two new pairs of jeans (bought at less than half price of course) and applied my fit fix to three pairs. It's not a quick fix, took me all morning to do these but it turns jeans that sort of fit into ones that fit really quite well. On me anyway.
Today I'm being even braver. This is a linen jumper I bought heavily reduced a couple of years ago. It's lovely but I haven't been wearing it because the sleeves were way too long, and because the fabric is so slithery, they wouldn't stay either rolled or pushed up. So I've hacked off the ends, opened the seam, unravelled a bit and I'm reknitting a new cuff. A longer rib to match the original would look better but I was afraid of irretreivably tangling the unravelled ends, hence the short cuff. I've still got one cuff to knit and the seams to sew up, then I will finally have a wearable thing.
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