it will be soft and squidgy

[incandescens]

Today I have learned (or possibly been reminded of) an important lesson. If you make a narrow tube of stiff thick material, it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to turn it inside out. Even if you use a crochet hook and swear a lot.

(My brilliant idea for using some suiting material involved making a soft toy or two out of it. Said soft toy is now going to have wider arms/legs, and possibly made out of shirting rather than suiting material. Who says I can't learn from experience?)

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TIMING TOAST

There's an art of knowing when.
Never try to guess.
Toast until it smokes and then
twenty seconds less.

-- Piet Hein

Comments

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

They sell tools for turning long narrow tubes. One is a long rod with an eye on the end; you insert the rod in the tube and sew the far end to the eye. Then you pull the rod out.

[incandescens]

Interesting. I did try sewing a thread to one end, passing it through, and pulling on the thread, but the fabric of the tube was too thick and the tube was too narrow.

[archangelbeth]

Heh...

OH, HAI, WE HAD AN ERFCAKE!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000d75b#dyfi

[incandescens]

Good god! I'm glad you're okay.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I felt your erfcake!

[archangelbeth]

It was alarming! Only LOLCAT could express my alarm!

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

I did try to make a little teddy size of palm out of felt when I was in high school, said teddy is still sitting in my sewing box as a pin cushion, missing one arm and leg because of exact same problem.

[incandescens]

Valuable experience, one of life's most annoying teachers.