It’s been a weird, short weekend. I haven’t felt “right” but I’ve been fighting whatever it is and trying to get some of my projects at least farther along. Friday night I chose to have a cocktail and I slept really badly (I don’t sleep well when I drink. You’d think I’d learn that it’s just not worth it.) and I woke up on Sunday feeling very tired. Duh. Ha! Ha! Anyway, last night I slept better but am still not feeling like me. I’m hoping I will be back to normal tomorrow because I said I’d work! The pressure is on. AND it’s supposed to snow tomorrow.

This weekend I have made progress on two of my projects. One knitted and one sewed. Yes, I’ve been sewing again. I had bought fabric for a baby/crib-sized quilt for my granddaughter’s bed here at our house. A few months ago I started cutting it up and sewing it together and then put it away … this week, Wednesday, I got a bug in my bonnet and turned the sewing machine on and finished the 9 patches. Once that was done, I had to figure out how to lay them out and sew them together. I got that done this weekend and even got the border on. I didn’t buy enough fabric for the backing or the binding (yet!) but I did attempt to use up the rest of the fabric I had to make a scrappy binding. I’m not sure I did it quite right but it’s together and I think I have enough to get all the way around the quilt. I just have to find the backing and quilt it all together. (Like that’s not a near-monumental effort for me.)

I’m quite pleased with myself and I think it’ll be bright and cheerful for Sylvie’s spot in our house this summer. I have a couple of pictures to hang in her spot and I have a plan to make her a “Very Hungry Caterpillar” pillow and a knitted fairy lights heart like she has in her room at her house. I may have to buy purple fairy lights because that was her color request and since I’m trying to use up what I have, purple hasn’t yet entered the picture.

I also finished the sleeves on my Bolin cardigan. They’re big wide sleeves with a lovely cable down the side and even the ribbing is wide so the sleeves will be full. There was a new-to-me bind off to learn for the sleeves and that was fun. They’re quite attractive, actually,

Yesterday evening I started the button band which will be added up the front right, around the neck and down the left front. A lot of ribbing at 18 stitches! This is something new for me, too, the technique for knitting on the ribbing and it took me a try or two to figure out just where to pick up and knit the stitch that attaches the ribbing to the body of the sweater, but I figured it out and am working my way up to the second button hole. I’ll be picking it up again this evening.

I did finally get our guest room bed made up again. The sheets and blanket have been in the dryer for days. I love the quilt I made for that room, too. It makes me smile. When I’m back to feeling like myself, I’m going to vacuum behind all the pictures and wash the fish that lives up there and a good vacuum of the rug and a dust of the tables and it will be ready for our spring guests. I’ve added a couple of new pillows and of course, Opus the Octopus.

Opus lives in the guest room. I may need to knit a purple one for a certain little girl. I know she’d love it. If I ever pick up my animal knitting, I have a couple of animals to knit, too. We’ll see which comes first!

I’ve not worked on my daughter’s new fingerless mitts again for a bit. I’m going to take the first one to New York when I go to babysit at the end of the month to make sure she likes the fit. And then I’ll knit the second mitt in earnest! I still have a couple (or five) WIPs that I would love to finish. One knitted heart for my bonus daughter and her husband … especially now that they’re expecting a new little one in the early fall. I need to get that done before we travel out to Denver in May.

Since I cleaned up my atelier to make space for Sylvie’s bed, I have moved my WIPs to the edge of my yarn cabinet and they’re “in my face” more this way. Think that will make me get them finished? (I’m thinking they need to go in the cabinet, honestly.)

Gone knitting.