Not recommended.

[rivka]

I singed the hem of my sweater while making tea this morning.

As best as I can figure out, it slipped under the teakettle and into the flame while I was stretched up trying to extract a teabag from a box in the cabinet over the stove.

Fortunately, it didn't actually catch fire - it just browned, and smelled horrible. But it made for a pretty troubling mental image. (Sweater in flames! Burned baby! I've never used a fire extinguisher!)

This is why British folks use electric kettles, isn't it?

Comments

[saoba.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Not so much with the singing of Rivkas, thankyou. I would have been totally freaked out, had it been me, and unable to type for days.

I mananged to get to about where you are in my first pregnanacy when I started closing the hem of my jackets in doors. My grandmother finally said, gently, "Back up, lamb, you're taking up more space than you're used to."

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Not so much with the singing of Rivkas

She actually sounds like she'd have quite a nice voice!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

It never occurred to me that it might be pregnancy-related. But now that you say that, yeah, in fact the hem of that sweater doesn't exactly hang where it used to.