and now back to our regularly scheduled blogging...

Hi, I'm back. For a little while today at least. I promise lots of pictures, and writing and stuff through the week, but right now, I'm just trying to find myself again. I took a week away from the office, and while it was relaxing of a sort, it also confirmed to me that I don't want to work where I do. Monday night was almost painful to me, thinking about the return to the office on Tuesday.

I didn't go anywhere, but I did take some time for myself - it's been a long time since I have done that. We got through my father-in-law's 80th birthday celebration, I handled a bunch of car repairs, I went on a field trip with my son's class, I did some stuff around the house, I knit, I sewed, I worried about my son who was coughing a great deal (he's fine - just a cold, but colds always seem to manifest themselves with him as a cough - a big, juicy, painful-sounding cough. But the doc checked him out and he's fine).

A week isn't long enough. I think I wanted to do so much, and there wasn't enough time to do it, which could also be a reason why I'm a little depressed. I did some sewing, but not nearly as much as I wanted to do. I also over-estimated my rusty sewing skills - I should have started with the skirts I cut out, but noooooo! I had to go at the silk crepe blouse. Yeah, that was a good idea. It's in a time out right now, on my dressmaker's dummy. I will get back to the skirts. I did sew up a bunch of little knitting project bags, and some dpn holders, and a prototype for a circular storage hanger. (Lucky - yours is coming soon!) Sorry for the crappy picture - I was in a hurry. Also, cream coloured fabric, and cream coloured door - bad mix.

One thing this showed me - I have way too many circular needles. Seriously - do I need 9 4.00mm circs? Obviously, I do, becasue that's how many I have.

I did some knitting - Tubey was kicking me around. I love it, and I want to make it right, so I'm taking the time to make the corrections I need to make. It turns out, that I don't have enough of the Sheepstrings to make the sleeves the length I wanted, so I've ripped back the first one a bit, and will use the yarn on the second one. If I need some length added, I will use the solid Maple Red for a seed stitch cuff. I also started the body, and got through a ball of the Maple Red, put it on a length of ribbon to try on, and decided to rip it out and reduce the number of stitches - it was a bit loose. Now, I'm not one for ripping - I don't like to do it. (Combine that with my lack of swatch knitting, and well, you can see why I don't make fitted garments very often). But for this one, I will happily do it. I love this sweater. I love the colours, the fit and how it is coming together. I also did some sock knitting, and I may have bought some yarn. Come back and see soon!