I don't do sick well. After a day convinced that I clearly MUST have Swine flu, I resigned myself to the fact that I just had a nasty version of your garden variety cold. "Just rest", my partner implored me, but me being me, I was convinced I could work my way through sickness. I was wrong...again. So I made myself sicker and wound up having to spend a fair chunk of ther past few days in bed. I have to say that despite feeling cruddy, I did enjoy my enforced break wich gave me a chance to get stuck into the new Christos Tsiolakas novel, "The Slap" which is super engrossing. The utter realness of the characters and the amazing naturalness of the dialogue reminds me of Elliot Perlmans' writing, which I also love. I always feel torn when I am in the midst of the reading something I am really enjoying - I want to gobble it up and race to end to see what happens, but at the same time I want to draw it out and make it last because I feel so sure that I will never enjoy another book as much ever again! (I do tend towards extremes!) As I was feeling a little better in Sunday arvo, I set about finishing off some jack tunics which needed some finishing touches. It was at this time that my sewing mchine decided to start playing up again. After quite a few hours of adjusting thread tensions, removing and replacing the bobin case, unpicking great chunks of tangled thread and cursing at the machine I banished my 2006 Brother to the hallway and pulled out my old Werthheim machine (which I'm pretty sure must be at least a decade older than me). It is very slow, has no threader, thread cutter or measurement plate but is reassuringly heavy (due to having all metal parts), makes no infuriating electronic error beeping noises, and most importantly, it just goes and does without drama. I am happily embracing the cliche when I say that "they don't make things like they used to". Anyway, I did manage to finish the tunics off today. Here's some pics .
Ooh, I recognise that last tunic... because now it's MINE! I love it, slightly obsessively I must admit.
Speaking of which, I wrote a wee bit about you on my latest blog post, and I should let you know I cut and pasted some of your 'about me' text to tell people about you in your own words. I hope that's ok. I'd love to do a post with some of your images of your creations in the future if you would be ok with that.
Hope the market was good for you.
Posted by: Gina | June 15, 2009 at 06:40 AM
No problem, Gina. Happy to connect and share work.
Actually, I spied you riding your bike on Sun morning as I was driving across town (looking very stylish;))Good luck with your 6 month pledge.
Posted by: Mel | June 15, 2009 at 09:39 AM
really, really clever!
i love how it takes my head a little while to figure out the shapes and how it works - like i said, clever. :)
Posted by: Kirsten | June 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM