Lovelihood

Just a few more nights of quilting in front of the TV before heading into the actual final stretch of binding. And then maybe this guy will get some use while there's still chill in the air.

I rarely ever sew from your typical commercial enveloped pattern because sewing clothes generally intimidates the crap out of me, and going through all those pattern catalogs at the store is a tedium I just can't bear. And some well-chosen books plus the infinite wisdom of the internet gets me rather deep into the list of things I plan to produce with my sewing machine. There are times, though, when I have to turn to the personality-dead language of the tissue paper pattern, and I can't help but feel that if it were all this kind of pattern, I would probably never sew.

Yesterday, out at dinner, I proclaimed (big flourish of the hands here) that the single greatest innovation to hit ramen was the addition of a soft boiled egg. Today I announce that the addition of animalian ears is the greatest innovation to children's hats.

What might befall a pin caught unawares by the oncoming sewing machine needle. See also: what will undoubtedly happen happen to my finger one day.

Gonna try and keep it managable with this year's costumes. Although, with the weather turning, it's been tempting to spend every free moment under that quilt that I'm still hand-stitching while instantly queuing episodes of Lost that, yes, I'm just now getting around to buying into. In the spirit of keeping it quick and simple, I've picked through my stash for appropriate-enough materials. And my once beloved wool cardigan, now at the end of its off-the-rack life, will be prodded and tweaked into something slightly more ursine.

In Kindergarten doing your word search homework in purple marker is perfectly acceptible. It is also, evidently, exciting enough to elicit a "This is so exciting I'm going to write an exclamation mark!". True story.

An up-the-nose shot of this month's calendar page, as interpretted by The Boy in construction paper mosaic.