Me: Honey, how does this look?
Him: Hm. It looks fine.
Me: *narrowed eyes* Fine?
Him: No, no, what I mean is, it's nice. Really nice. Except, well....never mind. It's lovely.
Me: *deep sigh* So what does it need?
Him: Well, if you did this and that and the other thing altogether, it would be so much better, don't you see?
And then I go do another afternoon's worth of handsewing. Rinse and repeat. The trouble is, he's always right. He's got a better eye for things like balance in design.
This is possibly not the olive green wool kirtle I perhaps mentioned in the last post as THE PLAN. And I always stick to the plan. As evidenced as all the other times that I stuck to the plan.
Oh, and new rule. In addition to the "no machine stitching showing" rule, I now have "the insides have to be finished too." So we've got french seams and flat-felled seams and hand-stitched linings. And you know what? That rule's actually making me pretty happy.
