Ra Kenworth

Jay, you did a fantastic job!
This adjustment can also be done successfully by doubling up the material around the elbows(thereby shortening the sleeves): undo the side seam a bit and do the easement there if necessary, then it's like elbow patches. If there is lining you can remove some in the inner elbow.
Ditto for pants
Since arms and legs can be tapered, sometimes this won't work, but the less tapering the easier.

Nancy Reading wrote:
I think the seams won't last long though, the fabric at the folds is wearing badly.

A comfortable pair of trousers often become more loved, the more worn they become. When they are ready to repair again, you could use some complimentary fabric, and sew in a complete inseam piece like these jodhpurs. On the inside you could add a patch that's diamond shape to eliminate the thick seams that meet at the crotch if you like as well. I've done this to trousers I've had that I went cycling in! A diamond inside and out to sandwich the crotch area with a little more give and a lot more comfort!

I also buy from the thrift store, and once in a while through personal ads.so I sew a lot, have a machine, do lots of zippers, have grommet and snap kits, leather needles, heavy duty thread, use dental floss too, even bought a 70s sectional leather couch that needed minor repairs, 12 years ago for 200 $cad.

I get a dopamine rush from stacking functions and zero waste 😂

My last trip to Nunavut I brought an ankle length fleece $1 hoodie with buttoned opening and used my snap kit to snap it to a like new 90 $cad navy XL men's full length (well ankle length for my 165lb 5'3" ) down coat and it was sufficient for the winter. I left the xl coat for a housemate -- there are always people who need winter clothing when there is a storm -- and brought back my unusual $1 ankle length hoodie which I wear a lot.

So I found another navy men's down coat, for $1, this one much thicker down, missing the hood, and the zipper is heavy duty but finicky at the bottom.

No matter, I have started working on an extra huge amauti hood like all the good custom arctic coats have (big enough for a toddler) which gets laced to the collar of the coat with grommets, using my bright neon Paracord, and a side front horn style button closure, accented with Paracord, leaving the zipper in place. It's going to get under -30C (-25F) over the next few days and I will have plenty of time to finish it then.The Paracord will make it easy to spot in a crowd of coats

I try to upgrade during repairs: patch knees and add a side zipper and snap pocket going all the way around for holding hand warmers, a thigh repair with painter pant pockets and extra give in the knees, a rear seam rip gets extra give for bending, and a hood becomes a baby carrier/groceries, and enough room in the lining for all your extra scarves, skidoo masks, gloves, phone etc. Also, enough room in that hood for many multiple layers of head gear! Even a skiddoo helmet 😂

Upgrading during repairs turns tedium into a craft project.

Jackie, with a working temperature range of -10-60C (14F-140) and storage range above 0 (32F)  I would expect it to die quickly from abuse in my climate. It's a big reason I am holding out for alternative battery technologies.

Eric, a lot of considerations for EV. I guess it depends on someone's situation.
I have a mechanic friend of my son's generation who criticizes that the Tesla cars having problems, you can't even open the door to pop the hood. That kinda scared me off even learning more about them!

Edward you've given me a lot of food for thought, especially compression technology, thank you!

Some wonderful ideas here!

I used to save all the colored newspaper comics throughout the year and use them for wrapping paper -- alas no more.  

I spent about $40 on a 2lb bag of sundried mango slices for my son, and we snacked on them while watching a paid movie online, plus we went to see Avatar 3, since we have always watched them together and he was down from Nunavut for Christmas!

I also ordered him a used hardback copy of Chilton small engine repair 1983, for his birthday (comes right after Xmas) because he intends to learn boat motor repair. He can have it when he comes back in late February and he is really looking forward to seeing it.

That's all, plus I made a huge bread pudding with 2 dozen eggs, for myself and some hungry temporary neighbors staying indoors over the winter! (Quebec)

Hello Stephen from Quebec Canada! I stumbled across your creative post and I would be a stinging nettle!

I tend to stay away from people, am frost resistant, keep showing up at the same place, and if necessary, I can be prickly! 😂

I hope you are having a good time at the vortex. Up here, it just keeps snowing. I think I will be getting another 12' year, and no that's not in iqaluit but down in Quebec at 1000' ish

I wish you happy hunting and just dropping my hello, um not looking myself, like I said stumbled over your sunchokes, while Google searching permies on sunchoke threads (my nettles are doing great but my sunchokes which are flowering are not tubering and yes I know they need to experience some drought to beef up. Perhaps even with the dry spells it's too wet!

Tricia Blackburn wrote:
I put my email and cell on a couple and then started feeling like I shouldn't have done that 😕 is it easy to delete those messages 🫣 I'm new here

Hi Tricia welcome to Permies!
Yes if you get to it pronto, you should be able to select the ...
Click edit
so you don't need to delete your post entirely

If you click on someone's name you should find a selection to send them a PM and some of us have our location and growing zone info there as welk