Wednesday 2 October 2013

Day 2: Bits and Bobs

Yesterday was a busy day, I spent most of it working, then the evening I was trying to get things done with a daughter who wanted attention and didn't want to sleep. I went to bed when she did, and was asleep about 15 minutes after her.

In the middle of all my busyness, I managed to get things done.
My UFO progress was small. While I had a few minutes between clients, I sat in my car and did some knitting on a baby blanket. It's been on the needles for awhile, and looks pretty much the same as this one that I finished last October. Actually, this one might have been started then, as it got started not too long after I finished the first one.

I spent time cutting out and taping together a cloth pull up pattern, I'm trying out this one, the Trimsie Trainer pattern. So I had managed to measure Guinevere to work out what size I need (the largest! Eeep, she really got her mama's thighs, good for walking long distances) so I could work out how much fabric I needed. Then it was picking out the colours I wanted. Which Guinevere helped with. She was pointing to all the bright colours (and black) on my computer monitor, saying 'red' to most of them. Still trying to decide exactly how many I'm going to make. And what I'm going to use for the inner layer. I'm thinking flannelette, so she knows when she's wet.

I know working on cloth pull ups isn't working on a UFO, but it's working on something that's needed. Plus I've found when I start new projects with a UFO completion mindset, I'm more likely to finish my new project, meaning no new UFO's filling the cupboard.

I was hoping I'd get as far as working on my wetbags, but that might have to wait.

4 comments:

  1. Being creative and productive with an active child is the hardest thing in the world... trying to be a good mum and make something can be so very frustrating. Do it this way, the salami principle! A slice of this, a slice of that...

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    1. I like the salami idea Linda. And I think having cleared my worktable makes it easier, as I actually have the space to leave a project partially made there to do bits of it when I can carve out a slice of time.

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  2. I'm impressed by anyone who achieves anything with youngsters around! Good luck!

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    1. She has two shelves in my sewing room with things for her to play with, that helps. Plus she loves sitting beside my machine as I sew, which also helps. Time with mummy and mummy gets to sew :)

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