Square two postponed
... for the time being. (Ex-)colleague Kate promised to drop by and take a look at the state of things, especially those that might block my access to the dratted customer's gateway. It might not be entirely my fault, as the physiotherapist lady apparently has the same problems, and she's way more technically savvy than I am. We'll see.
The crafting is going well enough. I've finished the T-shirt and started putting together the trousers, which required another round of cross-grain seaming, which is tedious and boring, so I'm glad it's done. I'll try to solve the neck problem tomorrow, by adding another piece of felt, so that the neck will be longer and the oversized head look less disproportional. Once that's done, I can attack the feet/boots, which promises to be another complicated task. If I ever make another rag doll (after these two) I'll make a better pattern first.
I did also some cooking today: made an absolutely delicious tomato soup and spanakopita for dummies, meaning that I used ricotta instead of Feta cheese. Not on principle, just because I had a jar of ricotta in the freezer, which I had bought at Aldi for a reduced price, and Feta is insanely expensive, considering that it mostly tastes of salt. So I generously (too generously, alas) salted the otherwise bland ricotta, refined the spinach with some cooking cream, added pine nuts to the filling and rolled the whole thing into ready-made puff pastry. With lots of sesame seed on top, it turned out excellent.
This makes no cooking tomorrow, perhaps not even the day after, so I can continue my decluttering campaign. Considering the number of shelves and drawers that need to be sorted out, I have to work on that rather diligently.
The crafting is going well enough. I've finished the T-shirt and started putting together the trousers, which required another round of cross-grain seaming, which is tedious and boring, so I'm glad it's done. I'll try to solve the neck problem tomorrow, by adding another piece of felt, so that the neck will be longer and the oversized head look less disproportional. Once that's done, I can attack the feet/boots, which promises to be another complicated task. If I ever make another rag doll (after these two) I'll make a better pattern first.
I did also some cooking today: made an absolutely delicious tomato soup and spanakopita for dummies, meaning that I used ricotta instead of Feta cheese. Not on principle, just because I had a jar of ricotta in the freezer, which I had bought at Aldi for a reduced price, and Feta is insanely expensive, considering that it mostly tastes of salt. So I generously (too generously, alas) salted the otherwise bland ricotta, refined the spinach with some cooking cream, added pine nuts to the filling and rolled the whole thing into ready-made puff pastry. With lots of sesame seed on top, it turned out excellent.
This makes no cooking tomorrow, perhaps not even the day after, so I can continue my decluttering campaign. Considering the number of shelves and drawers that need to be sorted out, I have to work on that rather diligently.