I think we should reserve the hard chairs for MRAs (Tom Martin?). I don’t want any particular harm to come to penguins or kitties, it’s just that it’s not really my world, so I can definitely pretend to like them. 🙂 And the spinning seal is cute (and gives zero fucks)
I have made a couple of corsets, though more medieval ones. If I was at home, I could find the ref for the website the second time, when i was doing it alone.
Um..just general stuff.
Measure carefully.
Cut out your pattern in cheap material first to check.
Be very careful with the seams over the ends of the boning, especially if it is metal. They get a /lot/ of wear from them. http://www.renaissancetailor.com/demos_corset.htm is a good general site for reading about corsetmaking.
Nope, you’re lucky, can’t find any photos of the one I made online, they are all on my home computer where I can’t find them for 10 days or so 🙂
gillyrosebee
10 years ago
Thanks, gilshalos, that’s a really interesting site and I’ve now bookmarked it!
gillyrosebee
10 years ago
So, I’m sitting in my office, and down on the street a kid is walking by with his mother and singing a military style marching cadence in meows. And now I’m grinning and giggling.
As of today, all my orange kitties have been adopted 🙂
Unimaginative
10 years ago
Yay, katz!
I used to have an hourglass figure, before I got fat — well, I still had one, except bigger. And then my boobs kinda got out of control, and now I’m ridiculously top-heavy.
Anyway, even back when I was normal-sized, I had to surreptitiously* split up top & bottom pairs, because my bottom was always a size 9-ish and my top a size 13-ish. Sizes just vary so much, I have no idea, so I make a guess and try things on. And then I get chafed and impatient and give up. I hate clothes shopping.
*For some odd reason, retailers want you to buy pairs in, um, pairs. And back in those days, having matching or complementary tops and bottoms was a thing.
kittehserf - MOD
10 years ago
gilshalos, wow! I hadn’t seen those scarves. They’re stunning. Really like the first owl one!
(Uh, comment on distance between Aus and Scotland, not about shipper or artist)
I so know what you mean! Though you know one weird thing? It takes far less time for stuff to reach me from the UK than from the US. I’ve had UK deliveries arrive within a week, and that’s not express!
Aitch, welcome! And yay to white sweaters. Do you like the elaborately knit ones, the Aran types?
gillyrosebee, lots of hugs, and wish I’d heard meowing kid! 😀
katz, yay for the kitty adoptions!
grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago
Kitty adoptions, hooray!
pallygirl
10 years ago
Yay for all the adopted kitties to their forever homes. 🙂
@unimaginative: my issue has always been that I’ve been tall for my age and if you’re tall you must also have a relatively large bust. For ?reasons. So I had years of two piece things where the top fitted, but the bottom didn’t or vice versa. Also not helped as a teenager by a mother who would buy me clothing that was randomly 3 or 4 sizes too large – which is how I ended up with a very badly fitting one-piece bathing suit on year. It also meant it took me years to actually like clothes – as opposed to throwing on things to keep warm/not be naked.
kittehserf - MOD
10 years ago
I was lucky with kid clothing, my mum made quite a few of my outfits and I loved ’em.
She made a couple of matching outfits for my teddy bear, too. 🙂
Unimaginative
10 years ago
Kittehs, my mom made a lot of our clothes when I was very small. My sister and I had matching maxi-dresses and panchos and shirts and skirts. She made me jeans one year, with my initial on the back pocket. She made us kilts when we were in Scottish dancing. Good lord, she had talent! I didn’t appreciate a lick of it.
When I was a teenager in the ’80’s, though, home-made clothes were horribly un-cool. Also, mom had gone back to full-time work when my little brother went to Grade 1, and didn’t have a lot of time for sewing anymore. (No such thing as maternity leave back then, either.)
If anyone wants a little pick me up, here’s our wee Clementine getting a bath from her new big brother.
Unimaginative
10 years ago
I eat you!
Nuh-uh, I eat YOU!
kittehserf - MOD
10 years ago
Lick! Lick! CHOMP!
Unimaginative, your mum sounds like she was even better at clothes-making than mine. I remember a royal blue corduroy popover dress with a red zip down the front and a pleated hem – I loved that garment, the frill said “ballerina dress” to me when I was all of six. Mum knitted most of my jumpers when I was in primary school, but similarly to yours, she was working after that (this is from, oh, late 70s) and by then I was hitting my teens and not really wanting or needing home-made clothes. Thank goodness for the school uniform at high school, horrible as it was: my taste in clothes was quite unformed but it sure didn’t run to whatever was fashionable.
Aitch
10 years ago
kittehs, yeah definitely elaborate ones 🙂 I love the different patterns that you get on them. The Aran ones I find on seem a wee bit too warm for this weather though (I’m still pretending it’s summer) I like lighter ones like this also.
I have bad memories about kid clothes. Especially the ‘fine’ boys’ clothes, shirt and tie and pants that signal ‘look at this little man who is going to conquer the world when he grows up’. Ugh socialization. I did throw enough tantrums about it (not feeling proud of it but the kid way of resolving problems), that eventually my mum gave up and allowed me to wear my usual all-day clothes instead. 🙂
*prays that link mammoth leaves me alone*
kittehserf - MOD
10 years ago
That’s a pretty jumper, all right!
I love the look of the Arans so much, but winter here in Oz just doesn’t get cold enough to wear them. One day I want to knit something of the sort, but it’ll be an open jacket and in a lighter yarn, 8ply at most, I think.
Question for the peanut gallery: with contraception and STI testing, how long before two people forgo using condoms? Just wondering what the general consensus is.
kittehserf - MOD
10 years ago
Can’t help on that one, sorry!
pallygirl
10 years ago
I thought the limiting factor was how long to wait before an HIV test can be done post last partner. Which, back when I had my last test (thanks cheating partner #2) was a 3 month wait since last sex with possible infection contact. But that was like 15 years ago, so no idea what it is now.
Aitch
10 years ago
kittehs, thanks 😀 open wool jackets are nice too, and a lot easier to wear and fit. Just a warm fuzzy feeling they give off.
That’s another neat pattern on Mr K there. There’s probably precise vocabulary for identifying these but I’ll settle for adjectives atm. 🙂 At least with an open neck it isn’t quite as hot as the turtleneck ones.
No idea on marinerachel’s question here either. I’ve never really talked it out in my relationships, because awkward.
kittehserf - MOD
10 years ago
Warm fuzzy feelings are what I love about big knitted jackets! 🙂
I tend to go “Aran” or call things a fancy cable or something, I’m not flash with the terminology either. I can’t be having with the high necklines on knitwear these days. Skivvies yes, if they’re not tight, but not the jumpers. Mr K’s the same; I think forty years of high lace collars and stiffened doublet collars put him off forever.
Unimaginative
10 years ago
Oh, man, my little brother has been pining for one of those sweaters for years! They don’t come ready-made in anywhere near his size, and he somehow hasn’t tracked down a knitter willing to devote a year of his/her life to making one for him. (I’m exaggerating slightly, but still. He’s a big fellah, with a very long back.)
Or you can just keep using condoms for the birth control value. 🙂 Obvs each person decides for themselves, but it seems to me that it’s super ingrained in our culture that condoms are only for STD protection, so in LTR the woman (or person with womb and eggs, but that’s almost always a woman) is supposed to take pills or put something in her womb or the like instead – condoms are out of the question.
I used to be on the pill and was fine with it – although a scary amount of women, judging from stories I’ve been told by members on a pretty big Swedish feminist board where I used to be a member, seem to go round with more or less troublesome side effects from the pill that they regard as something simply to be put up with. Eventually, though, me and Husband decided to stop using the pill for birth control after we read an article on the environmental effects (like frogs and toads having fertility problems due to all the hormones floating around in brooks and swamps nowadays). Since we’re both scared of sterilization, we do condoms. They’re like 98 % safe (meaning 2 out of a 100 condom users get pregnant each year) if used perfectly – and perfectly only means you use them properly every time that you have sex, not that you’re some kind of amazing condom expert.
So, as I said, everyone decides for themselves, but I wish more people would at least deliberate about whether to just continue using condoms rather than taking as a given that the woman should do something with her body instead.
marinerachel
10 years ago
I’m the one who doesn’t like condoms. I have an IUD because I don’t want to use condoms if I’m exclusively having sex with someone for months and neither of us has any infections.
I won’t go the hormone route either though. Side effects alone chased me away from hormonal birth control.
marinerachel
10 years ago
I’mma be Professor Buzzkill for just a sec:
Relevant background info – I don’t believe in responsible breeding of cats and dogs as pets. As long as there are cats and dogs without homes being needlessly euthanised, I don’t think it should be permitted. Every cat or dog purchased is a death sentence for one who could have been adopted.
Anyways, I was listening to a couple old woman Rhodesian ridgeback breeders. Both expressed frustration over and described as silly the fact it’s hard to get a lot of vets to euthanise ridgeless puppies and that they have to go to great lengths to find old vets who view animals as a resource to put down healthy puppies due to ridgelessness. When confronted about the fact “These puppies are healthy” one argued “We percieve their lack of ridge as a genetic defect.” So, because a dog doesn’t qualify as pedigree it’s “defective” despite that genetic difference having no impact on it’s health and wellbeing (except for the fact you kill it if that’s the case.) These people Godwin themselves.
We Hunted The Mammoth
Thanks pallygirl! I will take it to heart.
I think we should reserve the hard chairs for MRAs (Tom Martin?). I don’t want any particular harm to come to penguins or kitties, it’s just that it’s not really my world, so I can definitely pretend to like them. 🙂 And the spinning seal is cute (and gives zero fucks)
I have made a couple of corsets, though more medieval ones. If I was at home, I could find the ref for the website the second time, when i was doing it alone.
Um..just general stuff.
Measure carefully.
Cut out your pattern in cheap material first to check.
Be very careful with the seams over the ends of the boning, especially if it is metal. They get a /lot/ of wear from them.
http://www.renaissancetailor.com/demos_corset.htm is a good general site for reading about corsetmaking.
Nope, you’re lucky, can’t find any photos of the one I made online, they are all on my home computer where I can’t find them for 10 days or so 🙂
Thanks, gilshalos, that’s a really interesting site and I’ve now bookmarked it!
So, I’m sitting in my office, and down on the street a kid is walking by with his mother and singing a military style marching cadence in meows. And now I’m grinning and giggling.
As of today, all my orange kitties have been adopted 🙂
Yay, katz!
I used to have an hourglass figure, before I got fat — well, I still had one, except bigger. And then my boobs kinda got out of control, and now I’m ridiculously top-heavy.
Anyway, even back when I was normal-sized, I had to surreptitiously* split up top & bottom pairs, because my bottom was always a size 9-ish and my top a size 13-ish. Sizes just vary so much, I have no idea, so I make a guess and try things on. And then I get chafed and impatient and give up. I hate clothes shopping.
*For some odd reason, retailers want you to buy pairs in, um, pairs. And back in those days, having matching or complementary tops and bottoms was a thing.
gilshalos, wow! I hadn’t seen those scarves. They’re stunning. Really like the first owl one!
I so know what you mean! Though you know one weird thing? It takes far less time for stuff to reach me from the UK than from the US. I’ve had UK deliveries arrive within a week, and that’s not express!
Aitch, welcome! And yay to white sweaters. Do you like the elaborately knit ones, the Aran types?
gillyrosebee, lots of hugs, and wish I’d heard meowing kid! 😀
katz, yay for the kitty adoptions!
Kitty adoptions, hooray!
Yay for all the adopted kitties to their forever homes. 🙂
@unimaginative: my issue has always been that I’ve been tall for my age and if you’re tall you must also have a relatively large bust. For ?reasons. So I had years of two piece things where the top fitted, but the bottom didn’t or vice versa. Also not helped as a teenager by a mother who would buy me clothing that was randomly 3 or 4 sizes too large – which is how I ended up with a very badly fitting one-piece bathing suit on year. It also meant it took me years to actually like clothes – as opposed to throwing on things to keep warm/not be naked.
I was lucky with kid clothing, my mum made quite a few of my outfits and I loved ’em.
She made a couple of matching outfits for my teddy bear, too. 🙂
Kittehs, my mom made a lot of our clothes when I was very small. My sister and I had matching maxi-dresses and panchos and shirts and skirts. She made me jeans one year, with my initial on the back pocket. She made us kilts when we were in Scottish dancing. Good lord, she had talent! I didn’t appreciate a lick of it.
When I was a teenager in the ’80’s, though, home-made clothes were horribly un-cool. Also, mom had gone back to full-time work when my little brother went to Grade 1, and didn’t have a lot of time for sewing anymore. (No such thing as maternity leave back then, either.)
If anyone wants a little pick me up, here’s our wee Clementine getting a bath from her new big brother.
I eat you!
Nuh-uh, I eat YOU!
Lick! Lick! CHOMP!
Unimaginative, your mum sounds like she was even better at clothes-making than mine. I remember a royal blue corduroy popover dress with a red zip down the front and a pleated hem – I loved that garment, the frill said “ballerina dress” to me when I was all of six. Mum knitted most of my jumpers when I was in primary school, but similarly to yours, she was working after that (this is from, oh, late 70s) and by then I was hitting my teens and not really wanting or needing home-made clothes. Thank goodness for the school uniform at high school, horrible as it was: my taste in clothes was quite unformed but it sure didn’t run to whatever was fashionable.
kittehs, yeah definitely elaborate ones 🙂 I love the different patterns that you get on them. The Aran ones I find on seem a wee bit too warm for this weather though (I’m still pretending it’s summer) I like lighter ones like this also.
I have bad memories about kid clothes. Especially the ‘fine’ boys’ clothes, shirt and tie and pants that signal ‘look at this little man who is going to conquer the world when he grows up’. Ugh socialization. I did throw enough tantrums about it (not feeling proud of it but the kid way of resolving problems), that eventually my mum gave up and allowed me to wear my usual all-day clothes instead. 🙂
*prays that link mammoth leaves me alone*
That’s a pretty jumper, all right!
I love the look of the Arans so much, but winter here in Oz just doesn’t get cold enough to wear them. One day I want to knit something of the sort, but it’ll be an open jacket and in a lighter yarn, 8ply at most, I think.
I love seeing Mr K in his fancy knits. (Of course, lol.)
I love that kitten’s coat.
Question for the peanut gallery: with contraception and STI testing, how long before two people forgo using condoms? Just wondering what the general consensus is.
Can’t help on that one, sorry!
I thought the limiting factor was how long to wait before an HIV test can be done post last partner. Which, back when I had my last test (thanks cheating partner #2) was a 3 month wait since last sex with possible infection contact. But that was like 15 years ago, so no idea what it is now.
kittehs, thanks 😀 open wool jackets are nice too, and a lot easier to wear and fit. Just a warm fuzzy feeling they give off.
That’s another neat pattern on Mr K there. There’s probably precise vocabulary for identifying these but I’ll settle for adjectives atm. 🙂 At least with an open neck it isn’t quite as hot as the turtleneck ones.
No idea on marinerachel’s question here either. I’ve never really talked it out in my relationships, because awkward.
Warm fuzzy feelings are what I love about big knitted jackets! 🙂
I tend to go “Aran” or call things a fancy cable or something, I’m not flash with the terminology either. I can’t be having with the high necklines on knitwear these days. Skivvies yes, if they’re not tight, but not the jumpers. Mr K’s the same; I think forty years of high lace collars and stiffened doublet collars put him off forever.
Oh, man, my little brother has been pining for one of those sweaters for years! They don’t come ready-made in anywhere near his size, and he somehow hasn’t tracked down a knitter willing to devote a year of his/her life to making one for him. (I’m exaggerating slightly, but still. He’s a big fellah, with a very long back.)
Or you can just keep using condoms for the birth control value. 🙂 Obvs each person decides for themselves, but it seems to me that it’s super ingrained in our culture that condoms are only for STD protection, so in LTR the woman (or person with womb and eggs, but that’s almost always a woman) is supposed to take pills or put something in her womb or the like instead – condoms are out of the question.
I used to be on the pill and was fine with it – although a scary amount of women, judging from stories I’ve been told by members on a pretty big Swedish feminist board where I used to be a member, seem to go round with more or less troublesome side effects from the pill that they regard as something simply to be put up with. Eventually, though, me and Husband decided to stop using the pill for birth control after we read an article on the environmental effects (like frogs and toads having fertility problems due to all the hormones floating around in brooks and swamps nowadays). Since we’re both scared of sterilization, we do condoms. They’re like 98 % safe (meaning 2 out of a 100 condom users get pregnant each year) if used perfectly – and perfectly only means you use them properly every time that you have sex, not that you’re some kind of amazing condom expert.
So, as I said, everyone decides for themselves, but I wish more people would at least deliberate about whether to just continue using condoms rather than taking as a given that the woman should do something with her body instead.
I’m the one who doesn’t like condoms. I have an IUD because I don’t want to use condoms if I’m exclusively having sex with someone for months and neither of us has any infections.
I won’t go the hormone route either though. Side effects alone chased me away from hormonal birth control.
I’mma be Professor Buzzkill for just a sec:
Relevant background info – I don’t believe in responsible breeding of cats and dogs as pets. As long as there are cats and dogs without homes being needlessly euthanised, I don’t think it should be permitted. Every cat or dog purchased is a death sentence for one who could have been adopted.
Anyways, I was listening to a couple old woman Rhodesian ridgeback breeders. Both expressed frustration over and described as silly the fact it’s hard to get a lot of vets to euthanise ridgeless puppies and that they have to go to great lengths to find old vets who view animals as a resource to put down healthy puppies due to ridgelessness. When confronted about the fact “These puppies are healthy” one argued “We percieve their lack of ridge as a genetic defect.” So, because a dog doesn’t qualify as pedigree it’s “defective” despite that genetic difference having no impact on it’s health and wellbeing (except for the fact you kill it if that’s the case.) These people Godwin themselves.