dry selvedges
Dec. 22nd, 2006 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleMonday, I went to the fabric store. I wasn't thinking of buying cloth. I don't sew more than minimal mending, and sometimes not even that. I was just going to the fabric store because a knife sharpener (who is also a scissor sharpener, presumably) picks up and delivers there, as a convenient service to customers. Wow. Sharp knives make life easier.
While I was there, I saw something that made me think "Ooo -- shiny!" Or whatever the equivalent is for fuzzy fleece stuff with dinosaurs, that only needs to be cut into strips to become scarves for chilly little dinosaurophiles. The clerk was kind enough to sell me 3/4 of a yard, 1/4 yard at a time. I washed the sizing off, and cut off the little bits at each end, the ragged white bits with no dinosaurs. They look like scarves already. The only question now is whether I should make them into *different* scarves. I could cut fringes into one, to keep them from being quite identical. I don't know if that would aggravate the problem of wanting whatever one's sister has, that I am trying to prevent by giving them two. (The third is mine.)
This past summer, I went to an acupuncturist a few times. After a few treatments, he said my nerves were too hypersensitive for him to do any lasting good, and I should come back when my hands were under less physical strain, or when I was taking more effective medication for nerve damage. One of the things he tried, but was not able to do, was to bandage my hand in a way that put pressure where pressure actually helps. When I hold my bad hand in my good hand, I press on the side of the wrist in a spot that helps. (I do this reasonably often, when it gets bad.) But trying to bandage it that way just did not work. We tried gauze, tape, elastic bandages, cloth bandages, various things with lumps of stuff to try to press on the tendon. None of them work, at least not the way I can fasten them. I don't try very often, because it's such a hassle. But there are 6 strips of fleece on my desk, half printed with dinosaurs, half blank, all very soft and inviting me to fidget with them. I can tie one around my wrist with one hand and my teeth, and pull it tight up against the spot where pressure feels good. It relaxes in a few minutes, which is probably good for the safety of my fingers. But I can have that pressure against the tendon (which the acupuncturist called "supportive" and I just think feels good) provided by fuzzy dinosaurs while I do something strenuous like turn a pair of wet jeans right-side-out.
While I was there, I saw something that made me think "Ooo -- shiny!" Or whatever the equivalent is for fuzzy fleece stuff with dinosaurs, that only needs to be cut into strips to become scarves for chilly little dinosaurophiles. The clerk was kind enough to sell me 3/4 of a yard, 1/4 yard at a time. I washed the sizing off, and cut off the little bits at each end, the ragged white bits with no dinosaurs. They look like scarves already. The only question now is whether I should make them into *different* scarves. I could cut fringes into one, to keep them from being quite identical. I don't know if that would aggravate the problem of wanting whatever one's sister has, that I am trying to prevent by giving them two. (The third is mine.)
This past summer, I went to an acupuncturist a few times. After a few treatments, he said my nerves were too hypersensitive for him to do any lasting good, and I should come back when my hands were under less physical strain, or when I was taking more effective medication for nerve damage. One of the things he tried, but was not able to do, was to bandage my hand in a way that put pressure where pressure actually helps. When I hold my bad hand in my good hand, I press on the side of the wrist in a spot that helps. (I do this reasonably often, when it gets bad.) But trying to bandage it that way just did not work. We tried gauze, tape, elastic bandages, cloth bandages, various things with lumps of stuff to try to press on the tendon. None of them work, at least not the way I can fasten them. I don't try very often, because it's such a hassle. But there are 6 strips of fleece on my desk, half printed with dinosaurs, half blank, all very soft and inviting me to fidget with them. I can tie one around my wrist with one hand and my teeth, and pull it tight up against the spot where pressure feels good. It relaxes in a few minutes, which is probably good for the safety of my fingers. But I can have that pressure against the tendon (which the acupuncturist called "supportive" and I just think feels good) provided by fuzzy dinosaurs while I do something strenuous like turn a pair of wet jeans right-side-out.
