{"id":22448,"date":"2013-03-20T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18852"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:34:51","slug":"200w-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/200w-short\/","title":{"rendered":"200W Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18423\">pick up the correct solenoid in Port Lavaca<\/a>, I caught the back of my short denim skirt on something in B &amp; S&#8217;s truck that ripped a gash up a good part of the back of it. I was irked as skirts are growing harder and harder to find unless you shop at pricey online boutiques. This one was the exact length and heft that I needed for it to be wearable both in the summer with sandals and in colder weather with tights.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not much of a seamstress, so I decided to try to repair the skirt using some iron-on fusible webbing and then finish off the repair with a few discrete hand stitches.<\/p>\n<p>The few times that I&#8217;ve had access to 120V power lately, I just haven&#8217;t thought about the skirt. It was cool enough on the beach to be comfortable in my longer skirts. But it&#8217;s hot here and I miss having the shorter one. This afternoon, I decided to attempt a repair.<\/p>\n<p>There was just one teensy problem: my iron draws 1,200W, 200W more than my inverter can handle. Gaaaaaaaaaaah.<\/p>\n<p>There was my poor skirt, all trussed up and dampened (okay, soddened) and ready to go:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP6008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18853\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP6008-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP6008\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never one to give up in front of a challenge, I remembered that for most of the history of ironing, women used heavy cast iron irons.<\/p>\n<p>So I fired up the stove and a couple of minutes later, well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP6009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18854\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP6009-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP6009\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It worked! The repair feels very good, but I will add a few stitches to make sure the ends are solid.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true, necessity is the mother of all invention! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to pick up the correct solenoid in Port Lavaca, I caught the back of my short denim skirt on something in B &amp; S&#8217;s truck that ripped a gash up a good part of the back of it. I was irked as skirts are growing harder and harder to find unless you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,635,5,1039,3,16,1417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa","category-von-ormy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}