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grnvixenWhat happened to summer? I blinked and missed it. It was the end of July, August stretched ahead, a few more weeks to take it easy but Nooooo: I forgot about med school starting, sigh.
For some reason I decided at the last minute to take a day of vacation the last day of July and boy am I glad I did. The weather was perfect! Enjoyed coffee on the deck, lunch with a friend and some leisurely time to run errands so they weren't all crammed into that saturday. Had a family event on saturday, got back to work monday and everything hit. All of a sudden folks have remembered they have to get some things done for the class that started, oh, that day! Not to mention it was time to start the seminar and student day prep. So work is now pretty much back up to normal speed, and then some.
On the home front I have been continuing to try and get the accumulating stash organized, and have managed to hang onto some of the progress made so far while still putting some new projects in the pipeline. Oh what I could do with a whole week off and nothing else scheduled!
Cutting the rest for length: the projects....... it can never be just one of course: I'm teaching a penny rug ornament class for EGA this month. Deliberately signed up for it as I knew it would get me off my butt and finally working up the patterns I have for the ornaments, and making some 'primitive' ones out of the wool I'm recyling from old thrift-store coats. This meant 'washing' the wool in a bit of brown dye to tone down the modern hues. Actually worked pretty well so now I have a pile of wool to play with. Pattern handouts are done too. Just need to tweak the modern-felt examples and work up some from the recycled wool. Woot!
So naturally in the middle of this I managed to find a great baragin (as in a *steal*) on a really really nice needlework frame on eBay. Here is the original manufacturor: http://www.hearthsidecraftworks.com/ Beautiful wooden frames and one style in particular that is adjustable (enough for my height), fits either side of the recliner and leave room for the cats on the lap. It is perfect for the blackwork coif pattern I have had in development. So now that I have the frame I need to make the final decisions on the design and get the pattern marked up. This meant pulling out the coif research to double check pattern layouts, etc.. Always fun trolling through the notes but not that much time to dawdle around right now.
And then, I'm knitting. Note I have not said I am taking up knitting. As many of you know, if I started knitting my mom would make me knit my own socks. Nope, this was a freebie pattern at Micheals that a friend asked me to pick up copies of for a knitting group at her work. The patterns happened to be right next to some pretty pretty fall colored yarn and the rest is history. I have to admit I was kind of curious if I could do this too. I did some basic knitting probably 30 years ago (A Dr. Who scarf :) ) but this was a bit different. The pattern said it was for beginners soooo, I gave it a try. Took some finagling, and starting the thing about 5 times but I'm over half-way done now, so far so good. I know there are a couple of errors where I didn't get the stitch count right, and they may be more noticeable once it all comes off the needles but I think I will be able to live with them :).
EGA seminar: I'm the chairman for our regional seminar here in KC in 2011. Yeah, didn't say No fast enough. Site is locked in, teacher letters sent out, need to get my committee rounded up now. That means phone and email time, lots of it, to be sure communication is clear. Once all that is in place I'm not to worried, I will be able to delegate, just need to get the ducks in place.
And then, Art called. Sigh. This is a director for local community theater that I have worked with before. He is doing T.S. Eliot's Murder at the Catherdral in November and asked me to coordinate the costumes. I've said No to Art before but, this one I just couldn't. I have gotten smarter in my old age and have already lined up someone I know I work well with to co-coordinate with me soooo, hopefully the load will not be to overwhelming.
That's all for now!
For some reason I decided at the last minute to take a day of vacation the last day of July and boy am I glad I did. The weather was perfect! Enjoyed coffee on the deck, lunch with a friend and some leisurely time to run errands so they weren't all crammed into that saturday. Had a family event on saturday, got back to work monday and everything hit. All of a sudden folks have remembered they have to get some things done for the class that started, oh, that day! Not to mention it was time to start the seminar and student day prep. So work is now pretty much back up to normal speed, and then some.
On the home front I have been continuing to try and get the accumulating stash organized, and have managed to hang onto some of the progress made so far while still putting some new projects in the pipeline. Oh what I could do with a whole week off and nothing else scheduled!
Cutting the rest for length: the projects....... it can never be just one of course: I'm teaching a penny rug ornament class for EGA this month. Deliberately signed up for it as I knew it would get me off my butt and finally working up the patterns I have for the ornaments, and making some 'primitive' ones out of the wool I'm recyling from old thrift-store coats. This meant 'washing' the wool in a bit of brown dye to tone down the modern hues. Actually worked pretty well so now I have a pile of wool to play with. Pattern handouts are done too. Just need to tweak the modern-felt examples and work up some from the recycled wool. Woot!
So naturally in the middle of this I managed to find a great baragin (as in a *steal*) on a really really nice needlework frame on eBay. Here is the original manufacturor: http://www.hearthsidecraftworks.com/ Beautiful wooden frames and one style in particular that is adjustable (enough for my height), fits either side of the recliner and leave room for the cats on the lap. It is perfect for the blackwork coif pattern I have had in development. So now that I have the frame I need to make the final decisions on the design and get the pattern marked up. This meant pulling out the coif research to double check pattern layouts, etc.. Always fun trolling through the notes but not that much time to dawdle around right now.
And then, I'm knitting. Note I have not said I am taking up knitting. As many of you know, if I started knitting my mom would make me knit my own socks. Nope, this was a freebie pattern at Micheals that a friend asked me to pick up copies of for a knitting group at her work. The patterns happened to be right next to some pretty pretty fall colored yarn and the rest is history. I have to admit I was kind of curious if I could do this too. I did some basic knitting probably 30 years ago (A Dr. Who scarf :) ) but this was a bit different. The pattern said it was for beginners soooo, I gave it a try. Took some finagling, and starting the thing about 5 times but I'm over half-way done now, so far so good. I know there are a couple of errors where I didn't get the stitch count right, and they may be more noticeable once it all comes off the needles but I think I will be able to live with them :).
EGA seminar: I'm the chairman for our regional seminar here in KC in 2011. Yeah, didn't say No fast enough. Site is locked in, teacher letters sent out, need to get my committee rounded up now. That means phone and email time, lots of it, to be sure communication is clear. Once all that is in place I'm not to worried, I will be able to delegate, just need to get the ducks in place.
And then, Art called. Sigh. This is a director for local community theater that I have worked with before. He is doing T.S. Eliot's Murder at the Catherdral in November and asked me to coordinate the costumes. I've said No to Art before but, this one I just couldn't. I have gotten smarter in my old age and have already lined up someone I know I work well with to co-coordinate with me soooo, hopefully the load will not be to overwhelming.
That's all for now!
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