I started a sewing project, also not bloggable. I think that's going to be the trend until the wedding. Does it count as starting it if all I did was trace the pattern pieces onto newsprint and cut them out? Again, I was home sick, but too sick for anything particularly brain heavy. Tracing and cutting was fine, but I fear I was in no mood for cutting out fabric. The pattern is looking fairly simple, however- I'm wondering if it wouldn't be wise to rotary cut most of the pieces, as well. That would probably ensure the most perfect pieces, but would defeat most of my effort at copying them yesterday. Is it more important to have a better finished product, or to kick it old-school with my hand scissors? I suppose I'll decide based on whether I can find my rotary cutter and mat or not. They're in the craft room.
Aaaaah, the craft room. My little hidey-hole of fantasticness. Except right now it isn't. My wedding gown is sprawled all over the sofa, because there's no more room for it in the guest room closet now we have a long-term house guest. Happy to have the house guest, of course! But I'll be even happier when I drop the dress off at the alterations lady's home next Wednesday- hurray for getting it out of my hair.
In addition to the wedding gown, which is frankly enormous, there's also a drying rack full of sweaty gym clothes (again, an item that used to be relegated to the guest room that has been relocated for the time being). And then there's the tub of cross stitch items that I pulled out when I was thinking about cross-stitching the table numbers to look just like these on Snippet and Ink. I still am contemplating it, but in the meantime maybe I should put the bin away?
And I really want to work on my Storm at Sea quilt, because I am not going to be able to attend the quilt retreat this year, so I have to make my own quilting time. But I can't work on it because in the move from my apartment to the house, I apparently split the quilt in progress into at least three different places- and I can't find all the pieces!!
I apparently need to tidy up the craft room and reclaim my space, while I have it. If I don't keep it tidy, my machines and I might get relegated to the attic. It's finished, yes... but I need a/c in this nearly-August DC heat! As soon as the gown is gone in a week, I'm reclaiming my space and getting it into useable shape. In the meantime, I can knit like the wind on the sofa downstairs and crank out this first nonbloggable knitted item in order to start on number two.
I like bloggable craft blogging much better than this text stuff above. Here's an artsy fiance-taken photo from the 4th of July, in true knitting Mikaiya-style. Since this shell is for selfish little ole' me, it's bloggable!
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