ompeluhimoja ~ sewing wishlist.

kuten ehkä mainitsin joskus (vanhassa blogissa) mie sain joululahjaksi OMPELUKONEEN! mutta nyt on jo huhtikuu enkä ole edelleenkään kerennyt ommella yhtään mitään. APUA. virallinen tekosyy on ettei mulla ole pöytää minkä päällä ommella. tietsikkapöydällä ei oo tarpeeksi tilaa. tai siis kaipa siihen vois siivota lisää tilaa väliaikaisesti niin on tilaa ommella jotain. toinen ongelma kai oli etten oikein tienny mitä ommella. oli tarkoitus ommella ensiksi kuumavesipullolle uusi päällinen mutta nyt on taas jo hieman liian lämmintä kuumavesipullolle. onneksi kun etsin huvikseni kaavoja, huomasin että simplicity kaavamerkillä oli menossa blogger sewing challenge ja osallistujat saivat kaavan ilmaiseksi. joten mie mailasin niille ja pyysin Best Vintage Make kategorian kaavaa. kategorioita on kolme ja mie valitsin vintagen lähinnä siksi että se oli ainoa kaava joka oli saatavissa mun kokoisena. ja senkin isoin koko on periaatteessa noin tuuman pienempi kuin minä. ärsyttää kun melkein kaikki kaavat on liian pieniä, ja mie en oo ees niin kauheen iso. ei oo reilua. kaava tuli postissa about viikkoa myöhemmin ja se on odotellut että pääsen ompelemaan.

as you may or may not know, i got a sewing machine for christmas! yay! but now it's already april and i still haven't sewn anything D: whyyyyy? the official excuse is that i don't have a table / space where i can put my sewing machine and sew. the computer desk doesn't have enough space. though i guess i could probably make some space on there temporarily so i can sew some stuff. but i've kind of been struggling to find a cool project to start with. i was going to make a new cover for my hotwater bottle but well, it's a bit warm now for my bottle. luckily while researching sewing patterns i found that simplicity (one of the main sewing pattern companies) is having a blogger sewing challenge and the patterns for free for participiants :D there's three categories and i emailed them few weeks ago for pattern for the Best Vintage Make category. i went for that category cos it was the only one of the three patterns that is actually available in my size. UGH. so annoying! but i got the pattern about a week later, and it's been sitting on my desk since waiting for me to get sewing!

^ tämä on se mun kaava. ei välttämättä malli jonka valitsisin itse mutta kuten mainitsin, ei ollut oikein valinnan varaa minun koossa. kyllä sille tulee käyttöä, jos tämä menee hyvin mie varmaan teen lisää keveitä kesäisiä puuvillaisia paitoja mitä pitää helteellä kun on t-paidat tuntuu liian ahdistavilta ja pitää mennä ihmisten ilmoille eli ei voi hengata kalsareissa :D valitettavasti mulla ei ole varaa ostaa 'kunnon' kangasta vielä ja kun en ihan luota mun ruosteisiin ompelutaitoihin tai että kaava on tarpeeksi iso. joten suunnitelma on ensin tehdä testi versio jostain halvasta materiaalista. ja mie kävin tuossa tiistaina etsimässä halpoja verhoja yms. ja kävipä mäihä; löysin hempeät kukkaraitalakanat sue ryderista hyvään hintaan.

^ this is the pattern for the challenge. it wouldn't be my first choice but as i mentioned, apparently fat gals cant be choosers. i think it'll be cool though, i really could do with a light cotton top in the high summer when t-shirt material is a bit too ugh clingy or w/e. i'm not sure what exactly i'm going to do for the challenge yet. but i know i need to get some fabric! unfortunately i'm broke as heck so i can't just go to the fabric shop and get the dreamy unicorn fabric i want to use for everything. (i think it's this one, or at least very similar) besides since i'm not 100% in my sewing skills, or that the pattern will actually fit me (it's just on the edge according to my measurements) so before i go for the proper garment, i'm going to do a test version from some cheaper material i'm not that bothered about 'wasting'. my plan was to get some curtains or sheets or something cheaply from one of the charity shops in town, and i went looking tuesday after work. i got some cheap floral sheets from sue ryder (£1.75!!!)

  

   

tämän jälkeen minulla on pieni ois kiva tehdä lista. mutta tästä oli helmpompi kirjoittaa englanniksi enkä jaksa kääntää niin ettei kuullosta tyhmältä.

i have a few things on my sewing to do / wishlist. even though i have now kind of found my long search wednesday addamsy dress, i want to also make one. i think i've found a suitable pattern (simplicity new look 6262), the only thing is the largest size is 2-3 inches smaller than my actual measurements... it's probably easy edit when i cut the pattern but it worries me. there's another very similar one (simplicity lisette 1419) that's largest size is only an inch smaller. but it doesn't have the option of full sleeves, and is a little bit more fitted than what i'm looking for.... the simplicity patterns are actually half price at the moment at my local fabric shop so i have a few other patterns i might buy while they're cheap? i thought 6840 would have been nice for cool blouses but but but i've just gone and realised it has a different size chart and is too small in the boob department, which is no good with blouses D: 6110 is pretty boring but a gal could always do with a good pattern for leggings. 3847 includes patterns for skirt, petticoat, shirt, apron AND hat; that's simply a bargain. and i could do with more skirts (and dresses) in that cut to go with my petticoat, i only have my green dress from lindy bop and the hell bunny zombie babe skirt. and as for 1426, a gal can dream of sassy bra tops. but i think i will only get one of the abover dress patterns and the 5-in-1 pattern. though knowing me, i'll snooze and lose, wait too long and miss the sale or they won't have the patterns i want in stock and the sale on the website will be finished by then. but i'm not going to get any more patterns til i've done this challenge one!

ompelemisesta joskus toiste sitten enemmän. vaikka sitten kun olen vihdoin saanut sen verran aikaseksi että leikkaa kaavan ja kankaan ja ompelen ja niin edelleen. mie meinasin tässä pe-la alottaa hommat mutta eihän mulla esim oo missään nuppineuloja yms tärkeitä tarpeita. ja ompelemisen sijaan tuli kirjoitettua sitä uutta zineä ja katsottua aika paljon salaisia kansioita ja vampyyri päiväkirjoja netflixistä ja steven universea ♥ ei ihan turhaa.

well anyway, more about sewing another time. maybe when i get around to actually cutting the pattern and the fabric and sewing and so on. i was going to start friday or saturday but then i realised i didn't have any pins or some other important sewing supplies. so instead of sewing related things i wrote a bunch of my new zine finally and watch a bunch of x-files and vampire diaries on netflix and steven universe ♥ so i have been productive while procrastinating. not bad.

GARDEN UPDATE: grow, grow, grow!

sori suomalaiset, en jaksa tänään puhua puutarhuroinnista suomeksi kun mun puutarhasanasto on englanniksi ja olen liian laiska kääntämään. lyhyt versio: suurin osa mun tomaateista kuoli mutta pistin hyvät tomaatit uusiin purkkeihin, chilipippurit pärjää ok ja mie pistin salaattia, yrttejä ja vadelmia kasvamaan.



gee, it appears it's been almost exactly a month since i wrote about my little gardening project. it wasn't intentional but i happen to have a gardening update.

it took about 2/3 weeks for the tomatoes i sowed in the seed trays to start peeking out of the dirt. funnily enough they sneakily did it while i was in sheffield zine festing. like nothing when i left and when i got home there was a bunch of green stuff sticking out of the dirt, and they were surprisingly big too! i was super excited and had a good feeling about them but.... they are all dead now. i'm not exactly sure what went wrong. they just got really spindly and long but didn't stay upright? the theory is that they didn't get enough sun. but i couldn't get them anywhere sunnier in the seed trays. the chillies are doing ok, i think cos they are still small enough for me to keep the propagator lid on. i actually need to just chuck the tomato seed trays cos they're making me feel bad D: i did have some more tomatoes growing in a seed pot on the window sill and it's doing super well so it's not all gone wrong! i think seed pots will probably be the way for me, as i can fit them on the actual window sill.

i repotted the beautiful healthy tomato seedlings the day before yesterday because when i got home i noticed that somehow the poor pot had been knocked over and the poor babies were covered in evil dirt! my ma-in-law had told me to not touch the stems when i eventually replant them but it was kinda had not to. replanting was surprisingly hard and i really hope i didn't fuck it up and kill them too. fingers crossed. they seem fine today. though the leaves are still a bit covered in dirt.. oops.

recently i got a little salad mix growing kit from poundland, i think it's been growing for about 2 weeks. i've only got little tiny seedlings peaking out of the compost so far but it's not looking too bad. also the seed pot chilli is doing pretty good. and today i sowed some coriander and basil and finally planted the part grown raspberry shrub my ma-in-law gave me a couple of weeks ago. the last couple of weeks had been if not cold, at least rather windy or a bit miserable so i hadn't felt like going on the balcony. and besides our fence had fallen over in the strong winds. and some other excuse. i still have some crocosmia bulbs to plant but i forgot what i was supposed to do.. not sure that whole fuschias and lupins plan is gonna happen btw. i just... i don't know. i'm honestly not entirely sure what to do once all this needs to come out of the little tubs D: but i think i'm fine for another month at least.

#FBF: MASS EMOTIONS &how to get them.

tuossa yksi yö mie selailin mun vanhojen livejournaalien läpi kun yritin ottaa selville että milloin mun pari todella vanhempaa zineä oli valmistunut. mie aloin kirjoittamaan livejournaliin ihan oikeasti 26. kesäkuuta 2001 eli mun 19vee synttärinä. ja kirjoitin sinne eri käyttäjänimillä johonkin kesään '09 asti aika vakituisesti kunnes 'kunnon' blogi ja tumblr ja vittu twitter olivat jotenkin jostain kumman syystä jännempiä ja kivempia kirjoitella. toisinaan on kyllä vähän ljtä ikävä. siellä mie 'tein' mun melkein kaikki internetti kaverit ♥ (ellei olla tutustuttu 2008 jälkeen) siellä oli kivaa ja salaisuuksia ja vaikka aina välillä kaikki sanoo että hei let's bring livejournal back se ei vaan oo enää yhtään sama.

no mutta kuitenkin, kun mie olin siellä mie löysin vanhoja kuvia, ja myös vaikeen kautta mun teinirunoutta (mutta sitä en ole kerenny vielä lukemaan kunnolla joten sitä en vielä jaa teitin kanssa.)

the other night i was trawling through my oldest livejournal entries as i was trying to figure out when some of my really older zines came out. unfortunaly even livejournal doesn't go back quite far enough to tell me when i made the first two. we will never know D: i started writing regularly in livejournal on my 19th birthday (26th June 2001) and i wrote there REALLY regularly and then not quite as regularly under many different usernames (i count about 10 different ones) until summer 2009. by then i got distracted by 'proper' blogging and tumblr and twitter and what have you and also most of my friends had stopped livejournaling as much/at all and the platform kept getting sucky all of a sudden. i do kinda miss livejournal, i made more or less all of my bestest internets friends there (unless we met after 2008) and we had fun and secrets and even though people say every once an a while things like LETS BRING LIVEJOURNAL BACK it just wouldn't be the same anymore.

anyway, while i was there i kind of totally found some hilarious old photos of me, and my teenage poetry (which i havent read yet so im not gonna share it with you yet, but lets just say i'd totally written a fake song called Queerophobic and another one about the you're wearing slutty clothes side of slutshaming and something that was essentially is a rebel girl ripoff. gosh i was such a baby queer feminist. none of these actually had music though cos i couldn't play/write music... can't decide if that's a good or a bad thing. but you know what, i will probably one day use some of this amazing retro material.)

you always wanna hear the same old song ♫♪ come on play another song!

mie kävin viime viikolla katsomassa sleater-kinneytä ja hieman hengaamassa vanhan ystäväni riikan kanssa lontoossa. riikka kun asuu taas helsingissä häntä ei tule nähtyä kauheen usein joten vaikka noin KAIKKI IKINÄ (oikeesti ainakin 20+ netistä ja muusta tuttua) oli menossa kyseiselle keikalle ja olivat tapaamassa pubissa etukäteen, mie päätin mennä keikkapaikalla 'ajoissa' riikan kanssa että päästiin eteen kun riikka on vähän lyhyen puoleinen leidi. riikka kun on samassa maassa aika harvoin, ja näitä muita voi nähdä joskus ens kerralla eikö joo?

pins niminen bändi oli lämppärinä ja ne oli hyviä, mun ja riikan mielipide oli lähinnä 'ihan kiva mutta needs more fat babes'. niin ja sleater-kinney oli tosi tosi tosi hyviä mutta mie olin hieman kipeä, jalkoihin sattui seisominen toisessa rivissä ja edessä seisovalla pitkä- ja kiharatukkaisella tytöllä oli hiukset auki ja ne oli koko ajan tämän mummon suussa. ARGH. ja biisilistalla oli tosi paljon kamaa the hot rockin jälkeen ilmestynyiltä levyiltä ja ne ei oo yhtä tuttuja kuin 4/5 ekaa levyä ja se uusin :( eikä ne soittanu mun lempibiisiä (soittivat kyllä sen manchesterissä ja glasgowssa kuulemma. *valitus*) mutta silti tosi niin tosi hyviä ♥ ♥

mun ei ollut tarkoitus kirjoittaa erikseen juttua tästä keikasta mutta sitten mie eilen latasin kaikki kuvat mun pokkarista ja ne ei ollukaan kaikki ihan tosi paskoja :D tässä niistä pari parasta + kaksi ekaa kuvaa ovat ihanan ja parhaan keikkakaverini riikan puhelimesta. loput voi nähdä täällä mun keikkakuva-arkistossa..
 

i went to london the other week to see sleater-kinney and my oldest internets friend riikka ♥ ♥ ♥ since she's back in finland these days i dont get to see her much anymore, so even though PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE EVER (srsly at least 20+ i know off internets etc) was going to be at the gig & meeting up at wetherspoons near the venue before hand, i elected to just hanging out with riikka and go to the venue early so we could get to the front since riikka is on the shorter side. i can see uk people any old time, or w/e. i hoped i would bump into people afterwards but almost everyone dissappeared off somewhere while we were getting our coats from the cloakroom...
anyway, the support band, pins, were pretty cool, but in both me & riikka's opinion needed more fat babes. cos we like fat babes. and sleater-kinney of course were AMAZING. but i was feeling a bit poorly and my feet hurt from all the standing and the girl in front of me had reeeeally bushy long hair that she hadn't tied up so it was in my mouth like the whole time (seriously people, if you have long hair and you're going to a gig that's gonna be packed PLEASE TIE UP YOUR HAIR. mine's not that long, and i still did it cos i'm considerate like that. and a grumpy old lady apparently. generally realised that day how much i need my personal space these days. ugh) and a lot of the setlist was post- the hot rock and i'm not really familiar with that material like i am with the first four albums + the new one. (funny thing is i actually own all hands on the bad one on vinyl but havent really listened to it since i 'accidentally' stole it from an old.... something) aaand they didn't play the song i really really really wanted to hear (they did play it both in manchester and glasgow though. *grumble grumble*) but they did play get up and words & guitar and turn it on and end of you and soooo on. yeah. they were still amazing. and yet again i'm all like need get the new band started goddamnit aaaarrrggghhh inspired.
i wasn't actually going to write a separate blog post about the gig but last night i downloaded all the photos from my shitty little compact and some of them actually turn out not too bad! so here's some of my faves, and the first two are from riikka's phone. you can see the rest here at my gig photography archive

 

http://obscene.vampiresushi.co.uk/sleater-kinney/

zine festailut ♥ ♥ ♥ / zine festing

hups. on taas menny vahingossa vähän hiljaseksi. en muista miksi. oli kai tarkoitus kirjoittaa uutta kunnon zineä (näin on tehty ja kunhan saan jostain uuden liimatikun niin alan askartelee paskartelee mitä olen jo kirjoittanut.) ja mie oon kans hieman sairastellu tai jotain. ugh. ja nyt ei oo enää paljon ees zinefesteistä sanottavaa. aika perusreissu. oli kivaa, näin kavereita ja muuta zineväkeä, myin zinejä, tein vaihtokauppoja ja hankin myös uutta / lisää myytävää distroa varten, niin ja pyöritin viime hetken minizine työpajan. kuten aina, mie en muistanut taaskaan ottaa paljon kuvia tai mitään.. mutta tässä kuva jonka otin vampire sushi pöydästä ennen kuin kukaan kerkes tulla ostamaan ja sotkemaan, ja kuva jonka ystäväni Sarah-Beth otti minulle. ja sitten ja minun 'ostoksia'...

oopsies. been a while since i blogged, yet again. can't exactly remember why anymore. i think i've been kinda busy working on a new zine, since i had to start from scratch for reasons that aren't mine to tell (ooooh so cryptic) and though i feel like i've been slacking and not done anything and have writer's block, i do have almost 3000 words ready to cut and paste on to paper as soon as i get a fresh gluestick. i've also been a bit poorly, just getting better now. there's not much to say about sheffield zine fest. i had fun times, saw friends and zine folk, sold lots of zines & prints, traded a bunch of zines and got new distro stock. oh and ran a last minute minizine workshop. and as usual with zine fests, i didn't really take any pictures, cos i never get around to it! but here's one i did manage to take of my table, and a picture of me at my table taken by Sarah-Beth for me. and then some of my 'haul'.

1. kuva: vaihtokaupat, paitsi muistinpa juuri että mie ostin ostin Poor Lass #3n. puolet olen jo jopa kerennyt lukemaan ♥ &hearts &hearts. lemppareita ovat scratch that itch #4 ja ellipsis #4 näin äkkii, 2. kuva: ostoksia + vaihtokauppoja ystävältäni steve larderilta, vihdoin oma ihan Copy Scams 10" levy jee! se on ihan paras. zine aiheista pop punkkia. 3. kuva: vikat ostokset Marching Stars distrosta, se kun on valitettavasti menossa kiinni :( (kantsii mennä tilaamaan jotain ennen kuin on liian myöhäistä!) 4. kuva näyttää uutta distro varastoo! niiden sivuille lisäily on vielä hieman kesken, mutta loppuviikosta viim.

1st pic: all the trades! though i've just remembered i actually bought bought poor lass #3! 2nd pic: trades + shopping from steve larder. finally got my actually proper 10" copy of the Copy Scams record. happy days ♥ 3rd pic: last bit of shopping from Marching Stars Distro, collected from Lizzy in person. still sad they're closing.. 4th pic: some of the brand new distro stock that i'm still in process of adding on the website cos this time i wanna actually have descriptions when i add them on instead of 'DESCRIPTION COMING SOON'. done about half of them so far.

seuraavat zinefest hommat on toukokuun lopussa, kaksi peräkkäistä viikonloppua huh huh = DIY cultures lontoossa ja Northwest Zine Fest manchesterissa. siihen mennessä pitäis olla jo uutta kunnon zineä valmiiksi jee.

next bit of zinefesting fun is at the end of may, with TWO IN TWO WEEKEND IN A ROW OMG = DIY Cultures in london on 24th May and Northwest Zine Fest in manchester on the 30th. (also, the julie ruin gig that was cancelled last spring has been rescheduled for 26th may, so that's gonna be a heavy seven days..) by then i reckon i will have a proper new zine done.