where are your gloves and your helmet?

( Rode my bike to the ferry and then to work. Took this photo in a machine room before changing into my Grownup Clothes. )

Pattern for top is Greenstyle Creations' Waimea rashguard, color block variation, with standard length and short sleeve options. Size I. Fabric is Sew Dynamic athletic knit, 245 gsm, in Enchanted Geode and Whale Shark colors. Thread used was primarily Gutermann recycled polyester Mara 100 rPET royal blue and light blue, with seams serged using Maxi-Lock thread from Wawak.

The bottom is also handmade, although that one was done a month or two ago. Greenstyle Creations Spark tights pattern, size H, bike shorts length. Fabric is Sew Dynamic AK 245 in Night Sky and Geo Misty Trees, printed crossgrain (I hadn't realized that this would result in horizontal stripes, I wasn't looking at the grain direction on the shorts pattern when I bought the fabric). Also Gutermann Mara 100 and Maxi-Lock thread.

Air hose is because I have no full length mirror and rode my bike to work this morning so the photo was taken in the only place where I could set up the phone for a selfie and have a blank wall behind me. Which is to say, in a room with a backup portable AC unit with a ventilation hose running into the ceiling. Sorry.

Resource URLs:

https://greenstyle.com/collections/womens-tops/products/waimea-rash-guard
https://greenstyle.com/products/spark-tights-pdf-pattern-sizes-b-m
https://www.sewdynamic.com/collections/athletic-knit-245-us
https://www.wawak.com/thread/thread-by-use/all-purpose/gutermann-mara-100-rpet-100-recycled-polyester-thread-tex-30-1093-yds/
https://www.wawak.com/thread/thread-by-brand/maxi-lock/maxi-lock-serger-spun-polyester-thread-tex-27/

... almost forgot. The reason I use the Sew Dynamic fabrics is because Sew Dynamic sells Repreve for consumers. The cloth here is made entirely from recycled polyester and a bit of elastane (Spandex, whatever). I think it represents the use of something like 15 or 16 plastic bottles per yard. Sew Dynamic also offers recycled-fiber swim fabric, but that uses nylon, so instead of post-consumer plastic bottles the recycled content of swim fabric mostly comes from scrap generated by the carpet industry.

The town I live in has old water pipes. They're going to be doing work on my street from now until sometime in June to replace them. This is understandable; the old pipes had lead and other contaminant issues. But it's not quiet, that's for certain.

I still have the sound-deadening curtains I got last year in the front room. I'm working from home three days a week from now until Labor Day. I'm not sure those curtains are quite enough. Not when they'll be digging up the street, jackhammering the pavement, and launching into the traditional summertime sounds of LAWN MOWERS EVERYWHERE.

Not really loving the idea of buying more of those same curtains- I don't like to put money in Bezos' pocket if I can avoid it, the way Amazon treats people- but...

Well, I just recently finished making some drapery for my nibling's bedroom, and I've found a place that sells fabric for theatrical applications. Not costume fabric. Fabric for hanging on the walls and across the stage of theaters. I was not aware that there were special versions of velour specifically designed for theatrical acoustic needs, or that they make velour from recycled plastic bottles. A commercial soundproof curtain panel for home use consists of three layers of felt and blackout fabric, and felt can be had from any number of places...

How difficult is velour to sew?