I’ve certainly had my fill of them with the hitoe and the project in general. Currently I’m still a bit upset with myself for managing to not publish yesterday’s post. I thought I did, but, apparently not. I didn’t publish poems either. I must have been really tired.
Mistakes are only worth it if you learn something, so I’m reaching for lessons today. Like, I have an easier time getting everything published at night if I start the post earlier in the day so it’s just editing and publishing instead of writing out the whole thing on top of that. Ooh, that sounds like breaking things down into smaller tasks, also a valuable lesson.
Silver linings are Lovely but there are still clouds Darkening the day
Hard learned lessons have the sting Of consequences in them.
I set a goal of finishing the hitoe for today (collar tuck and sleeves), but I’m finding myself drawn back to my documentation. I hope to accomplish something with both as I have learned not to turn down inspiration when it comes. And I had an idea that may clean up the flow of the documentation, so that’s what I’m chasing in my edits today.
The documentation edits were mostly technical, cleaning up footnotes and working on their formatting and rereading how to format the bibliography, how to cite a webpage, that kind of thing. The flow was pretty much already there as I had wanted it, so I did a streamlining edit. I like the way it’s shaping up.
I did manage to get the tuck put in and top stitched. It was trickier than I expected to get the folds in just the right places so that it matched up with the diagrams. I actually thread marked the tuck so I could press it in. I haven’t thread marked anything, ever. Of course I knew how to, it’s just stitching through the fabric so it’s not hard, but it made the task infinitely easier and I didn’t end up with chalk lines on the right side of the fabric. Bonus that I was able to pull the thread marking and then reuse the thread for the tuck stay stitching.
