  After handing in my essay I continued to work on The Shirt. The Shirt is a lovely piece of fabric I managed to get the bolt-end of at Lincraft (who have nice mid range fabrics that they charge too highly for)which has printed flowers on a stark white background as well as some white thread embroidery. It is a crisp, stiff white too and while you may be thinking Laura Ashley (erk) it's a little more contemporary than that.
In my quest for all that is not mass produced (and therefore meaningless), I've started applying it to my sewing techniques as well as the clothes I make. Generally when you have a pattern, you pin it to your fabric and then with chalk or a special pen, mark out all the dots (that tell you where other pieces match up), and darts.
In that past I have just stabbed the thin paper away with a pin then rubbed in the chalk, removed the pattern and continued on, but its somewhat inaccurate and (I felt) gave my clothes that 'just learned to sew' look. So instead I followed the French and instead of that I used tailors tacks. It simply means I used doubled thread to mark all these things, but instead of drawing I sewed through all the layers with big loops which I cut when done and separated everything.
I was rewarded with spot on accuracy for all my markings! Hooray! Tell most sewers (bar dressmakers and tailors) you use this method and they will think you are crazy because it takes so much longer. But I've always preferred the long way to the quick and dirty. Anyway upon congratulating myself for this, I discovered I'd run out of another fabric necessary to make the shirt. Another reward - I get to to go fabric shopping tomorrow! Yes, you just got a whole post about sewing.
Go read someone elses blog I am boring atm and loving it. I've eaten two bowls of indomie noodles today, mee goreng and b-something goreng (satay). My mouth is burning beautifully! 
