Thursday started with our department breakfast at work - ah we stuffed ourselves with bagels, cream cheese, bacon, bruschetta & crusty bread and mini cupcakes - 3 contributors makes for a pretty filling amount of food even if it all 'doesn't' go together !
This link is not exactly the recipe used but the pic is spot on - ours tasted as good as this one looks ! bruschetta
Friday afternoon, a friend and I went to see Breaking Dawn, pt 1 - lunch, movie, popcorn, all good. We both enjoyed the movie. Can't wait for pt 2 now.
I signed up for the Friday Night Sew In and did spend the evening in my sewing room. I decided to take a look at my coat. You know, the coat I started for the Coat Sewalong in 2008 ! So, I'd left it with one front and lapel padstitched, but hadn't done the other side. For quite some time I tried to figure out exactly HOW the padstitching was done. For the life of me, I couldn't see what I'd done on the first side. Checked out all the sites, blogs and links I'd used before and found a few new youtube videos that helped some. There was no sewing Friday night (it was all reading) but I did learn a lot. For one thing, the lapel was not padstitched well on the side I already did - it didn't curl hardly at all - I need to take it out and redo it, I think. This is the second side which I did this weekend - the main body front but not the lapel yet.
Next up - another batch of Christmas cookies are chilling in the fridge - they will become Candy Cane cookies in the next couple of evenings.
And my finished UFO for this weekend - I finished my Hermione's Everyday Socks on Aug 6 (yikes !) and they've been waiting for me to weave in the ends since then - jeez, it only took me 15 minutes - what the heck was I waiting for ?!
Oh and there was a break Saturday night for hubby to take me out for a birthday dinner. All in all a really good few days.
Hope you've all had a good weekend.
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It was a good weekend, after all. You figured out how to make progress on the coat (I think G has yet to start hers, so you're ahead of the curve), and got rid of a UFO! Plus, you celebrated your birthday twice! Great stuff. And now you're going to make me look bad by making more cookies. Oh, well....
ReplyDeleteWow - ratted out by my friend Marjie - she's right, I haven't started mine and now I want to make a different pattern. We'll see - I'm trying to get rid of 20# again - and it doesn't make sense to make a coat now, does it?
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are back to regular blogging. I'll have to make sure to check in regularly. g