The Weekend

Saturday was, for the most part, routine -- laundry, cleaning, etc.

My brother and his wife celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Saturday evening, so we dropped by for the celebration. Two of my other siblings were there with their spouses. I hadn't seen them since our Christmas get-together in early December so it was nice seeing them and catching up with the latest news. My SIL's brother brought a photo album of the wedding and it was so much fun to see what everyone looked like 25 years ago. LOL I guess I should mention that they are actually my half-siblings and for the first 40 years of my life we had no contact, which is why the photo album was such fun for me.

Yesterday, I SEWED!! I worked on Kwik-Sew 3419. Unfortunately, my results weren't what I'd hoped for. I have definite fit issues to deal with on this pattern and I'm not quite sure how to handle them, but I'm working on it. I'm seriously out-of-practice on sewing with knits and I can't help but think that that was a contributing factor as well. The neckline on this top has a facing which I will definitely nix the next time I make it. I headed to Pattern Review before I started to read other's review of this pattern. I do think if I can get it fitted properly that it *might* be a good style for me -- we'll see.

My other great find was a podcast done by a woman named Heather. It's called CraftLit "a podcast for crafters who love books". Heather is an English teacher and her podcasts are fantastic. She is particularly fond of British Literature (so am I) so I hit paydirt in finding her blog. I have no idea how I got there. I was just browsing blogs and somehow I wound up at CraftLit. Right now, she's in the third (or fourth) chapter of A Tale of Two Cities (the link is a downloadable text version) by Charles Dickens. So as I sewed, I listened -- such bliss.

There's my weekend in a nutshell. Hope all of you enjoyed yours.

Off to work for me. :-(