hemming and hawing

I'm finally hemming the sleeves on my black peacoat, the one I bought in high school. I have short limbs and getting hemming down is sure to help me throughout my life. I'm working from a hand-sewing tutorial online, though soon I hope to be learning on a machine. Tom and I have decided this would be one of the smartest things we could do (learn to sew), and his mom might have a machine for me, which is great because we can't afford one right now (and possibly, ever).

Hark! Do I hear an icecream truck? At 8 o'clock? (Sadly, my initial assumption was that it was someone's cell phone ringing - Oh, this day and age!)

Anywho, I know I should have a picture or something to liven up this post but my camera battery keeps being dead every time I pick it up. What am I doing wrong?

Some day when it's not so hot I'll try to post pictures of ALL my projects, which would probably be a great motivator.

Along with my coat sleeves I've been patching up other fall gear and will soon be hemming more. The bell-bottom jeans I always get complimented on are unfortunately ill-suited for Oregon's cooler weather as they hit the ground on all sides of my foot, the wet ground. So those are gettin' the chop as well. I also have decided to take my shortest skirt and make it a real mini. It's high time I embraced my legs. Short as they are they're nice enough to look at and you're only young once, right?

I'm realizing in all this fabric-related project doing that I need a damned iron. I've managed without one since I gave mine away when I moved from Portland. That was... 5? years ago. Sweet, sweet years. Maybe I could get by borrowing one.

I'm pleased to round the day off by doing something productive. I've been impaired today by female ailments that caused me to hover near sleep for the largest part of the day. But I've eaten my pancakes (I've been eating nothing but pancakes lately) and had some green tea and am... eh, slightly energized...

Actually, I'm feeling a bit tired. Best get back to the hemming.