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I've been had. This is my second Club "with real bits" and I've yet to experience a single real bit. Wtf, #ireland?

Anyway, it kinda tastes like a halfway point between orange Fanta and orange Crush. Half decent. Not nearly as good as Rani Float, though, which features real bits in abundance.

gordoooo_z Nov 25

I can't remember the last time less than $25 after tax (Cdn$, fyi) delivered so completely. Hey Noodles is my new favourite place in this entire suburban hellscape (terms of endearment).

Imagine how good this would look if it weren't being photographed on a phone from 2018 under the bluest possible 6000k recessed lighting.

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gordoooo_z Nov 2

For the curious, or the vintage sewing machine aficionados (some of whom might scoff at this particular model, but I know others are fond of them), it's a Singer Golden Touch and Sew 620. I'm quite taken with the thing, but then I'm easily taken with anything once I take it apart and nurse it back to running order (it was probably already there, it just needed to be cleaned oiled and lubed after decades of disuse).

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gordoooo_z Nov 2

Alright, went to Fabricland in the morning and got some iron on interface material, and then proceeded to completely fail at threading my machine and winding a bobbin. Guess the first time was beginners luck (or a full night of sleep, lol). Got frustrated and came back an hour or two later to try again and things went far better. Definitely just had something out of place around the tension discs the first time around.

First draft turned out a little wonky, but not bad at all for a first draft. Was still figuring out the presser foot pressure so one side got kinda splayed out a bit and I ended up with a bit of a rhombus, but I'm not mad at that for a trial run.

This isn't the wallet itself mind you. It's wide as hell on purpose cause it includes multiple sema allowances that come into play over the rest of the pattern. I don't love that the cars are super spaced out and there are only 3 slots, but baby steps. I'll do the math to get a fourth card slot in the same height eventually, and this is going to be a bifold wallet so it'll be 8 slots in the end. At least that's my current plan.

Anyway, not good, but literally my first attempt at sewing anything ever, so I'm pretty pleased with myself.

Obviously I've got to practice straight lines, and figure out the presser foot pressure, but yeah... that's what we call learning, lol.

#sewing #diy #vintagesewingmacine #touchandsew

gordoooo_z Nov 2

What a stupid way to package fabric. Now I have to pearn how to iron AND how to sew!? (Okay I've ironed once or thrice before lol, but still, very stupid way to sell a square of fabric).

#sewing #sewingmachinebasics #ihavenoideawhatiamdoing

gordoooo_z Oct 24

So uhh... I got a printer.

gordoooo_z Oct 23

I want to make a shirt with the Alphaghetti logo but instead of Alphagetti, it says "Heinz Zuppa Inglese" so that maybe, just maybe, one other weirdo with a knowledge of Italian deserts and the palate of a North American 12 year old can laugh at the thought I just had while opening my can of Alphaghetti lmao.

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gordoooo_z Oct 17

Oh also I just went back for this. I know, I'm a sick man... but just look at it! 😂

Seriously though, my hand mixer finally gave up the ghost, and the little plastic (at least that's what it feels and sounds like) gears inside have been grinding for years the moment a bowl of separated dry and wet ingredients would start to become a moderately thick batter. This thing weighs about double what that did. Not that it's heavy, but it feels like a thing that was built to do what it said on the tin, and do it for longer than just 5-10 years.

As my grandpa used to say (which I've since stolen and taken to repeating as often as possible): don't take any wooden nickels!

gordoooo_z Oct 17

Ngl, I bought this primarily for aesthetic reasons, but also because brewing for 3 with a pourover quickly loses its charm, lol. But I gotta say, it's a surprisingly pleasant morning coffee routine compared to any number of generic drippers I've used before. Just kinda frictionless, if you know what I mean.

And I mean, just look at it. It is so ridiculously of its time and I'm just completely tickled by it 😅. Makes a nice cup too, which can't be taken for granted these days lol.

gordoooo_z Oct 7

Bit of a weird one here. You all know me as a computer toucher, but apparently I am know a sewing machine toucher. Anyway, this is nonna's old Singer Touch & Sew, in fighting form.

Woo! I went from knowing nothing about sewing machines or if mine even worked, to fully oiled and lubricated, and seemingly functional (as far as I could tell at least), and I just let the manual guide me on threading the thing and winding a bobbin, and doing my first successful test stitches!

I heard mixed talk about the Singer Touch & Sew line while doing my initial reading, with people complaining about the oddball plastic bobbins, and plastic gears that promise to fail at any moment, while others love the things and insist that neither are problems to be concerned about. Turns out the early 600 series (I have a 620) machines have all metal gears, so I don't even have to think about that one anyway.

And in the case of the oddball bobbins, it turns out they're what make this machine unique. You just pop an empty bobbin in under the bobbin cover, hit the pedal, and it winds the bobbin right then and there. Then you just slide it back, drop the foot and go.

Couldn't be easier, which is kind of wild coming from someone who hasn't even touched a sewing machine since I was maybe 8 or 9, and getting in my mom's way while she tried to make curtains or reupholster our kitchen chairs or whatever, lol.

I'm so pumped and ready to dive in with the blind confidence of a complete beginner who doesn't know enough to know what he doesn't know. 😂

Alls I know is I got some cheap crappy fabric in the kind of pattern you might see on a kufi, and I intend to make it into my next wallet, because my current wallet is made of paper and tape, and is finally just about ready to literally dematerialize 😋

#sewing #sewingmachine #vintagesewingmacine #singer #singersewingmachine #vintagesinger #touchandsew #okayThatsMoreThanEnoughLol