Status update

I am a little slow getting caught up with things, apparently including managing more frequent posts.

 I finally got around to reading the new Threads Magazine, which arrived between Christmas and New Years.

It is an interesting issue with several fine articles, but what really interests me at the moment is the fabulous article by Kenneth King, showing the fitting technique he used with me when we were fitting my shirt and my pants.  The illustrations are far more clear than anything I could do to even partially explain.  This technique was really fabulous and changed my way of looking at pattern fitting.

If you haven't read this yet, and I realize I am a little slow here, please do.

I am making progress on my goals.

We are cleaning, this is something G and I can do together and it helps him feel a little more useful, although I would not have anticipated this a year ago.

I am not exercising an hour a day yet, or even every day, but I am working on this.  I still have trouble exercising without breaking into a major coughing attack, and days I exercise, I have a much harder time settling down to sleep without major coughing attacks at night.   I have however, lost all the holiday weight, so I am more relaxed about the workout schedule.

I am knitting, and getting some reading in.  Sewing not yet.  Reading and sewing are the hardest things as these are the things I tend to get completely lost in, where I lose track of time, hunger, and the presence of anything else going on the world.  A little hand sewing can be interrupted, reading the newspaper or a magazine likewise.  But as for losing myself in a book or a sewing project, these are things about which we are still negotiating boundaries.

I do think I will be sewing this week.  I have had a bad electrical switch in my sewing room, where I have trouble getting the lights to come on (it is not the lights but in the switch) or to stay on once I get them on.  I will cut off the power and rewire the switch today, or at least that is my intention.

I also have a kitty in kitty ICU today in critical condition on oxygen and IVs.  We don't yet know, if we will ever know, if it is the primary cause is a heart condition or a major infection; at this point we are merely hoping she will pull through.  I am very distracted and scattered, and I may cancel plans that require attention and thought (like wiring) and curl up with a blanket and my knitting.

Comments

[Tanya]

I'm in Canada, so just got my edition of Threads. The fitting article was fabulous. I've copied the pages and posted them on the wall of my sewing room for future reference.

[Gigi]

Mardel, I'm so sorry to hear about your baby! I know how hard that is to deal with. My thoughts are with you.

Thanks for the heads-up on the new Threads. I stopped subscribing because mine always arrived in tatters so I need a reminder when a new issue comes out.

I hope you are soon feeling your old self again!

[K-Line]

Mardel: I'm so sorry to hear about your cat. I am giving her healthy pet vibes and I so hope she will pull through well.

I didn't realize that article was by the guy you took the workshop with - though when I read it (my first Threads reading experience) I thought of you, of course. How interesting.

I didn't like that wool felting article. The look of it creeped me out like nails on a chalkboard.