Cowboy Crafts Corner

[mistertwister]

Who: Okie and you!
What: Quilting, sewing lessons, and being weirdly okay about dying
When: Early January
Where: The buffet

Come one, come all to the Cowboy Crafts Corner! Your host, Okie, has placed a quickly made poster or two around the ship, and has set up shop on a bunch of pushed together buffet tables one quiet evening. Among the supplies to be found are a huge pile of Tommy Bahama shirts, collected in armfulls over the course of several days, a set of square plates borrowed from the diner, a handful of markers, one pair of scissors, two steak knives, and every sewing kit he could find in the general store.

The theme of this day's project will be quilting! There will be stations for stenciling, where participants will use the plates and markers to mark squares in the shirts, cutting, where participants will use one sharp implement or another to cut said squares out of the shirts, and sewing, where the individual squares will be made into other, much bigger squares. Okie will be keeping tabs on the stock of shirts available for disassembly and offering assistance or teaching around the sewing stations.

The main rule is to have fun! Secondary rules include not using the cutting implements on any other participants and telling Number 6 if he asks that Okie really promises to clean up after and return the plates and knives.

Comments

[mistertwister]

"Well, you could do tracin'. We've got a set of square dinner plates and a marker for markin' squares outta the shirts. Or you could sew. I could help you through it if you don't know how. Not sure how well I'll be able to teach without visuals, but these quilts are gonna be shitty anyhow so why not mess up a little?"

He thinks for a second. "If you wanna be a little stupid about it, thought, we've got steak knives if you just wanna cut direct around the plate. But if not that's also cool. Want a cherry soda?" You know he's stocked Cheerwine for this day. So much of it.

[decrypter]

"Yes please, if it's no trouble."

It doesn't take her long to decide on what to do - cutting with a knife still sounds beyond her, but if she learns to sew...it's a skill she's never had before, and the idea is strongly appealing.

"...And I would like to try my hand at sewing, though I'm definitely starting at square one when it comes to that."

[mistertwister]

Okie pops the top off a bottle of cheerwine and sets it down in front of one of the sewing station chairs. "Here's yer station an' yer pop. Once yer all good an' settled I'll try to figure out how to explain this without visuals."

He opens another cheerwine in the meantime and takes a drink from it. "I'm Okie, by the by. Don't know that I know you yet."

[decrypter]

"Only in passing, but never officially. Mr. Okie, it's a pleasure. I'm Helena."

Her hand finds the bottle so she can lift it and take a sip, utterly oblivious to how a title might vaporize a man on the spot.

"This is pretty good..."

[mistertwister]

The temperature in the room immediately raises a few degrees immediately after 'Mr. Okie'. At least, that's what his face is currently trying to tell him. "OH, uh, good ta meetcha Miss Helena. I-I can get you another one o' those after yer done with that one if you'd like. Now, uhhh, let's see..."

Okie thinks for a good few seconds before getting an idea and grabbing a square of fabric that he's already sewed a seam into. "Okay! I've got an idea on how to demonstrate. So, I'm gonna have you sew seams onto some squares. I've got one I've already done that with so you can feel the how far from the edge you should make it. Wanna give it a try?"

[decrypter]

"Yes!"

She's excited now - something like that will be easier to align than worrying every time. Taking the square from him, she feels along the seam, considering.

"If I can keep this one by me for now as a sort of template, I think I'll be able to make decent progress. Though I might be a bit slower, just to make sure things are on the right track."