As I was working on today's craft thing, I realized that, by way of a general approach to life, I am not totally awesome at paying attention to arbitrary recommendations about how much time I ought to be spending on things. Take, for example, thingaday. Now, I have spent way more than 20 minutes on stuff basically every day. Today was especially awesome, with my efforts clocking in at about 3.5 hours worth of crafting. Likewise with exercise--recommendations from doctors usually end up in the 30-60 minutes per day neighborhood. I train for marathons, which means hours and hours of running at a stretch, plus I lift weights three times a week. I work well over my allotted 40 hours per week. I don't come even close to getting 8 hours of sleep a night.
But here's the thing: I feel great. I make my deadlines, I don't feel unusually stressed out or tired, and I like it that I have intuitively grasped the concept that the rules people make up for how we should all comport ourselves need not prevent me from enjoying myself.
Anyway!
Today I took a $2 XXL t-shirt and turned it into a little dress by following
this tutorial. I haven't yet put on the straps because, after 3.5 hours, I was done working on it for the day.
Interesting things to note:
- sewing stretchy cotton fabric is not nearly as difficult as I was led to believe
- there is a lot of thread in the seam that attaches the sleeve of a t-shirt to the torso of that t-shirt
- it is really hard to pin up something for yourself while wearing it when you have no help
Here's what I am thinking: the combination of this turn-t-shirt-into-dress technology and the bleach stencil technology could easily be combined into some kind of super hyper awesomeness.
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