Morning, y’all. You made it to the weekend. That’s a good thing.

We had an ok Friday. Shawshank had a full day of work. I attempted to make some pantaloons, and failed dismally. I switched to genie pants, and started to make a pair with a green and white floral sheet. Unfortunately, that ended in frustration when I cut something slightly wrong. After several measurements to verify I’d get two appropriately-sized panels with a long strip left over, I made the first cut. This gets me the long strip and a fat rectangle. I made the second, more important cut incorrectly, so the two panels weren’t quite the size they needed to be. I mean, they’re ok. They’ll work, but they could be better.

The biggest problem is their length is just a hair on the short side, which means I need to add a waistband and ankle cuffs. I have a nice green fabric I can use for a nice contrasting look. However, I don’t want to cut that piece of fabric until I’m ready to make the green pants. And I don’t want to make the green pants until after I make the really loud floral pants, because I want to use some of the scrap from those for the green pants.

This is all so confusing, simply because I need to have some tiny appearance of organization in all the chaos that is me. Eventually, I cleared the fabric off the living room floor, and replaced it with an enormous sheet of cardboard. I traced out the general pants pattern onto that, and added some measurement notes. Shawshank cut it out for me, because I can’t trust myself not to slice off my finger.

I ended up streaming on TikTok for a couple of hours. You know how to get a lot of viewers? Wear something short. Want to double that number in 2 minutes? Bring Pippin out. She’s such a cuddly kitty, and she loves to sit in my lap and soak up the attention.

Today is the town yard sale. Shawshank took out some cash for us. I’m going to assume a human form and we’ll see what we can find.