Back to work and back to school
Craftwise - yesterday sucked. Grr. I did manage to finish the baby cardigan, and love the way the seed stitch collar looks. I still need to put the buttons on, though. I also whipped out a little hat to match, since I’d skipped the called-for hood. It looks very cute.
Then I decided I was going to finish Klumpen’s fairy dress. I sewed the lining pieces together, and started stitching the lining to the dress. Did one seam, trimmed it, and then I found my mistake. I’d sewn the lining inside out, and when it was time to match the right sides of the lining and dress together, they didn’t match up.
I had to walk away from the sewing machine at that point, or I would have broken something. I was so frustrated. I pulled out the stitching I’d done, and tried to figure out what to do with it.
I thought I’d try a french seam, but there really isn’t enough fabric for that. It would make the lining smaller than the dress, and the dress is already form fitting. So that’s out. I also thought about undoing the seams and redoing them in the opposite direction. I decided against that as well. At about 5:30 this morning, after a crappy sleepless night, I decided that I’d be better off just redoing the entire lining.
I plan to put a big “R” on each piece of the lining, to make sure I’m sewing right sides and not wrong sides. I want to have this finished, because I’m just getting tired of working on it.
Speaking of not sleeping, I have a neurologist appointment this week, where I plan to tell him that the latest medication isn’t doing anything for me. I still wake up at the slightest thing, and have a hard time falling back to sleep. Maybe he’ll do a second sleep study while I’m on this med, to see if I’m getting any better sleep. We’ll see.
Today at work is devoted to cleaning up the mess left on Friday by idiotic requests. Lunch and nap time can’t come too soon.
And this evening will be all about hearing the news from the kids’ first day back at school. Klumpen is looking forward to wearing her Frankenboots and scaring the 6th graders. TSM is looking forward to earning money from us for his good behavior in class. (Bribery, it works.)
We’ll also have to see if the school gives Klumpen a hard time for wearing her pentacle necklace. They really don’t want to go that route with us. We’ve brought L up to make up her own mind about religion, and to follow whatever path is right for her. Our only restrictions were that she research thoroughly and be prepared to back up her decisions. She has chosen the Wiccan path, and I’ll back her on it. If Christians can wear Crosses, and Jews can wear a Star of David; then my daughter the Wicca can wear a pentacle. If the US military can accept Wicca as a valid religion and even have Wiccan chaplains, then I’d better not get grief from a local school district.
Whew. That’s enough of that rant. I guess it just touched a hot button for me today.