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Jan. 3rd, 2016 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotToday I took out a red/brown/black wool check and measured it - 2 yds of 60" fabric - and decided I think I can make another full-skirted Simplicity 3673 with it. The only tricky thing is that I know from the ones I have made of it that it really needs an FBA, and I've already cut out the smallest size (14), and it's OOP* so I'm not going to get a smaller one. I've been working with newspaper and I'm optimistic that I'm going to be able to make it come out better than previously, and then I'll have a third new winter dress. But I'm annoyed that it's a jumper and I don't have enough fabric to put sleeves on, because I don't have many shirts that will work under it. It will be better than nothing, though. Yesterday I wore my heavier wool dress with my good knitted tights to walk all over town doing my shopping, and I was perfectly warm, more so than I would have been in jeans.
* I don't know why they let it get OOP. It's a great dress and they're adding more and more to the retro lines in all the Big Three ... It's only from 2007.
I also need to lose some weight. When it got cold and, more importantly, dark, I stopped walking as much - and then there's been SO much leftover dessert at the museums - and I've gained back every single bit I lost over the summer and fall. It's very frustrating, I walk to and from work every day, I do all my grocery shopping on foot, I don't drink soda or eat too badly. But I do like sweets.
I think it's because I'm a supertaster. (Which I was really reminded of over Christmas, because I get so used to only making the food I can eat, but when I went to Mom's and Dad's suddenly dinner was an issue. The sweet potatoes have bourbon in them, the greens are so bitter, sure I'll try a piece of your sashimi WHOA I can't deal with that texture.) They just taste so good to me, I can't deal with it - like grapefruit and coffee are unbearably bad, so the good things are mirrored going the other way. That's my excuse, anyway. So once the last of my Christmas treats are gone, I'm going to be stern with myself.
* I don't know why they let it get OOP. It's a great dress and they're adding more and more to the retro lines in all the Big Three ... It's only from 2007.
I also need to lose some weight. When it got cold and, more importantly, dark, I stopped walking as much - and then there's been SO much leftover dessert at the museums - and I've gained back every single bit I lost over the summer and fall. It's very frustrating, I walk to and from work every day, I do all my grocery shopping on foot, I don't drink soda or eat too badly. But I do like sweets.
I think it's because I'm a supertaster. (Which I was really reminded of over Christmas, because I get so used to only making the food I can eat, but when I went to Mom's and Dad's suddenly dinner was an issue. The sweet potatoes have bourbon in them, the greens are so bitter, sure I'll try a piece of your sashimi WHOA I can't deal with that texture.) They just taste so good to me, I can't deal with it - like grapefruit and coffee are unbearably bad, so the good things are mirrored going the other way. That's my excuse, anyway. So once the last of my Christmas treats are gone, I'm going to be stern with myself.
