Sunday, September 28, 2008

A Busy Weekend - but no sewing

Well, as suspected, life had different plans than I did.

The migraine was NOT manageable so I didn't get anything done on Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday - you get the picture.

We had a funeral on Wednesday and DBIL is in town for the week so we had a few people for supper on Wednesday and the big family dinner yesterday. Both at our place...we don't get to do this very often so I really enjoy it.

Now, my Dad's coming this Saturday and so I needed to make some bread for him; that was yesterday too since the planned supper was spaghetti and I was either going to make bread or buy it, sooooo, the results of the baking



Turned out really well, 7 loaves - 5 are now in the freezer waiting for Dad.

My coat -

Today I checked my wool flannel and just as I thought - it's not straight. Before I did the London Shrink on it, I did pull threads on either end, but forgot to check if it was square.

I roped DH into helping me pull it to square it up, but it didn't work - at all.

So now I'm going to try dampening it a bit to see if I can straighten it while wet then press it. I have no idea if this will work or not, but it's worth a try - I've checked thru the blogs and searched the 'Net and have seen this as an option a couple times.

Update - wool wet, 1 spin in the washer and pressed with a damp press cloth all the while straightening it out. Hopefully it will stay square. Time to lay it out for cutting. Tomorrow ... ???

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful loaves of bread!

    Sorry to hear about your wool. Hope it works out for you. I can't tell you how many times I've had to rope my giant sons or hubby into helping me with stuff; they can be lifesavers!

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  2. My fingers are crossed, Marjie. After pressing it last night I was hopeful it would stay put. Right now it is sitting all folded up just as it was pressed. The test will be tonight when I get home and check. I'd like to at least get the pattern laid out on it tonight, possibly start cutting

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  3. Hope all works out!
    Nice looking bread.

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  4. How are the migraines? Are they letting you make any coat progress?

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