{"id":3713,"date":"2012-05-05T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2012-05-05T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:55:09","slug":"a-little-bit-of-sewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of sewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today it&#8217;s rainy and cool in my part of Switzerland&#8230;and the rest of the family are busy doing all sorts of stuff where my presence is neither needed nor desired. Isn&#8217;t that lovely?<\/p>\n<p>So I shall knock off the ironing for starters and then I think a gentle afternoon listening to Wallender on my i-pod and pottering with some sewing is called for. Absolute bliss! Of course there are lots of other things that I should be doing, but I think the ironing might well serve to assuage all feelings of guilt in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still dithering on the new project front &#8211; well there&#8217;s a surprise! That might lead me to head for my happy Mochi Yum Yum fabric, because at least I know what I&#8217;m going to do there. I also pulled out one of my long outstanding WIPs&#8230;<em>June Bug <\/em>(Camille Roskelley) using fabric which I think may be by Kate Spain, but I really don&#8217;t know anymore (can anyone out there help me?). It&#8217;s well on the way and isn&#8217;t a pattern that will take a lot of making, but somehow I&#8217;m just not feeling the love anymore. I don&#8217;t hate it, but I don&#8217;t love it either and I&#8217;m kind of getting the feeling that the colours are a little sad.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/11.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3715\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/11.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/11-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of me is saying &#8216;stop, be bold and pack it in&#8217;, but that&#8217;s so hard to do sometimes with a pattern that&#8217;s half made. What would you do? The good little girl in me says I have to finish it &#8230;which all harks back to having a mother who grew up in the war and always, always made me finish what I started. I still haven&#8217;t managed to break away from this ingrained brainwashing &#8211; where it involves books or food or projects or whatever&#8230;.you&#8217;d think by the ripe old age of nearly 49 I&#8217;d have managed, wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>What would you do?<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;.and a last peek. Jo, my name swap partner for the FQ Retreat, received her name tag this week, so I think that means that I can show you too! (Thankfully she liked the bling!)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3714\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a nice weekend,<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it&#8217;s rainy and cool in my part of Switzerland&#8230;and the rest of the family are busy doing all sorts of stuff where my presence is neither needed nor desired. Isn&#8217;t that lovely? 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