Month: August 2011

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Rebellion

I felt rebellious yesterday. I knew I ought to work, but I didn’t feel like it, so I didn’t. My husband will be coming home today from the fleshpots of Las Vegas (I bet they really have fleshpots there, whatever […]

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Kitchen Nightmares

I’ve had a week of classes now. My classes seem particularly excellent this term, and my summer class did as well. There are three possibilities: We are using happiness as our group topic rather than global warming, and this just […]

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Contrast

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This morning when I woke, I found that one dog had wet her bed and another had made a mess on the kitchen floor. Once I had dealt with that and fed the monsters, the third dog vomited on the […]

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Come and Dwell

We had a bunch of new hymns for a 9/11 festival we have coming up. “Come and Dwell in Solomon’s Halls” was completely new to us, and Egypt and I were both tearing up over it. It’s just a beautiful […]

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Simplicity 2263

Here’s the blouse from Simplicity 2263. It’s constructed in an interesting way. The front and back are cut in one piece each, the back on the straight grain and the front on the bias. The back extends over the shoulders […]

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Fall Schedule

Here’s yesterday’s sewing: the straight skirt from Simplicity 2263, though I changed the pleats to gathers on this one, since I plan to make this in the teal gabardine as part of the suit for this SWAP. I also cut […]

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Knitting Blogs of Yore

I spent several hours yesterday scrubbing things and a couple of hours working and sewed a pair of pants (all but hems and fastenings, and then I decided to have a look at the knitting blogs of yore. “Knitting blogs […]

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