New word of the month and printer troubles.

  I pulled out a new word of the month from my jar on Tuesday night. It's "Beach". I'm stretching that a tiny bit and making a sundress that might not be particularly beachy, but I've wanted to make it since I was eight years old. It's never been made because the entire design revolved around the fabric print that eight year old me wanted for this dress. A fabric print that doesn't exist. Luckily thirty eight year old me has a printer and printable fabric sheets! So I figured I could make the print myself! So, I dug out an old paper doll copy of the dress (I have no idea when I made it, but certainly not when I was eight!) and made up the printed pattern on photoshop.

  And then I remembered that my printer isn't working. Hasn't been working in over a month. It's copying but not printing or scanning and I haven't had the time to take a proper look to see what was wrong. My first thought when I finished making the pattern was to leave it and work the printer out later, but then I remembered that I had forms I needed to print out for the Giant Baby's  speech therapist and ear specialist, so I decided to take a look right away. (Or else I would forget about it completely.) And it turns out I'm an idiot.

  You see, about six weeks ago there was a box of Lego minifigures on top of the printer. And a certain little boy wanted very much to have a look at them, but he wasn't quite tall enough to reach, and he knocked the box of Lego down behind the printer. Then when I moved the printer to rescue the Lego, I unplugged it from my computer! I've been imagining some kind of enormous problem to do with software updates and an outdated printer. No. It just wasn't plugged in!

  At least I finally got to play with my printable silk, which worked quite well. There was a hiccup, though. I'd drawn up the print, assuming the printable fabric would be A4 in the international standard paper sizes and it turned out not to be. But at 8.5" by 11" it's close and the difference isn't really big enough to matter that much. I'm still waiting for the ink to dry (don't know how long I should wait but it says on the instructions to wait) so I haven't pulled the paper backing off yet, which means I'm not sure how thick the fabric is yet but that's ok, I plan on lining it with white cotton anyway.