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i folded the hem up twice more than that and it would have looked like a fat doughnut at the bottom of the pants then i hand stitched the hem in just four places at each seam and halfway between seams then i put some safety pins in the pockets for those students because i know what teenagers are like they re going to have to be careful and take their shoes off before they put their pants on i might not mention the shoes part except i have a couple of teenagers and so i know here s what it looks like when the hem is done it looks good but it s a pretty delicate hem i hope the kids are careful well that s it for the pants hems but as long as i had all the pants out and was fooling around with them i examined the crotches the above is a crotch seam in good repair most of the pants were like this but not all of them i checked them all because this is the kind of repair a kid might not notice until it is too late nobody wants to march with their undies showing this one was looking a little dicey even though the pants fabric is not stretchy i chose a stretch stitch because it is very strong then i just ran over the seam to make sure it wouldn t come apart during a performance it only takes a minute and i think it s completely worth it hey i m tired of pants let s move on to jackets the jackets were a lot less complicated i decided to stitch the jackets by hand because look at these linings unlike the outer fabric on the uniforms the linings are just very thin slippery polyester i mean they re linings right but they re starting to shred a bit in places i thought if i used sturdy but harsh techniques like anything involving the sewing machine they would completely fall apart wherever i found holes like this i put in a few hand stitches to sort of darn them shut and hopefully buy us another year or two so i just rolled up the sleeves pressed them i had my iron back yaaay and hand stitched like this i tucked in the lining a bit as i went along so that i wouldn t be left with a huge old sag and that s it i know if you have by some miracle stumbled across my little blog you were probably looking for information on how to hem your own band uniform so i understand that you ve got a band that you love but if you ve got a few of extra bucks and you d like to blow them on a worthy cause please consider helping my daughter s band out with their new uniforms you can see that they need them here s a link thank you share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in repair sewing super easy tutorials tagged band uniform diy hem jacket hem pants sewing 1 comment inexpensive back yard slide posted on august 26 2016 august 26 2016 by marialikesducks i needed a slide in the back yard for my son he is seventeen and he really needs a slide in his yard i could take him to a playground and i do but sometimes there are gobs of other kids there and their parents seem to feel a little funny about what appears to be a large grown man taking turns on the equipment with their toddlers i get that it makes sense for my son to have his own slide in his own yard but wow guess what i m going to sound like the big cheese at an iep meeting but there are financial constraints there are other constraints too sometimes you can find someone willing to sell you the playground their kids have outgrown for a song but the catch is that you need to disassemble it haul it to your place and then reassemble it yourself i ve assembled playgrounds and i ve disassembled playgrounds in my experience it takes about 2 3 times as long to disassemble a playground as to assemble it that s because there are no instructions the metal parts have gotten rusty the wooden parts have rotted and splintered and the playground has sunk into the ground you may find this to be worth your time but it depends on your situation since i wasn t doing the whole swingset thing i found it easier to just build a little slide i looked for a used plastic slide in my area but i didn t have any luck so i ordered one online i built the support for the slide out of thrifted lumber and hardware from the habitat for humanity store at my local store people donate all kinds of building materials some of them new and some of them used they have a big pile of lumber out in the back and i picked through it three weeks in a row to gather the boards i needed i used 4x4s 2x4s 4x6s and 1x whatevers the boards i bought were all sorts of lengths and parts of them were damaged so i did a lot of trimming i had some screws and other hardware on hand and the rest i bought at the habitat store since my son is a teenager who knows that he shouldn t jump off the top of the slide i did not bother putting a rail or fence at the top if i were building this for a younger child i would do it differently i put drawer handles on the deck at the top so that my son could easily pull himself up i also put some solar lights at the top right near the slide part because my son is really into reflectors i mean he is really really really into reflectors he likes to play in the dark just so that he can see the lights since i used thrifted lumber this slide may not last as long as a slide built from brand new lumber i ll have to keep an eye on it to make sure it s safe to use i guess i would do that anyway though i built a ladder right into the tower for the slide my son doesn t like it so much so when i get a little free time i ll make him a ladder too he s right it is easier to climb up when you can do it at an angle but he s enjoying his slide just fine in the mean time i can tell he likes it by the ruts in the landing area share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in diy kids tagged autism brag post cheap diy kids recycled 1 comment even tinier crochet owl posted on july 5 2016 by marialikesducks this time i used thinner yarn and a smaller hook to make an extra tiny owl i only have one size of eyes though so it looks a little funny my daughter thought this was just the head because the eyes are so huge in relation to the body i know a lot of crafters use small glass beads for eyes on really tiny crochet animals so maybe i ll try that next time share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in crochet tagged amigurumi brag post crochet diy leave a comment tiny crochet owl posted on july 4 2016 by marialikesducks look who i found hanging out by my smelly shoes tiny crochet owl from scrap yarn ok i guess i found him there because i put him there after i crocheted him i got the pattern from esther here thanks esther it looks like she made hers from cotton thread so it s even tinier than mine sweet i m going to try again this time with teensy yarn to make a teensy owl share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in crochet tagged amigurumi brag post crochet diy quick 1 comment why am i crocheting warm slippers in the hot part of the summer posted on june 26 2016 by marialikesducks why because they are small and they use up scraps i had some chunky brown mystery yarn and a leftover bit of something soft and chunky and blue even though my feet were sweating buckets i felt the need to crochet some warm slippers i know i m sick that way then i held a strand of the brown chunky yarn together with some fuzzy stuff and made another pair i used an old fashioned no pattern type of pattern magic ring 6 sc for first round 12 sc for second round sc around for awhile then make the opening and keep crocheting until the slipper is a little shorter than my foot then sew up the heel sorry that s as detailed as it gets for me i was able to use up some scraps of yarn and i m sure in a few months i will be very glad for some warn slippers share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in crochet diy super easy tagged brag post crochet diy quick leave a comment crochet neko atsume cat that makes me very uncomfortable posted on june 22 2016 by marialikesducks my daughter is sooo into neko atsume you may not believe it s even possible for the uninitiated let me explain it s a game she has on her phone that involves leaving food and toys out for virtual feral cats and then getting all excited and squealing when the cats come to your house and eat your food and play with your toys and leave you little contributions it seems to be some of the fun of cats without the litter box and hairballs wait a minute i d better check on that there might be some sort of virtual digestive nuggets and fuzzpukes but if so they re probably really really cute i stumbled across this pattern on pinterest and dragged out a bit of my therapy yarn i used a little bit of bernat cottontots in sweet cream some red heart bijou in malted and some kind of plain black worsted mystery yarn i was all ready to get started when i noticed that the pattern told me to make only three legs screeeeech that s me putting on the brakes a discussion ensued yes yes i know in the game there are often only three legs showing we probably should assume the other leg is still there somewhere but in a two dimensional drawing on a phone game we only see three at a time but when i am making a three dimensional amigurumi cat i don t want to make it with only three legs poor little guy my daughter and i went back and forth a bit until i caved and mostly followed the pattern directions i love how it turned out thanks rachchua it s an adorable pattern i ll like it even better once i sew a fourth leg onto the back where no one will see it but me share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in crochet pets tagged amigurumi brag post crochet quick 2 comments what in the world was i thinking posted on may 16 2016 by marialikesducks so last night i was crocheting along with high ambitions for a shrug for my daughter i was really enjoying the artsiness of this novelty yarn and then about half way through the skein it all suddenly turned into this what what it turned from a nice ball of novelty yarn into a matted knotted maddening clump of string and lint maybe i should have pulled the yarn from the center instead of unrolling it from the outside of the ball it quickly disintegrated into 15 minutes of untangling 1 minute of crocheting then more untangling yikes so now i have finished my scarf and i have a clump of string and lint available for anyone that wants it share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in crochet oops silly tagged crochet finished object silly 2 comments what to do with this weird yarn posted on may 15 2016 by marialikesducks i picked up a couple of skeins of mystery yarn at big lots a couple of years ago it s gala yarn which seems to be a hodgepodge of maybe big name brand yarn that is slightly irregular or discontinued or something like that sometimes gala yarn is weird and sometimes it is gross and sometimes it is nice i ll classify this as weird it s a light yellowish color or maybe a very pale lime green and it looks like cotton crochet thread with caterpillar like clumps of sparkly fluff does that sound weird it might be a little weird the thready part does not feel like cotton it feels like acrylic to me the fluffy parts feel like polyester and i suppose the sparkly bits are nylon i ve played with it a bit and decided to crochet a big double crochet rectangle very complex i know and then i ll turn the rectangle into a shrug or something my daughter is into shrugs right now because her school does not allow tank tops with a shrug she can wear her tank top but have herself technically covered it s a bit of a dance because we live in north carolina and it gets hot long before the schools are allowed to turn on the air conditioning so she needs to stay cool but covered i ll keep working on this as a just before bed project so far i m having trouble deciding if this is fun and artsy or if it looks like a cat mauled it and then rolled it in lint maybe a little of both share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens 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