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August 19, 2007
it's too hot
I see now how it's going to be. Hundred degree days stretch out before me like an endless, hot, freshly laid gooey black road in a flat, treeless, relentlessly sunny landscape. I'm beginning to believe that I won't experience a day with temperatures in the double digits again until I set foot back in Canada (and not just because in Canada the thermometer doesn't go to a hundred).
I'm trying to get a new piece of clothing made every night to wear the next day and failing miserably, not because I'm not excited about this project or because I don't have the time to sew, but because I drop every article of sewing like a hot potato as soon as I get to the point where it needs to be ironed. I've made two of these gathered skirts and they're easy and painless, just a big tube gathered onto a strip of t-shirt material, but I want to do some more complex, tailored things, professional clothes, shirts with buttons, shapely aprons, pleats, darts. IT'S TOO HOT. Tonight I cut out a charming little surplice top from a vintage pattern (printed in 1970, isn't it odd to be the same age as something that can be called "vintage"?), but when I had all the pieces cut it hit me: facings. Need to be ironed. Bah.
Posted by jodi at August 19, 2007 08:57 PM | categories: canadians love to talk about the weather : wardrobe project
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Had to laugh at the category...here I am, a Canadian, about to commiserate about the weather. OK, so Georgia is humid, but we are in monsoon season in Arizona, it was 115 F on my car thermometer yesterday and it's humid to boot! (Haven't said "to boot" in a couple years, felt good.) Love the clothes project, have had one of my own going for several years, mine are based on fabrics I find at Goodwill, no print studio at my disposal, or space at home. Sigh. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: chris at August 19, 2007 10:53 PM
I hate the sewing ironing in the summer in England, I think I'd pass out if I had to try and do it in temperatures over 75 degrees let alone 100!
I am loving your fabric prints, I don't know if part of your project is to make everything yourself but I wish I was closer so I could whip you up a few things from that fabric, it looks amazing!
Posted by: Anna at August 20, 2007 03:50 AM
Dude, some seriously cool stuff you're doing. I'm with you here, if the weather doesn't break soon, I'm moving to the North Pole.
Unfortunately, the pic I posted is the only one Bob had. He called it the automatic shopper.
Posted by: Sandy at August 20, 2007 05:52 AM
"in Canada the thermometer doesn't go to a hundred"
Not even the Fahrenheit versions, or so I understand!
But the Celsius ones go to "Eleven". And that's enough for Canada!
;-)
Posted by: NWJR at August 20, 2007 08:24 AM
I just love that photo of you...
Posted by: Norma at August 20, 2007 04:46 PM
This is a brilliant project, dear Jodi. I have enjoyed watching it here and on Flickr. I can totally understand about the iron. I hate ironing... I never do it...
Posted by: Lolly at August 21, 2007 07:53 AM
Dude, I am having so much fun watching all the clothes you are making. This is a really cool project. Can you cut yourself some slack and sew a headband/kerchief once in a while? That counts, right?
Posted by: Carrie at August 21, 2007 08:22 AM
The clothing is so cool! What a creative idea for an artist.
I loathe ironing and yet I keep buying clothes that need to be ironed. I pull out the ironing board about once a month and turn on some trashy TV show and set to. Sometimes, there are a few things that pile up, ignored. When I get to that pile, it's almost like having new clothes. "Hey, I forgot I had that shirt!"
Posted by: liz at August 22, 2007 07:13 AM
them skirts ever gonna make it to the etsy shop?
Posted by: The at August 25, 2007 03:08 PM
Oh Jodi, you do my heart good! I'm so proud of you...
and now can I jump in there with Lolly and beg you for a printed kerchief to wear on my head?!?
You know that the last few years, that's been my look ~ loooong braids and a kerchief to hold all the frizzies back.
How's my t-shirt going by the way?
I found you the coolest little piece of kitch today.
Perhaps I'll mail it to you...
Huggs,
~M.
Posted by: Mary at September 7, 2007 04:28 PM