of cars and tucks
messed up my car last night in the snow... while this is very stressful, as I cannot drive it at the moment, I've basically been waiting for it to give up the ghost so I can get a new one with no reservations. I avoided expensive fixits because they weren't strictly necessary, and I was unwilling to pour more money into my car. However, both the registration and inspection are due to be renewed, so at the end of this month I would either have to do that or get a new car. This accident is probably the shove I've needed; I have crazy skills when it comes to waffling about doing things! If it were a useful skill you'd wish you had my proficiency at it. I'm dreading car-shopping like WHOA. Totally can't afford a new car, so that means test-driving and mechanic-approving and all the other stuff involved with buying a used car. Words cannot express how much I am dreading it.
Working on handsewing tucks on my HSF project (not going to name it till it's due), but the last tuck (not planned initially, so the project was 90% done before I decided it needed another tuck) got uneven somewhere between marking and sewing, so I'll have to redo it to make it higher. Grr! In one place it seems that a previous tuck was a bit high, however, so if I redo *that* tuck it will solve both problems at once. So I basically have to redo a tuck and a half, rather than two. Yay? I'm positive that if I'd machine sewn these they'd be a lot more even, but I'm determined to not even let my project exchange pleasantries with my machine, let alone become familiar with it. Tomorrow I will redo the tucks and sew on some lace, and then my project will be (should be!) done.
Working on handsewing tucks on my HSF project (not going to name it till it's due), but the last tuck (not planned initially, so the project was 90% done before I decided it needed another tuck) got uneven somewhere between marking and sewing, so I'll have to redo it to make it higher. Grr! In one place it seems that a previous tuck was a bit high, however, so if I redo *that* tuck it will solve both problems at once. So I basically have to redo a tuck and a half, rather than two. Yay? I'm positive that if I'd machine sewn these they'd be a lot more even, but I'm determined to not even let my project exchange pleasantries with my machine, let alone become familiar with it. Tomorrow I will redo the tucks and sew on some lace, and then my project will be (should be!) done.