A few thoughts I've been thinking

I skipped out on an event today for no particularly good reason- I could have planned better, left earlier, started laundry earlier, woken up earlier, decided it was important and made way for it.

But I didn't. And I'm kind of glad. I needed this sort of afternoon to myself- I have been in and out of the house so much lately, only here to sleep, and I missed my little spot of home! It's small. But plenty big enough for me and my things, if I ever put away the last piles of junk near the bed. And it's dark. But my handy electrician boyfriend said he would look at my lamps (both of my standing lamps stopped working after the move, and I destroyed my desk lamp, too). In the meantime, I do have overhead lights in the kitchen, by the front door, and over the kitchen table. You would think that would be enough, but this is a surprisingly difficult-to-light apartment!

The reason I ended up getting home too late to go into the city? I was shopping for fabric. I'm not certain if I will keep this fabric all the way until September, for my quilting retreat. It is seriously adorable, manly and nautical, and hopefully it will turn into a lovely lap blanket for the boy. G Street is having a sale starting Thursday (wish they'd mentioned it BEFORE cutting 4 of the 6 fabrics), so I will probably go back to get the fabric for my first large quilt then. It will be a lot cheaper with the discounts, and then I can wash and put all that fabric away for the retreat- I suspect cutting out and piecing a queen-size quilt will take up most of that!

They say to bring your own sewing machine, but don't mention if you should bring an ironing board and an iron. I guess that we can all share. As for the sewing machine, my mom and I are both scoping out old reliable Featherweight Singers on eBay. Because obviously, what we really need? More sewing machines... I will probably just give in and bring my Athena, to save money, but it sure is heavy.

Still no knitting news. I haven't worked on the lace shawl in a week, and I've only knit a few more rows of the socks. I haven't touched Autumn Rose, nor any of the other bazillion projects. I'm hoping to get some knitting done at Jamie's tonight while he raids. In between bouts of Wii games, of course.