Pardon the awful pun. It’s been a tough day, but it was capped off well. I’m not going to say anythign more about the day, but if you just want to know about the contest stuff and skip the sewing, just scroll down some

Tonight was the 2nd sewing class of the 6 week course. We covered seaming (hence the corny title). I took some notes and everything we did made sense. I’m hoping for some time between now and next class to practice what we did and to review my notes – tonight wasn’t so much about technique – we did sew and all, but we got lots of pointers and tips and I find that re-reading (and ok sometimes rewriting too) my notes makes things stick better.

Turns out though that practice sewing and tips don’t make for great photo ops…

Here’s two anyway:

This is the 1st seam we did – thrilling, isn’t it?

Look! A ruffle! We learned about basting, and the different things (including ruffles) it can be used for. I know many of you who have been sewing for years and those of you who have no interest are rolling your eyes or nodding off to sleep, so I’ll get to the good stuff…

Today is the 4th anniversary of the day I started this blog. I am also X number of comments away from 3000. So, in honor of both, I’m doing 2 giveaways. Whoever posts that 3000th comment will get a thank you gift, AND everyone who can tell me (leave a comment on this post) how many days in that 1st month I posted multiple times in one day (What the heck was I thinking back then?) will get tossed into the hat (knitted of course) for a drawing. To be clear, you just need to tell me the total # of days I posted more than once in a day, not how many total posts.

Prizes? Yes, there will be prizes, but more on that tomorrow (I’m not working tomorrow so I plan to post in the afternoon which will let me take daylight pictures)

Obviously the 3000th comment thing only goes until I hit 3000, but the anniversary part will stay open until, eh, a week sounds good – St Patrick’s day it is!

I so dislike the time change, but especially the spring ahead. Don;t get me wrong, I love the extra daylight and all, but my body thinks it’s 9:30 and it’s technically 10:30. Add in a measure of my current sleeping issues, and you;ve got trouble.

Anyway, it was another gorgeous day here. We spent some time outside, took a nice long walk, did some errands, and thoroughly abused each other in Wii Tennis. I also did the Fit again tonight, and feel like I’m getting back into the routine. We capped it off with our usual Sunday evening events, catching up on Netflix movies together, while I knit away. We watched Madagascar (the 1st), Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist, Max Payne, and 2 episodes of Buffy.

I am in a dishcloth and soap swap and while I don’t want to give anything away, I will say I completed most of what I want to send out.

While I won’t say anything yet about what you see, the pouch was an awesome purchase from Splityarn a while back (I got the matching smaller version too). Go check out her stuff, you will NOT be sorry!

Ah well, off to bed with me, another busy week ahead.

I don’t know baseball, so forgive me if the average is completely wrong. (If this were a hockey plus/minus metaphor, I’d be fine!)

We’ve had the Wii (and the Fit) for awhile. We get a little competitive around certain games, and taunt each other with our scores. We jokingly fib to each other that we aren’t practicing anything when the other isn’t around (we both know that’s SO not true) and have a lot of fun with it. Wii tennis in this house is not for the weak, just sayin’

Over the last few months though, we’ve both gotten way busier at work, our down time has been less and less, and the Wii time dropped dramatically. I’ve picked back up on it again the last week or so, and today, I went all out.

After an 45 min of the aerobics, I was still feeling good. I fired up tennis, won a best of 5 match, and remembered I hadn’t played the home run derby in awhile…

1st game out, I beat the standing record of 7 home runs, 3800 ft with this:

Too bad my knitting wasn’t anything close to .900 today! I have yet to pick up my needles. Work that should have taken an hour or so this morning took way too long and aside from the Wii time, I didn’t get to anything I originally intended to. Ah well, hopefully I will find some time tomorrow.

I’m really hoping the time change tonight doesn’t set me back on my sleep progress! I slept for a little more than 6 hours last night – and that’s a big deal. I’m trying to stay up a little later again tonight, since there will be no alarm going off in the morning, it could be ok And since I’m staying up a little later, I can rip and reball the cascade for Thermis, and then cast on the dishcloth for the swap I was supposed to have worked on today!

Yay – found knitting time!

I had burnt out a bit on swaps a while back, and haven’t been involved in any in quite a while. Going hand in hand with my renewed interest in dishcloth knitting however, I kind of stumbled into a Dishcloth and Soap swap and thought it might be fun – knit a cloth get (or make) a fun soap, and send it off. Nice and easy!

We got our partners on Monday, with packages to be in the mail no later than March 20. I got my package TODAY!

My partner Cathy (CathyCH on ravelry) sent me a lovely cloth in a blue that perfectly matches my guest bathroom, a lemongrass scented soap, and a conditioner that smells great!

Tomorrow I will knit up my cloth and go shopping for my soap so I can get my package in the mail too. Once I know my pal has received hers, I will post pics of what I’m making up just for her

Happy weekend!

Hang on – it’s almost Friday.

That’s been my mantra all day (actually, it’s a slight variation of that, but close enough) Busy day at work (par for the course) followed by a bunch of work I took home, including prepping for a meeting tomorrow afternoon that I’m torn between wanting to get into already and dreading.

I did snap a shot today that kind of sums up how I feel like things have been going of late (no, not really, just indulging in a little pity party. It’ll pass). Our wonderful IT guy (Hiya J!) was doing some stuff to swap PCs for one of my guys, and he called me over to check out this error message

Click for big so you can really see the error. He and I shared an appreciation for the lower case f, and the uppercase AIL. We don’t know what threw the error, so who knows – maybe it’s M$’s attempt at l33t?

It’s about time to wash up and get ready for some TV and then bed. And then? It’s Friday

As if I needed further proof of just how out of it I am with this latest bout of sleep issues (because my brain fog, crankiness, and pathetic ability to construct proper sentences hasn’t been enough), I had another revelation today at the doctors office.

I checked in, and sat down for what I expected to be a good 15 to 20 minute wait. I pulled out my Thermis, expecting to finish off the last round of “setup” and start in on the pattern section, and to get an idea of what was coming, I decided to glance at the pattern. Wow. Just Wow. I spent a good hour or so knitting the other night and never caught on to the fact that I wasn’t following directions. At all.

I apparently decided to completely ignore the direction to K1, P1 for 20 rounds and just picked up on the K 1 rnd, P1 rnd. Instead of 20 rounds of ribbing, I have 20 rounds of garter.

There are times I would call it a design element and move along. This is not one of them. This ribbing is what will keep the cowl snug against the neck and garter just won’t cut it here. So, a-ripping I shall go

Not tonight though – last night was a slight improvement with the new meds, so I am going to try and take them early again and get into bed. It likely won’t be tomorrow night either since I have a meeting on Friday that I need to prep for tomorrow night. I may get in some knitting time, but right now, it’s not looking too good. Weekend’s coming though

I just got home from the 1st night of sewing class, caught up quick on my email and I’m heading off to take the new meds I was prescribed (yes, I spoke to the doctors office early about my lack of results, and I’m trying something new – we’ll see) and get into bed early. Not quite as early as I’d like but I’ll take what I can get.

I am glad I signed up for this class as despite a slow start tonight (I already knew how to thread my machine and bobbin, but I’m really glad she’s taking it from the very basics) I think it will be a good class. I hope to learn as much as I can from her in the next six weeks.

After class we shopped for the practice fabric we need for next weeks class – yes I likely already have something here I can use, but it was all 30% off… I will show you the 2 I got tomorrow – tonight just a weird, slightly artsy shot of my machine in class. I’ll try to take better class pictures next week

And now, off to bed with me! Sweet dreams (I HOPE!)