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Home Ec, Tuesday, Period 1

Feb 28, 2017 00:41

"Right, welcome back," Eliot said at the top of the class. He was very pleased to have discovered this morning that whatever had stolen his shirts hadn't counted jackets, so he wasn't topless in front of the students. "So you'll maybe be glad to hear that we're movin' into the modern world proper with this class today." He poked a 1950s Singer with ( Read more... )

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Sign in vdistinctive February 28 2017, 05:41:41 UTC

Stuffed full of fluff

Re: Sign in angry_pie_slice February 28 2017, 11:36:10 UTC

Peridot

Re: Sign in boneyard_girl February 28 2017, 15:26:00 UTC

Ada Miller

Re: Sign in vrajna_kralis February 28 2017, 23:05:39 UTC

Hyacinthe

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Listen to the lecture vdistinctive February 28 2017, 05:43:06 UTC

Attempt to adapt Eliot's tutorial to whatever moddable machine you ended up with.

At least the general western "sewing machine" paradigm had remained pretty constant in the last century. . . .

Re: Listen to the lecture angry_pie_slice February 28 2017, 11:37:26 UTC

Were people wearing less than usual today? Peridot hardly noticed. After all, she didn't wear shirts at all, so it wasn't like she'd had any difficulty preparing for class today. She was at least vaguely interested in today's class, though. Not because of the sewing, but entirely because of the machines being used to do so. Ooo.

Re: Listen to the lecture boneyard_girl February 28 2017, 16:11:04 UTC

Ada...did not have a shirt. Yes, she had a half-dozen dresses she could have pulled on instead, but with the beads coming down she'd realized what was going on, and started laughing.

One of her classes had time-traveled to Carnival before break. She recognized those beads.

So in honor of the holiday she was wearing a mini-skirt and corset (which the island had decided didn't count as a shirt, apparently), and as many beads as she'd been able to catch before retreating and bringing along her umbrella to protect from the downpour of plastic.

For her part, she was going to listen to Mr. Eliot with half an ear, and go over the instructions for the teddy bear. She had some little cousins that would love a toy that hadn't been owned by a few dozen people first.

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis February 28 2017, 23:08:37 UTC

Hyacinthe had no shirt. Hyacinthe needed no shirt.

Hyacinthe was, however, really excited to get into something that made sewing less a pain than doing it by hand. And he would have loved to get his hands on a hand-cranked one. That, he could bring home to Terre D'Ange!

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Make something stuffed vdistinctive February 28 2017, 05:44:29 UTC

Like a pillow or a teddy bear or an amorphous blob. Get into a fiberfill fight, maybe. So long as you walk out of the classroom with something sewn that's stuffed with fluff, Eliot'll call it a win.

Re: Make something stuffed angry_pie_slice February 28 2017, 11:39:00 UTC

Peridot zeroed in on the little plastic one, mostly because it seemed, well, her size. It wasn't the most cooperative machine in the world, but she was bound and determined to make it do as she wanted.

If that meant that she was dissecting a sewing machine mid-class to see why it kept eating the thread, well, so be it.

Re: Make something stuffed boneyard_girl February 28 2017, 16:17:19 UTC

Ada looked at the teddy bear instructions, then at the ones for the pillow. And then decided to mash-together the parts she liked best, and came up with something easily snuggled and good for naps.

Practically won out over aesthetics in this case, especially because she might be able to crank out two or three of them by the end of class, and that was three little Millers who'd have toys they didn't have before.

Re: Make something stuffed vrajna_kralis February 28 2017, 23:10:30 UTC

After the lecture, Hyacinthe leaned over to ask Ada, "Why are their necklaces falling from the sky?"

Obviously he had grabbed some. They were shiny, even if they were worthless. And he was kiiiiinda a magpie about things.

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Talk to Eliot vdistinctive February 28 2017, 05:45:13 UTC

He was poking around in the guts of that '50s Singer with a screwdriver and a bottle of machine oil.

vdistinctive February 28 2017, 05:47:42 UTC

I own all the sewing machines pictured in this post. I am very sorry to any character who ends up trying to use the little plastic one.

Also, I totally used a teddy bear pattern from that same company once to make my best friend a misandry bear for her birthday. Only it didn't come with English and German. I AM A MASTER OF ALL SEWING I SURVEY (and yet am still too intimidated to try making clothing. . . .)