Morning.StarDammit!
I have to go shopping, and Bea's managed to lose her gloves again. This is a regular occurrence, luckily I have a contingency. I lent her mine, and spent an hour making myself a pair for today.
She also manages to wreck zips, so I have a plentiful supply of old tops she's made unwearable, and a replacement costs the same as a zip does. I really cant be bothered to repair them, so this happens instead...
First, I drew round my hands, allowing for the fact the thumb doesnt stick out like a child's drawing. If you look carefully at a good pair of gloves that fit well, the seams are profiled and not flat like the cheap ones. They dont fit very well and bag in the palm, and the fingers are sloppy. You need to allow about half inch clear space around the fingers, depending how large your hands are. Mine are fairly delicate for a man's hands, thats plenty for me.
Then I pinned the templates to an old jumper folded in half to get the material faces correct and both hands exactly the same size.
Cut around the templates and separate them, then join the thumb to the hand. This is done using a zig-zag stitch so that half the stitches are outside the fabric, every opposite one misses the hem, making a stretchy seam and pulling the edges together in a bead.
That's repeated around the entire outline, remembering to leave a hole to put your hand in. ;-) The fabric is inside-out at this point, all the seams will be on the inside when finished.
Pinned and then sewn...
Finally a hand needle tidies up any little holes where the zig-zag missed. Particularly in the crooks of the fingers where its hard to turn the cloth that tightly. This one is actually on the wrong hand, I cant sew very well left-handed... This a darning technique, putting one hand inside a garment and pulling the edges of a hole together with a thread from outside.
Nice and toasty fingers for nothing :-D
BeastFinger Mk II
Last set of gloves I bought her came with a scarf as a set. Luckily, there's just enough fabric in it for three gloves. I made a pair, and pinned the template to the offcut for when she loses one of the other two. This fabric is a kind of wool, it doesnt fray and stretches in both directions. Actually, if pushed I'd say its probably synthetic felt.
Its a lot easier to sew than the material from the jumper, that has a weave in it. Large items of clothing are usually fine, its the design on the fabric you need to worry about. Smaller items need to stretch, so you have to pay more attention to the bias. Cutting the glove pattern with the fingers across the weave will result in gloves that stretch the wrong way, you wont get your fingers into them or be able to close your hand in them.
Wools and felts are knitted, or tangled into sheets rather than woven so they stretch in all directions, ideal for gloves and hats.
Fits like... A glove! :-)
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Sounds like most any other person would have cracked under the strain you go through but YOU have a good head on your shoulders and a strong heart and soul.
It would take an awful lot to drive me away. I am always here to watch and listen my friend :-)
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I'm not so sure Mark, and of all my friends you probably talk to me the most.
There have been warning signs, havent there? I mean, nobody deliberately builds a robot with disabilities so it passes as human to our government. Never mind I built it out of one of their benefits forms.
They used a disabled person to attack me with so I couldnt - cant - defend myself or Bea against her. I have to destroy the woman's reputation to undo the web of lies that every organisation involved with her have tucked away in their files.
This disgusting act alone sets the bar for how I view authority now. Even Theresa May has heard of me by now, still it carries on. Why? Because she and her mates instigated it, thats why. From the managers upwards, the whole lot reeks.
Tax fiddlers, kiddie fiddlers, chauvinists and bigots, incompetents and outright clowns, and the rest look the other way. These are the people society looks up to, and they are absolutely worthless.
This latest episode says it all; a little snow and they warn us to hibernate because they cant cope.
Does Sweden shut for the winter? For the love of a set of snowchains they get around just fine, and how much would it cost to retrofit garbage trucks with ploughs for the winter? They could store them in the salt-sheds that would remain half-empty as a result.
It isnt rocket science. It damn well should be though, living is the single most important thing humans do and doing it badly is just embarrassing to the species IMO. I think this is why I chose to be among hackers - if something isnt right, they fix it. ;-)
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Any hiker would love a set like that :-)
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The way she's going every hiker in Britain will have a pair. She lost hers, lost mine and tomorrow she'll lose those too. I'm lucky if she even comes home with them the same day. I have lost count of the pairs she's already gone through this year alone. Four? Five?
Not sure.
Even a mind like mine cant keep this bullshit up forever dude. Whatever I touch, magic. I love her, but everything she gets her hands on is usually fucked in under 24 hours.
This includes most relationships with other people.
Its driven me to the brink of suicide. Push a man hard enough, he questions himself and the universe. Bargains, begs, pleads. Rages, breaks his work. Cuts off his fingernails so he cant play his beloved guitar. Finally his mind snaps and he does something nobody expects, even him.
Thats whats bothering me lately. I wont hurt her, I wont hurt me. I wont hurt my friends or the innocent bystander. I want to hurt SOMEbody tho, so I stay indoors where I cant hurt anyone, and wear headphones so I dont have to talk to some annoying twat from town.
All it will take is me to lose it, and stuff someones head up their own arse just for asking me to make them a pair even for money. It makes me look unhelpful at best... Everyone with half a brain round here or there has figured this out for themselves though and leaves me the fuck alone, which is why I admire the few friends I do have. Its not entertaining for sure.
It takes testicles to watch, never mind live this nonsense. Thanks for being there dude.
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