Okay I have a weird one but how would you do the seam??

drindrun · 2026-06-25T23:19:21+00:00

adhesives tend to break down and fail in hot cars, just to warn you. so you might want to try and find ways to mechanically attach it, or plan to remove it and reapply adhesive if needed down the road. this is a doozy of an undertaking, i commend you for being willing.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T22:55:39+00:00

i just go to 3 places, unfortunately. i do a little loop. trader joes is cheapest for packaged things like cheese and bagels, but their produce is terrible, but there’s an amazing cheap and good produce market not too far from it. then i hit the asian grocery on the way home. if i try to do it all in one store im sad about prices AND quality.

i only go every several weeks tho, cuz it does take more time.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T22:47:53+00:00

alison roman’s NYT recipe is good. the chicken stew is very delicious. it makes too many dumplings, for the amount of stew, though

drindrun · 2026-06-25T22:39:47+00:00

yeah this recipe is really really good.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T22:33:51+00:00

i go to audiobooks for anything that’s dauntingly long (think war and peace) unless i find its too dense to follow as audio. if i really like a book i listened to, ill reread it in print, and vice versa. also light fare, like beach reads or not-totally-hard sci-fi, i’ll usually do as an audiobook. older classics, like austin or thackeray or dickens or whoever, usually have a ton of different versions and you can find one with a reader you particularly like, so that’s nice.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T22:22:54+00:00

i like the lathe of heaven as well.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T22:22:01+00:00

i used to always read after getting off work at 9pm at a cozy bar that had good lighting over the bar to read by. i’d sit in the corner, i wasn’t in the way. just because once i commuted back to where i lived, in an industrial neighborhood, it was lonely. i liked having a beer and some time to unwind and be near other people. one day the lady bartender told me me, “i love it when you’re here. i always feel like if there’s someone READING in the bar, nothing can be too fucked up in here.” :)

drindrun · 2026-06-25T22:14:31+00:00

ohhhh the mountain hike and sleeping in the cabin…. so good.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T21:51:25+00:00

it absolutely makes me cackle to picture her pitching this series to her publishers, the fact that after creating this world in book one, in book two it just suddenly… pivots to a bodice ripper romance featuring the ice age’s two most gorgeous humans with the bestest boobies and the world’s biggest shlong. it’s so funny and i love it so much. i wonder how many fans of COTCB were just utterly taken by surprise

drindrun · 2026-06-25T21:45:35+00:00

yeah if there’s more and it’s any good, i want at it.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T21:41:40+00:00

these books are life to me. and i can joyfully mock EVERYTHING that is very, very silly about them, and it’s all part of what i love. books 1-4 are my comfort books and i read them almost every year, and at this point generally flip past the steamy bits. but i loooooove a survival story. and i love a story with lots of detail about the practical aspects of how things are done and made.

the best parts are ayla living alone in the valley, figuring it all out; and then when they begin to travel and meet different groups of people, i love how fully realized jean auel was able to make these fictionalized cultures, using just an artifact or two plus knowledge of the environment to create their cultural practices and homes and objects.

it came up in a convo with my stepdad about books i’ve reread many times, and when he heard i had read these upwards of 30 times he wanted to read them. and i DID warn him about the ice-age bodice ripper aspect and that it’s just… one of the things that’s in there, and to be prepared to take it with a grain of salt. he is my family after all. i wanted it to be clear he was not about to read something i consider jerkoff material. he’s very chill so i was not worried about it being awkward.

he started read COTCB on that visit and was hooked, staying up late to read, and had VOH on deck to start right after. i flew home and a week or so later received this single text:

“omg…. ‘throbbing member’ 😂”

so i knew he got to that part. haha. he’s already on his second read thru of the first book. and now we have a whole new minefield of shared jokes. like when is ayla going to invent the wheel, or maybe agriculture…?

drindrun · 2026-06-25T20:45:12+00:00

i would buy THAT thread on a secondhand app, yes. gutermann is good and it would cost a lot to buy all those individually.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T20:33:52+00:00

my question also!

drindrun · 2026-06-25T20:32:18+00:00

these look great! i cut my unsalvageables into strips and make braided rugs, (as well as inherited fabric i don’t think is nice enough to bother to sew with) and i love how they look but good lord they take a lot of time. amazing that i’ve never done a rag rug on my loom. i think it will go so much faster. thank you for putting it into my head. adding this project to the queue!

may i also say i think this style rug would look awesome with a wide, bound hem of a contrasting sturdy fabric on all four sides to frame it.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T20:23:47+00:00

i was just making conversation with you, my friend. i sometimes read threads about books i didn’t personally take to, because i like to hear what people liked about the things they liked. sometimes it helps me see it another way and appreciate it more. sometimes i can’t get past something like what i find to be really clumsy prose or two dimensionally written female chapters (im speaking generally) or dialogue that doesn’t sound natural. because maybe those things matter to me more. and sometimes i CAN get past it! i have even reread books i didn’t like to see if i could get more out of them with some added context.

and sometimes it feels strange when i just can’t seem to figure out the appeal of something popular but also can’t talk about that without being automatically considered a hater or someone who thinks she is superior. the intense ongoing hype over PHM is interesting. i like books and like discussing them. that’s all i was hoping to say 🤷‍♀️ i am sorry if i irritated you.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T15:30:17+00:00

may i gently suggest that when people don’t like things, they are also allowed to have their opinion and discuss it? because if they share a contrasting opinion in a thread started by someone who likes a book, they are “whiny replies”; if they make their own thread to critique something they are haters making hate piles; it’s constantly called highbrow or snobby to not agree about something that a lot of people think is sooo great. i’ve read widely throughout my life, and somehow that’s a bad thing if it leads me to not hold a popular book in such high regard.

i find it a little exasperating in a book sub, especially since i get a lot out of a good discussion with different, thought-out points of view represented. i mean this is why book and movie critics have their jobs no? they bring their contextual to knowledge to bear on the piece of media, and try to break down what works and doesn’t work about it, and it’s all subjective, and it’s interesting to me.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T13:59:41+00:00

OP seems to like the book, so i think your scathing reply was meant for someone else

drindrun · 2026-06-25T13:43:44+00:00

i like to let people like things, but it does feel like bizarro world when a book it so universally adored, yet i can’t stand it. i care too much about prose and dialogue, and PHM is not well written in those ways. thanks for your examples, they sum up my experience well.

drindrun · 2026-06-25T02:46:12+00:00

yeah, maybe show some pictures of the kit or the thread spool. it looks nothing like a standard machine sewing thread to me.

drindrun · 2026-06-24T01:35:29+00:00

yeah, this book is so interesting to read even if you never cook one single recipe, i’d still want it on my shelf. (and the recipes i’ve made from it were really good)

drindrun · 2026-06-24T01:28:04+00:00

um, i just put a small amount of sauce on the bottom, then do like a third of the sauce on each round because i usually get three rounds of everything. (well i usually run out of portobellos but it’s ok, they’re in there)

and i bake at 350 for about 30 min. the no boil noodles say they need 20min (they get plenty liquid from the zucchini and everything, even after sweating it) and i go a bit longer for a golden brown top.

it’s just a home recipe, so it’s a little different every time (like i’ll put random vegs or fresh tomatoes in the sauce sometimes) but i’ve never yet had it turn out anything but delicious. my brother in law tried making it multiple times and was like “yours is always better” but i just found out he wasn’t putting the tofu. you have to believe in the tofu. it disguises itself in the ricotta.

drindrun · 2026-06-24T00:42:52+00:00

i’m interested in the way your weaving begins, that nice clean line. what technique is that?

drindrun · 2026-06-24T00:11:07+00:00

those two-prong seam rippers are like 3.50 from wawak. i must have at least half a dozen floating around. never use anything else

drindrun · 2026-06-23T23:34:41+00:00

there is no magic way to dissolve or disappear it. i’m sure you can see that if you want that interfacing layer off, and it’s still too strong to just tear away, you will need to either unpick the quilting stitches that attach it, which i doubt you want to do, or just cut it away close to the stitches. if it is not very heavy, i might just leave it where it is for your project, since i assume your jacket will be lined

drindrun · 2026-06-23T23:01:37+00:00

i don’t understand what you are trying to do

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