2006-01-13

2006-01-13 08:17 am

The dork side

Got to work about 15 minutes ago; just rummaged through my purse to grab my phone so I could find a phone number and ...

I left my phone sitting on the coffee table at the house.

So if you need to get in touch with me this weekend, I'll be in Tucson.
2006-01-13 10:56 am

Dork Side, redux

You know you might be loopy from lack of sleep when you have a Steve Miller Band song stuck in your head ...

... and you re-write it from "Big Ol' Jet Airliner" to "Big Old Jed had a Lighthouse".


And also: the word of the day is mondegreen.
2006-01-13 03:00 pm

The Grumpification of Bertana (i.e. "Help!")

So, I'm working on this tunic (and suddenly, I am annoyed at myself for starting a sentence with "so". There is no winning).

I've stuck on the first set of appliques (black applique on white fabric), and I want to couch around the edges, and I thought it would look both Spiffy and Keen to do so with silver metallic thread.

Now, I have seen the thread/cord/whatever you want to call it before. To describe, it is basically several strands of thread that are wrapped in metallic. It ends up being a little thicker than embroidery floss. I know this stuff is available, but I cannot find it! Granted, I have only looked at three different JoAnn's (one of which is a "superstore") and at two different Michael's, but ... how hard is it to find this stuff?

I've used the gold version before, and we found that at SAS. I don't remember if they had silver, and I haven't been able to get to SAS during their hours.

Any suggestions? I was so sad that I couldn't find it, because that tunic is the main project I brought with me to work on this weekend, and the couching was going to give me a break from the non-stop split-stitch of the embroidered trim (don't ask for logic on how that is a 'break', it just is).