Meanwhile, in sewing land: Unpicking the hem from a curtain so I can shorten it up a little bit.

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

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.

#Sewing

[adriano@lile.cl]

@sinituulia fortunately, unlike children, walls and windows rarely grow up much, so you don't have to re-hem and shorten or lengthen the curtains very often.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@adriano @sinituulia unless you change house often :D

[elfkin@woof.group]

@sinituulia Blerf! Sewing curtains is the pits.

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

@elfkin Every time I'm surprised by how it can possibly be more tedious than I remembered

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@sinituulia @elfkin 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

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

@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

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@sinituulia @elfkin indeed! that's even worse than making new shiny ones!