Ramblings, rumblings, grumblings, and rambling grumbly rumblings.

 I've been making tights for about ten years. I've made just about every conceivable color combination of the rather limited selection of colors we used to offer. Now that we've got thirty-one flavors, it's opened the field wide.

Please note, we do not judge the choices our customers make: a few of our customers are gay and like to flaunt it, a couple of them play foppish characters, some are into fetish-wear, some have no taste whatsoever beyond, "Can you match dirt?" Most are just working an outfit and want to look good. Everyone has a story and some are more interesting than others.

I have to wonder just how interesting tonight's story would be. I have never made a combination like the one I did tonight. I couldn't help thinking, "It's a like a box of Peeps with a codpiece..."

Ladies and gentlemen, madames et monsieurs, dammen und herren, I now present to you the Pink and Yellow tights. ( Wear shades if you have them... )

I surprised myself a little last night. For the first time in about a year, I sat down to make a pair of tights.  Well, actually, four pairs of tights, but I was only concerned with finishing one. I'll do the other three tonight.

Except for being a lot slower - the big serger is in storage downstairs so I'm on a small, domestic Juki - the tights went together just the way they used to. Like riding a bike, to put more wear on a threadbare old analogy. Once I got back into the groove of it, it was kind of fun, like revisiting an old haunt and finding it more or less the way you remembered it.

I've reopened the Seamlyne website to new tights orders. My motivation is two-fold: I've got fabric to clean out of the basement, and we could use the extra money just now. My selection of colors is limited, but that's really the only limitation. My patterns were right where I left them.

Lots of green, lots of brown, a little wine, a little navy. Notty, there's purple in there too that I'm holding back you you :)

I've also got a box of tights that were cut out but never assembled that can go in the off-the-rack section. That ought to be fun tracking down the pieces that are missing.

I've also put the design site back online, hoping to generate some traffic there. As I've read back over it, I've found some items I'd like to change - most notably in the footwear section - and probably will over time. For the time being, it's just good to see it again.

So, spread the word, my friends. I'd appreciate all the publicity I can get.