Green pants (trousers) saga

[cimorene]

Here's another fun ADHD story. I bought a pair of pants that are a lovely jungle green over two years ago from Freddie's of Pinewood (no longer there; they were limited run) (sorta-splurge, because they're "slow fashion" + customs fee from England). They close with a button but not a hook, and I immediately ordered a hook to sew in them, but then I didn't get around to doing that for the last MORE THAN TWO YEARS because I never planned an occasion to wear them. (They aren't dressy occasion pants. They're just cotton twill.) Today I thought to myself, "I might as well sew it in, or I'll never be able to wear them once I decide to."

Then I looked in my sewing kit, my spare needle and thread and button case, the sewing table in the living room, and the little basket full of embroidery tools, which was all the places I could think of where it might be. But no luck. I can't find the hook&bar. I'll have to order another because there's not a sewing shop in town (you can buy mending materials like thread, patches, low quality needles etc including regular hooks and eyes and zippers at supermarkets and the Finnish equivalent of K-Mart, but the larger flat hook and bar that goes on waistbands is apparently less in demand).

I am planning a trip to the big mall with rancid vibes next week, because Wax wants more fun socks and you can't get those locally; but I'm afraid I'm unlikely to find one there either. The last time I ordered from an online shop that would carry them was less than a month ago, because I finally started knitting socks to give to Wax's family next winter! But of course I had no memory of the issue then.

This is obviously not just an ADHD tax, though; it's also hardly having left the house in that time (burnout, depression?) and putting these pants on a pedestal (what a distracting metaphor... pant pedestal) because I'm so jazzed to have found pants in such a great color. And feeling that I don't have any tops that are as good, though I now know what I want to knit to go with them (a striped zigzag or ripple tee something like this, with lavender and green and blue).

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

sounds really fun; good luck!

[haphazardmethod]

That is a great sweater! I’m having trouble imagining jungle green though. Sort of a deep green with blue undertones? That would look nice with a sweater like that.

[cimorene]

Yeah, that's what it usually means, a medium to dark green, fairly saturated, leaning blue to some degree. A bit lighter than forest green and a bit bluer and possibly a bit darker than emerald green, I think, in this case, but they might be less blue than I'm remembering.

[barbaratp]

Uma vez comprei uns botões, fui usar, não achei, comprei outros. Usei e depois encontrei os primeiros. Isso se chama sofrimento de quem sabe usar aviamentos e nunca lembra de onde os guarda.

[cimorene]

I've done this before with buttons and zippers 😭 this time at lest the mistake is less expensive.

[barbaratp]

O mais engraçado aqui é que sou neta de costureira, na minha casa tem de tudo um pouco, mas na da minha avó não tem. O que é deveras irônico. Ao menos quando as coisas aqui somem eu sei que ainda estão aqui, na casa dela se sumir ninguém achará mais.

[cimorene]

It should be possible to find the things that disappear in our house, even if it takes years, but I'm afraid there's just too much of it so it becomes possible for the hiding place to never be discovered.

[barbaratp]

Mais fácil os gatos acharem as coisas perdidas do que a gente mesma quando as procura né

[cimorene]

😂 Imagining our cats hunting for lost objects on command like... service dogs, I guess?

It is easy for them to find things by accident that you weren't looking for, however! And usually destroy them or throw them on the floor.

[barbaratp]

Meu gato acha de tudo principalmente aquilo que eu nem sabia que tinha em casa. Ele também acha muitos bichos escondidos, aqui não existe uma barata que sobreviva a ele. Infelizmente o mesmo acontece com as lagartixas que eu até gosto pois matam aranhas e outros insetos. Mas sim seria legal se eles fossem prestativos em procurar as coisas como os cães, mas como gato tem vontade própria acho que isso nunca acontecerá.