Blue

So what did you all do with your weekend? I'm feeling a little better, but I'm still not doing much beyond sewing and cross-stitching. I did finally get back to exercising a little today. I'll be glad when school starts tomorrow; it will be nice to get back into the schedule, and have more to do (besides the ubiquitous housework.)

I'm not entirely sure of the reason, but I've been feeling a little blue. Everything seems boring to me right now. Hopefully I will break out of this soon, maybe tomorrow.

Slow Progress

I'm just hanging on here; I have some problems with medication that I have to get worked out. It's making me very tired, so I'm mostly doing cross-stitching and that kind of thing, that I can do propped up in my recliner. And surfing the Internet, of course. :)

I'm working on a Strawberry Shortcake cross-stitched piece for Wildchild, which will then become part of a backpack similar to the ballet bag I made for her. I'm also working on a pretty little piece which is difficult because it's mostly backstitch, and I have to double every line in the piece, as it was designed to be done on linen, which is different from the Aida fabric I'm doing it on. As far as knitting goes, I've done a very little bit of work trying to learn how to cast on. I'm not sure I'll get the hang of all these loops; that was always my problem trying to learn how to crochet. Well, that and being left-handed. At least left-handedness does not appear to be a difficulty in knitting. Oh, and I did sew myself up a nice, soft fleece hat.

The cold is discouraging me from walking outside, but I do try to use my exercise bike inside when that happens. Not seeing much progress on this front, which is discouraging.

Decorating with Cat Hair

With the cold weather, the cats love to snuggle with me in my recliner. At times, I can have three cats perched on and around me when I am sitting. However, it's annoying to be picking cat hair out of my cross-stitch work. And, like Lutheran Lucciola, I am trying to learn how to knit, and it's annoying while winding my ball of yarn to be picking cat hairs out of that as well. I'm using a Klutz book to attempt to learn how to knit. I don't know if I ever want to do anything fancy like Marie or LotzaStitches. I would just like to be able to knit scarves, hats, dishcloths, things like that. Without cat hair as an added decoration! Today I may whip myself out a hat sewn out of fleece, however. Did I mention the weather is cold? At least the sun is out. And cats are not allowed in the sewing room!

A Break in the Weather

I'm glad the sky is nice and blue and sunny again today, after the day we had yesterday! It was so foggy for most of it that I could barely see the neighbors' houses at some points. Good for a Victorian London murder mystery, but not much else.

The girls are busily teaching their baby dolls their new German vocabulary they just got yesterday. Love it when they do my work for me! However, the cross-stitch projects I started with the girls are not progressing so smoothly - so far. I can't really even take a picture to show you, because they only have a few X's each completed. :) But they're still interested, so that's something.