Last night we had a half way power outage. (Quite possibly a squirrel in the transformer. Good eatin'.) Our lamps were dimmed. The power backup things (UPS and I can't remember what it stands for--Unifiedl P-funk Superfire?) To keep our machinery from sizzling out of usefulness (which has heppened in the past) BrilliantEditor went downstairs to turn off all the computer action. I was internetting it up when all of a sudden, *blip*, no more internetting for me.
Speaking of internetting, there's a word in the sewing world: interlining. Clothes have the "fashion fabric" and then the lining. Fancy schmancy clothes have a lining between the lining and the fabric. Thus, interlining.
If a person (like me) were to use the word "netting" a bit more liberally, then many of the preferred interlinings could be made of netting. This would thus allow a devotee of the needle arts (like me) to create our own internet any time we started a new schmancy project.
If a seamstress were to make wedding dresses, the bride could do background checks on her guests at the reception. She could blog during the ceremony. She could manage her newgroups and order champagne for the honeymoon.
Although not directly related, the following does relate to one of my fabric dreams. (I have them. How screwed up is that?) To go along with the wedding dress, our bride would have a beautiful veil.
I want fabric with fiber optics woven in. I want to have some kind of battery power thing or preferably a body-head powered light system to create a net of gently sparkling lights. The sparkling fabric would be miraculously not pointy so breakage would not be a problem.
How fab would it be to have real light-up clothes? Halloween costumes, wedding dresses, costumes, athletic clothes (to avoid being hit by scary cars).
*blip* our power went out. But the internet is so very in.
Posted by dotty at December 14, 2004 08:04 PM