Rainy day activities

Yesterday I just had to face the mountain of ironing that I had been storing up for "a rainy day". 

Yesterday was rainy, and I had nothing left to wear that didn’t require ironing. I also thought it would be nice to wear something out to dinner besides my gym clothes.

So there was no sewing but there was lots of time in the sewing room looking at the stack of fabrics piled up near the ironing board, thinking about what I would be doing next, taking brief breaks from the ironing board to look at patterns, and so forth and so on…you know the drill right? 

I don’t usually let the ironing pile up this much, but life has not been normal of late.  I know some people don’t iron their clothes, and although I can admit it would be more environmentally conscious not to iron, I can’t bring myself to do it.  I don’t iron my slips anymore, or my gym clothes so I think I am working my way into a more laid-back lifestyle, but very slowly.  I still iron most everything else, including my jeans.  G irons his own shirts.

I defend myself briefly by saving the ironing up until I have a pile, I don’t iron the clothes for each day in the morning before getting dressed like some people I know.  Mostly this is because it is wasteful of time (I would rather sleep in a few minutes more) and energy.  The most energy is used during that initial time when the iron is warming up, and it seems a waste to warm up the iron and then use it only a few minutes.  I usually don’t heat it up unless it will be on at leat an hour.  I think that is part of why I have never been good at sewing in 15 minute intervals.  I can’t sew much before I need to press and I refuse to heat up the iron unless I will be there for a while.

Anyway, the circuits were configured in this room so I could use the iron with other equipment and not blow any circuits.  And the new Naomoto iron takes less energy than my old Sussman, and in fact it uses less energy to warm up than the coffee pot uses every morning.  After I blew the kitchen circuit the first few times I had to run around the house, tapping into the different circuits and measuring the actual energy use of various appliances and pieces of equipment in the house.  I am such a nerd that I found this highly entertaining.  I can iron, but I can’t make coffee and toast at the same time, which sometimes requires some interesting choreography in the mornings.  In fact, if I didn’t sew, I would use less energy ironing than I do making coffee over the course of a year. 

But then I do sew, and I am not going to stop.  Nor am I going to stop making coffee, although the espresso machine draws less power than the drip coffee pot for some strange reason. 

So just call me energy hog..

Pink Energy Hog.

I don’t know why it took me 8 months after making this skirt to realize that I could wear it with pink.  Now it is a perfect skirt for a cool spring day, not just a fall and early winter skirt.

Duh.
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