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I miss you, sewing blog! It is great fun to hear what you've been up to, Margie. The dresses do indeed look fabulous. Post photos of your quilt when you get a chance!

The only thing I didn't record in the last 9 months is that back in January I took a trip to the LYS, using your lingo, and found some very happy yellow, green, and pink yarn. I started crocheting it into granny squares (for an hour or so), with the idea that it could become a baby blanket or a scarf. The baby blanket idea lost momentum because the person I had in mind turned out to be... not deserving, shall we say. And then the idea lost momentum in general because the yarn is VERY small, and so crocheting for ever left me with a square of about 2 inches. However, it's a very good traveling project, and I have some plane flights in my near future, so I should pick it up again. I also need to return to my quilt; fortunately, football season is upon us!

The other thing I can report is that the quilt of squares (based on the pattern-a-day book) totally stalled out when Evil Twin and I discovered that we really don't know any fancy knitting stitches and the internet was not helpful in teaching us. Perhaps another trip to the LYS is in our future at some point?

Catherine

Woven bracelets

Another draft that was never posted...
I think Christmas of 2011.

Well...

During Christmas break, I didn't do any knitting, but I "helped" the girls with some woven bracelets they had gotten a while back. Not sure just how long I spent on it, but it was at least three hours. Nice, mindless work. And the girls love the results.

I'll have to get pictures shortly.

3 hours for me! (are we doing this again?)

Margie

What, Again?

This is from sometime in early June of 2010.  It's been sitting in the drafts, not sure what date it will be published under!


So I squandered my opportunity to put in some serious stitching time Friday. Smallest was having a playdate with a friend after school, so I didn't have to go pick her up. Instead, I dorked around on the computer and did other random non-productive things. Oh well.

The book club I'm part of met last night. Our book was, "Always Looking Up", the latest Michael J. Fox book that spans the 10 years since "Lucky Man." I had great fun explaining the section on politics, which talks about embryonic stem (ES) cells and George Bush's policy on research with ES cells. We're all going out to dinner on Tuesday, which happens to be my 40th birthday.

After all the events of the day, those mentioned above and those left out, I did manage to get in an hour of stitching before a late bedtime. I'm working on Santa's sleeve, which has a swirly pattern like the one I messed up on the body and had to redo. Of course, it's much smaller, but it was still annoying to complete a part of it and realize I had messed it up. Sigh. More unsewing ensued. The resewing was successful.

Off to pick up Darling at the airport soon. This is the first of his last two trips to Calgary.

Margie

Summer dresses

 

So...here we have Smallest, who is now 8, and Middle, now 11, modeling the lovely dresses I finally finished.  It had been a while since I cut the fabric.  They've worn them to church several times and have received many compliments on how lovely they both look, so that's nice.
 Of course, I think they look lovely all the time, but that's just me.  I will say that the dresses fit nicely, which helps the girls to look extra lovely.

Middle started middle school this fall, Smallest is in 3rd grade (that's Grade 3 in Canadian) and The Boy has entered the world of high school.  It has been quite the adventure for all of us.  The big kids both ride the school bus to school.  Middle gets picked up at 7, so we drive her to the bus stop.  The Boy gets picked up at Smallest's school at about 7:40, which is the same time that Smallest needs to be there too.  Currently I am torturing The Boy and we're all walking to school together (with the dog), we  (I) say goodbye to Smallest where she heads inside, then I walk around to the bus stop with The Boy and pretend I don't know him as he gathers with his friends.  Usually he walks about 5-10 steps behind me, which I find amusing.

I have several new unfinished projects to work on.  Perhaps this weekend will be better than last at accomplishing something projecty.  I have two flannel blankets that I'm working on for a friend's baby, and there's the quilt to finish up.  I'm not entirely happy with the quilt.  I think it will unravel at some of the seams, and that's not cool.  I bought flannel for the quilt batting, and it is not 44" across.  When did they start making fabric that's 42 and 43 inches wide?  That is not right.  Anyhow, I have to sort that out and then finish it and decide its fate.

I am itching to knit something.  I have many knitting projects waiting to work on.  I still need to finish assembly of the white baby sweater, and I've been working on a little blanket for Smallest's dolls.  I don't know why that thing is taking so long.  I think I don't like the aluminum needles with the linen-y yarn.  It's all too slippery.  I'm close to finishing though, probably just another inch or two.  Then I can start on all those other things!  There are scarfs, animals and another scarf to work on.  And I've been looking around at Ravelry and saw some cute things.  Dangerous place, Ravelry.

It looks like Catherine is MIA on the blog, so I will claim perpetual victory until she returns.

I've put in several hours on the various projects, but as I haven't really kept track lately, I'm not going to estimate.  I don't think I have any competition anyhow.  My finished projects will be my only reward...sniff, sniff.

Margie