I just know I can figure this out

I have been busy, madly sewing yards and yards of fabric, so I haven’t written. Plus, I didn’t want to write until I had the thing finished, so I could say, “Voila, just three days later I have the perfect duvet cover!”

That smarmy attitude has come back to bite me. I actually have pretty much kinda finished the duvet cover. There’s just the matter of the closure to deal with, whether I want ties (recommended for beginners), or Velcro dots (bet it won’t hold) or buttons (the most European look, I am told) or a zipper (I haven’t put one in since I accidentally inserted one where the skirt hem should have been).


But there is something else. And that is, it doesn’t fit the *&^%* bed!!!!! Oh it fits the king-size comforter from the Marriott just fine, like a giant pillowcase. (And we’ll not talk about how difficult it is, in fact, to basically crawl into a huge pillowcase with a comforter in your mouth and drag it inside for four yards and get it to stick while you back on out.) But when I put the duvet-clad comforter on the bed, it doesn’t cover the sides. So okay, you’re thinking, I put it on the wrong way. Just turn it clockwise a quarter turn. (And didn’t you try this before you started sewing?)



But I don’t want it to GO that way. The two vertical stripes should go lengthwise down the bed. Now they go across and I can’t cope with that. Oh where did I go wrong? I will just pretend for now that everything is just fine and everything I hoped for.

Everyday Math Lesson: If Adam has one retainer and puts it in his back pocket and throws himself into a couch, how much money has Adam spent? Show your work.

Pea brain + retainer + couch = $175 + 2(trip to orthodontist)

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