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[camwyn]

Turns out at least part of my sewing machine troubles is because T-shirt fabric really isn't a good idea to try and learn sewing-machine-fu on. I have since gone looking through my closet for items that are cotton, good quality weave, and unworn in over a year, ideally longer than that. I can worry about hauling other stuff to the nearest clothing drive or donation point another time. If it's decent weave cotton and hasn't been worn in a year or two it's not getting worn any time soon, so mask material is a better use for it than no use at all. So far I've turned up an old pinstriped office shirt that is ridiculously tight around the armpits, which I think is because it was a little small when I originally got it but also because I've been doing various forms of weightlifting three to four days a week for more than a year now, which does things to one's shoulders. I know there's a shirt in there somewhere that I somehow bought entirely by mistake- I genuinely do not know how I wound up with something in a size 6P- which I hope to verify is cotton, as it was plain and white and easy to cut up, and if nothing else white fabric can be bleached as needed. There are others, I know.

In related 'I made a mistake but now have moved to correct it' news, the flaxgoop nightmare is done and I have made proper, recognizable oat milk again. Much better in my coffee and less disturbingly squishy on its way out the bottle. And the oat pulp went into a batch of whole wheat hamburger rolls last night, which is my preferred way of using up the stuff. (I've been baking yeast bread of various forms for a long time, and have both a sourdough starter in my fridge and a pound of SAF Red Instant Yeast in my freezer. The starter mostly gets used as a contribution to homemade pizza dough, but I have a few good sourdough recipes that I work up from time to time, too.) Still using up what's left of the actual flax pulp strained out of the 'milk', though. I could only put so much of it into yesterday's pancakes.

Comments

[neotoma]

You would need ball-point needles to deal with knitted fabric like t-shirt jersey. I don't think your little machine is capable of the kind of stitch for jersey, either.