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Damn.. Im heading to chch next week and was going to see if he wanted to catch up for a beer  been a couple of years since ive been down that way and im shit at staying in touch with people. 

Sad as, scrolling back through old messages, last one was me randomly checking in on him to see if he was ok just over a year ago.

The guy he presented on line was pretty true to him IRL. He was a chill bogan that was always with his mates drinking and smoking and having good chats. Last time I saw him he was wearing fugly cargo shorts and the rest of us were wearing his jeans, he was stoked as to see so many pairs in one place all with decent wear on them. It was the middle of summer and he ended up going on a bender and having a violent hangover. Rest in bogan peace.

On 1/28/2024 at 12:32 PM, rbeck said:

Stitched up a muslin (feels silly calling it that since I didn't use muslin) and used it as a cha

Toile is the word you need.

I get my students to use calico first to get a basic idea of fit then adjust to a cheap fabric similar to what they are designing toward then some partial toiles on their real fabric if needed. More skilled students go straight to cheap similar fabric. This is them drafting a basic body block then adapting and adjusting it to interpret whatever they have designed. One year I got them all to design, draft and make their version of 5 pocket jeans... never again. most should have gone to worlds ugliest jeans thread... yuh know miss, like a Bratz doll vibe. 

Also Seam guide.. your machine will have lines on it off to the side of the foot your eyes should be watching the cut edges lined up them, should be spaced out in 5mm or 1/4 inches depending on machine.... Or get so taylors chalk to draw guide lines in.

Found this.. it’s kind of nice. 

2 hours ago, Hopethisoneisnttaken said:

@tg76 brewdog punk ipa is sold in the same price as any brewdog beer and it’s pretty good (for me at least. My wife doesn’t like it as much). 

Would smash some right now. Finished a ride and it’s creeping up to 30, glad there are some clouds today.

Took my hat I made out of my yamane legs a couple of years ago for a coastal hike and plant shopping. 

I miss beer. Most of the gf ones aren’t worth the price tag, I’m always smelling other people’s beers and trying to imagine the taste. 
today is about 1/2 way through 6 week summer break and first day with no plans so a bit of cord/ rope making to tie back a plant. I whip these up with a loop in one end to tie up most  of my plants. And took my kitten for a walk, she loves getting out for an explore and she desperately wants to get free and chomp on some birds. Starting to place out plants for new garden, gotta go get more tomorrow so trying to have a shopping plan.

and I picked up some second hand Samurai, only worn once. Really nice chonky / slubby fibres. Been a long time since I’ve had new jeans to make comfortable.  Haven’t decided what to do with cuffs yet. 

The leg of my Dior jeans is stacking firewood. A cyclone back in Feb destroyed our 80 year old liquid amber tree. Have spent hours with chainsaws chopping and removing it. We are onto the last of it, Steve is splitting it and I’m stacking it. Leg of the jeans makes a great arm cover. One of our resident spiders as seen in the old movie arachnophobia.. love them but don’t like it when they accidentally get on me.

Out with the old in with the new. Retired the old $5 op shop Levis for some $10 op shop Diors. (Only for around the garden) 

Happy fresh from over here

nice summer morning so went for a bike ride, followed up with a counterproductive coffee. Planning on riding my bike more in January than the whole of 23.. not hard cause 23 was the year of the vastslug. 

11 hours ago, Hopethisoneisnttaken said:

 

New Zealand is awesome. I enjoyed it very much as a tourist (which is probably very different as a resident?). 

I love it now as a tourist in my own lands, its great having the time and money to head off and explore different parts. I'm in love with the south island and try and head there a couple of times a year. I let my passport lapse with all the COVID restrictions and haven't missed travelling too much, but I'm starting to look at get aways again.

I don't spend much time in the bigger cities here anymore, find Auckland claustrophobic after living there for too long, Wellington is great for a long weekend, I've got family there so can bounce in and out to events. Where I am there are only 100,000 people over quite a large area, hated it here when i was little, love it as an adult.

My last big purchase, which was three parts grief and one part union driven pay settlement, was a mainecoon kitten, decadent and stupid but the Band-Aid I needed at the time. 

6 hours ago, Hopethisoneisnttaken said:

@tg76 so that means no Japanese brands? 

yeah.

I've never shopped Japanese anyway. I got my Skulls second hand from Minya, my Evisu were a gift from Evisu for the dirty dozen +1 . 

My sufu approved jeans (that dont fit me anymore) are Andewhall (met several times, drank beer ate pizza) Mr freedom (flew into LA on way home from UK) ROY and CircleA (both purchased as part of jeans challenges way back).

Im hoping to head to Okinawa next year to visit an ex student that is working there now doing weaving and indigo dying.. I'm pretty sure as an almost 6' female I wont find many clothes that fit me.. too curvy these days to squeeze into mens jeans.

Love being a slob in my Byborre X miffy pants (met Sam years ago, still talk about trexes on instachat occasionally). 

I pretty much buy NZ made now.

When I worked retail in the city I loved SALE WEEK! back when there was only 1 or 2 sales a year. Because on my way to work I'd see my favorite designers put their signs up (they were never advertised in advance) and could get in early to get sample pieces and seconds. Pretty much everything I've ever purchased ON SALE I've regretted and not worn much before reselling because as mentioned above it wasn't THE PIECE. I figure if I didn't love it enough to buy it at full price, I don't need it.

After I stopped working in the retail fashion machine, and stopped doing WAYWT I pretty much stopped shopping. I've got rules now that I first had to stop me retail therapy shopping. 

1. only 5 new garments per year 

2. I need to be able to meet the maker if I wanted to, keeps me supporting local or flying to LA to go to Mr Freedom

Excludes socks, undies and exercise clothes, although most of my cycling clothes fit the rules.

Still love a bargain at an op shop, the worn once then sold or donated but the shop didn't know that label kind of find.

Out of my 3 wardrobes and numerous storage boxes of clothes, I pretty much wear my Byborre baggy pants, one pair of jeans, the same 8 t-shirts on rotation, Mr Freedom denim jacket and workshop denim jacket. Every now and then I'll wear a dress to work and everyone freaks out.

I get my dopamine kick from going plant shopping now and convincing Steve to let me dig up more lawn for more garden.

I kinda liked the lockdowns, but I'm in a position of privilege 

Also glad i was protected from the first strains cause the so called lighter / later one that i got at the start of this year has kicked my arse. Most stuff is back to normal 6 months later but my heart is a bit mental now.

Also, I fear the 3 headed monster that is about to be in the boss seats. ew politics.

Jeans related one of my ex students is now living in Okinawa doing a weaving and natural dying intern thing, she sent me a whole lot of links to do with ROY saying I feel like you would appreciate this guys work, she's super cool, I might send her my old ROY's for Christmas. 

15 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

@chicote there is a mushroom in the Amazon called ophiovordyceps unilateralis (Dave would be easier to spell) which can infect ants and control their behaviour remotely like Big Track, during the incubation period they go back to the nest, if ants sense another ant is ill they’ll eject them but not in this case.. once the fungus has taken control of the ants behaviour.. it leaves the nest like a zombie and searches for a climate with perfect humidity for fungal growth, it climbs to a vantage point of exactly 10” from the ground, secures it’s jaws into a leaf on the north face of a plant and waits for its death.. at which point the mushroom sprouts out of the ant and the cycle continues.. it’s how they colonies different areas.. what’s remarkable is the fungus doesn’t affect the ants brain only their muscles so the ant is an unwilling zombie controlled remotely by a puppeteer.

Stuff viruses its gonna be the mushroom spores that shakes us off the earth. (the girl with all the gifts.)

I read way too many dystopian future books

But I haven't started prepping, live at the top of a hill, haven't installed zombie stopping spikes, basement not full of food or water, torch has no battery, vege garden is not planted for the season. But I do have clothes and art. Oh and a cat called SPUD (better than a pug) and giant carnivorous snails.

This thread is good for my procrastinations.

20 minutes ago, shredwin_206 said:

@tg76 Kia Ora!

Tena koe

On 10/20/2023 at 12:41 AM, Double 0 Soul said:

I think the Australians would blow us out the water Edwin.. high end nut butter is a national pastime over there.. 

same next door here in Nz , everything butter is my go to. Don’t recommend the other concoction though, that’s an unwanted gifted from someone that figured I love coffee so I’d like this. 
but best peanut butter I ever had was from a hippie shop in Brixton that made their own, also made glutard bread so it was my one stop food shop for the minute I lived there. 

Found the jeans I was looking for and these which I thought I sent to CMF years ago when I left Auckland 

All good. I met my perfectly imperfect match and we've been together almost 12 years now.

We were set up on a blind date a few weeks after the beach date..

he askes me what my hobbies are, 'taking photos of jeans and posting them on the internet'... are they special jeans? kind of yeah...told him about the dd+1 evisu tour jeans and the Roy comp was about to start. 

only a short date as he needed to go put on his lycra and ride his bike with his friends, (his bike collection seriously out does my jeans collection)

when I took the photos of the hat he laughed and said are you posting on the internet again.

Yeah, the current teenagers, conversations I overhear at work horrify me (I teach at a large girls high school*) and ex students that are in their mid 20's tell me their dating stories and laugh and cry at the same time. my step daughter wont talk to us about her BF which is triggering her dad, I'm equal parts she's a grown up she doesn't have to and a bit concerned that she's naive and will do something stupid.

We are building a 'shed' that will be half workshop half glasshouse this year so my tomatoes can be all year round. My kale, spinach and lettuce look like they are on 'roids at the moment as we've had a couple of tropical rainstorms over the last couple of weeks... now we just need to remember to eat the stuff.

Today I'm going to dig out a pair of made in NZ jeans from the 90's cause the company is rebooting and want images of their original jeans #procrastinating

*a school with a big roll for female students not a school for plus size females

came for the jeans, stayed for the trash

Nah, hassling people for stuff they cant change, you know, race, height, age makes you a bit of an egg aye

been a while since I lost time lurking the sufu, this thread makes it seem like a nice place these days

On 1/28/2022 at 1:17 AM, Thanks_M8 said:

^ exactly! Dying would probably happen before the extrusion of the sludge afaik, since it's harder to dye artificial and semi artificial fibers, since they don't soak up color as well.

the feel is probably similar to tencel and so in, soft and a bit silky maybe. but am no expert on this field.

you could look up the tencel process to find out the solvents used many of the processes are quite similar afaik.

late to this conversation

There is some cool science going on with sustainable textile reuse, I encourage my students to take Science if they are serious about going on to study Textiles or Fashion at Uni. I was at a sustainable fashion thing a couple of years ago and one of the scientists was working with E.coli to strip colour from polyesters to turn it back into a neutral colour.

When I'm teaching and talking about spider goats and bulletproof fabric my students usually roll their eyes and ask what dystopian fiction I'm reading.

And someone mentioned cashing in rep points? yes please. Need money for BYBORRE miffy collection.

Yeah, I’m pretty introverted and aspie so find meeting new people awkward anyway. In the past had just met people as part of social life.

she is a lucky cat. They were going to put her to sleep as she had too many issues, but I was like nah I can deal with them. She has anxiety, allergic to red meat and a dodgy hip. She’s now 18, goes to the vet for arthritis meds every month and on thyroid meds. She also has great taste in music.

tomatoes and spinach from me garden

yes... I'm spending today listening to records with the cat and tidying the cats toilet (huge garden)

the happily ever after will be around somewhere, hopefully making endless cups of tea (I transitioned him from Levis to APC to Andewhalls)

the beach was nice, went for a swim, made awkward we have nothing in common conversation

a few weeks later I got set up on a blind date and we lived happily ever after

dating is awkward I never want to do it again

Wearing ancient cut off Levi’s finding stuff to do at home on a sticky hot day while feeling post vaccination crappy… first made a new cover for the cat bed then made a hat out of the legs of my old Yamane's (cut them off to go on a date at the beach and I didn’t own beach clothes) 

Evolution of jeans a bit… my hat has the start of some honeycomb fades. Used the reverse for the under brim to show the selvedge.

Yamane's have been worn and washed lots over the 12 years since I hacked them in half, would have been worn more if they were still long as I don't wear shorts in public much.
The rest of day sitting outside reading and drinking peppermint tea