It's been a while since I last posted. Fortunately, it wasn't because something awful had happened or I wasn't feeling well. It just happened due to being over busy and making myself extremely tired. Several things have conspired to cause the problem, from family visits, helping make curtains, planned outings and work. In addition I have been dropping off and picking up younger daughter several nights a week. Last year she decided to make a career change and train as a nurse. She had been working as a healthcare assistant for several months to decide if it was definitely what she wanted to do. Having made her decision she started her course last October. She is on a fast track course because of her degrees and her previous work in healthcare. Currently she is on placement and working 12 hour shifts at a hospital near where I work. I drop her off and get into work early and then work late so I can pick her up. I've cleared a lot of work in an evening when I have the office to myself but it has meant I've been tired when I get home. Too tired to post. We are now 6 weeks in to the arrangement and my body seems to have got the hang of the timing and I'm feeling much more alert.
Whilst I haven't been posting I have been winding down at the end of the day with some sewing or knitting. My challenge for this month was to start knitting my pink cardigan and I've been working on this several nights a week. I may have the back finished by the end of the month.
I've also done a little embroidery on both the tablecloth and the star trek cross stitch. I'm trying to alternate what I'm working on. This way all the projects move forward. When I tidied my sewing cupboard I found the rug canvas for the latched rug I wanted to make using fabric from old T shirts. The last two nights I've spent time to get used to the technique. I've only done a small amount so far but I do like the effect. I'm making up the colour placement as I go along rather than planning a pattern. As a child I can remember visiting friends and family and seeing rugs that had been made this way, by using left over fabric or from clothes that had reached the end of their useful life, having been mended many times. I also like the plaited fabric mats that I've seen on Pinterest.
The tiredness has affected my enjoyment and ability to work on my projects so I took today off work as annual leave to catch up a little. I started the day by adding a border to the Churn Dash quilt. I have a backing fabric but need to iron it so I will be able to make the quilt sandwich later today or tomorrow. A friend of my older daughter has recently had a baby so this has a new home to go to once quilted.
My son had given me a commission to make some draw string bags to help him keep various cables and controllers for games machines and other small items organised. He wanted 10 in all and I had some calico that was left over from something, I can't remember what, that made up 8 of them. For the final two bags I used a piece of fabric that I was given ages ago but I hadn't found a use for. I already had sufficient cord for all the bags.
At this point in my sewing day my phone beeped with a message from work to say we have OFSTED coming in next week to inspect the apprenticeship provision we offer. We have been expecting it, as it's several years since their last visit. It did distract me from my sewing, so that's as much as I've got done today, I needed to do some household chores, with the main one being to book my grocery delivery and complete the order.
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