Switching Gears
Apr. 28th, 2024 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishaday I've been on a sewing kick for months now - averaging about a project a week (as I attempt to replace most of my wardrobe with me-made WITH POCKETS), but this month I've managed only two weekends at home (including this one) - I cleaned up my sewing area, put the ironing board up and went to Bend to see the family, came back, turned around and went to Shelton the very next weekend to cook for the planning weekend for the Girl Scount camp I'll be cooking at for a week in August. I'm at the tail end of 7 days at home before I leave AGAIN for a work conference, and I didn't feel like getting everything out again this week when I'd have to clean it up again.
I do that both for not having things out that the cats could shenanigan with, and also for the relief of coming home to a clean house.
While I certainly could have started AND finished a sewing project this week, I haven't felt like there was enough leeway to start anything interesting - I felt blocked, while also realizing I was blocking myself.
This weekend, acknowledging that yep, still not starting a sewing thing, but I needed some sort of creative outlet: I picked up my knitting needles. I have 4 projects in progress that I haven't touched since before i moved in, but they were handy. There's a rib knit scarf in a soft blurple yarn that I started in New Mexico from yarn Mom had frogged from something. That'll be a good mindless travel project. And for around the house, I have a moss brioche knit lap blanket that's about a foot and a half done - shouldn't be too hard to figure out which row I'm on of the pattern (repeat of 4, shouldn't be bad) The lace scarf and the beret can wait a little.
(I have more knitting WIPs, I admit, but do I know exactly where those are? NOPE.)
I do that both for not having things out that the cats could shenanigan with, and also for the relief of coming home to a clean house.
While I certainly could have started AND finished a sewing project this week, I haven't felt like there was enough leeway to start anything interesting - I felt blocked, while also realizing I was blocking myself.
This weekend, acknowledging that yep, still not starting a sewing thing, but I needed some sort of creative outlet: I picked up my knitting needles. I have 4 projects in progress that I haven't touched since before i moved in, but they were handy. There's a rib knit scarf in a soft blurple yarn that I started in New Mexico from yarn Mom had frogged from something. That'll be a good mindless travel project. And for around the house, I have a moss brioche knit lap blanket that's about a foot and a half done - shouldn't be too hard to figure out which row I'm on of the pattern (repeat of 4, shouldn't be bad) The lace scarf and the beret can wait a little.
(I have more knitting WIPs, I admit, but do I know exactly where those are? NOPE.)
