The Damned Are Welcome Here

First thing I want to say is that I hate Etsy.

I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. Really want to stress the point that I absolutely and unequivocally hate them.

Started setting up my shop and everything was going swimmingly until I had to upload a selfie. Two selfies, actually. But for some reason, Etsy couldn’t access my camera. The camera works. I’ve given permission to Etsy to access my camera. But it keeps telling me it can’t access it. I am utterly done with Etsy.

So, I’ve been thinking. What if I just started another website and sold my stuff on its own. Would that work? Will have to look into that.

Whatever I end up doing, I want to spend some time like this:

Anyway, onwards. Did a bit of work on the pillow sham and I have one question: who is the idiot who thought it would be a good idea to use 18 canvas? Oh, that’s right, it was me, she says with a sheepish look on her face. For those not in the know, Aida canvas is named by the number of threads there are in an inch. 18 canvas has 18 threads per inch. Anyway, thought I’d continue with the 18 count because apparently, I don’t have enough misery in my life.

That’s what I thought while I was doing a small sample, but nope, nope, nope, and again, nope. This is way too hard. I’m using both magnifying lenses I have, one on top of the other, plus my reading glasses and nope, nope, nope, and nope.

Okay, I think I’ll do this in 11 threads per inch. I hate to spend more money for new Aida cloth, but what’s a semi-blind goth girl to do? Pry open her wallet, again, and get something better, I guess.

Something is going well, actually. Started making my linen shirt. Cut out the body and the sleeves. I like Vincent Briggs YouTube video about machine sewing a pirate shirt and think I will follow it for the most part. He’s pretty good at explaining things. You can find the video here. And I ordered the cotton crochet thread to do the lace. Got it from Yarnspirations. Great website, by the way.

Now, for the Dali jacket. It’s not going well, not as badly as Etsy, but still bad. Got the Bubble Jet Set stuff and followed the directions. Thing is, my printer can’t seem to cope with it. Don’t know why, exactly, but it may be because it made the fabric thicker. It keeps getting caught up in my printer. Do have to say that the Bubble Jet Set stuff really works. With one of the mangled pieces of fabric, I let it dry, as they say to do, and then put it in some water and, drumroll please, not a single spec of ink leached out. Nothing. The water I put the fabric in was clean as a mountain stream afterwards. Stupendous.

So, now for my last try at this, I ordered printable fabric from Staples. If that doesn’t work, I think I’m going to have to give up on the Dali jacket. I’ll do some kind of slow stitching with other kinds of bits and bobs. Maybe in purple and green, a combination I love. Everything might still turn out okay, but this whole thing has really been exasperating, to say the least.

You know, you just want to make something nice for yourself and everything that can go wrong does.

Okay, enough bellyaching for now.

If the Dali idea doesn’t work out, was thinking of using this image for inspiration:

Beautiful, isn’t it? Don’t know where I got this picture, so can’t give credit. Would like it to be a bit more goth, though.

Thank you all for coming. Hope to provide a new post in two weeks.