Still more sewing – and still not done

I went to bed at midnight. In part because the boy was talking to me around the time I should have gone to bed, ahem. I woke up from the alarm and wrote morning pages but had to skip the rest of the morning routine because I was late.

I had breakfast with my husband then forced him to look at pictures of the apartment we rented in Verona. I woke the boy up. And then I did some more knitting and set up the cable pattern in the front. I’m a bit unsure whether it would hav been better to do the plain garter stitch version of this sweater because marling red and orange yarn is already a lot without cabled arrows joining in. I guess I’ll knit some more and make a decision then.

I only did the bare minimum of dishes because I had a lot of things I wanted to accomplish before teaching. First, I walked to our GP’s office to renew a prescription for my husband. I had offered because I was running errands anyway. Then I went to the pharmacy to get face creme but that had to be ordered. Which means today my husband will be picking up both his medication and my face creme. Then I did the health food store run, came back, packed the groceries away and sat down at the sewing machine. I finished the second side seam and pressed and pinned the neckband.

Then there was lunch. My poor, overworked and overwhelmed husband had decided to make some Greek food:

And no, we did not eat lunch on time. But we were only half an hour late. While eating we had a long discussion about resting bitch face and neurodiversity and assumptions. And about you can’t always see from the outside how people feel. It was a very constructive conversation but the topic made me fidgety and uncomfortable and I really wanted to have a break, eat chocolate and play iPad games. Instead I just tackled the huge piles of dirty dishes. And pots. Washing up, tidying and cleaning are very good for channeling restless fidget energy.

My husband dried the dishes, so it didn’t take that long, and I had fifteen minutes before the first student.

I taught four students, then had a one-hour break that I used to sew the neckband to the dress. Unfortunately I didn’t get more done but I also ran out of bobbin thread, had to re-spool the other bobbin I had prepared on the weekend twice and had to re-pin a quarter of the neckband because I had continues sewing without realizing I was out of thread. And now I’m worried I won#t have enough thread left for the skirt.

Then I taught two more students, ate dinner, finally played my silly merging games, read Twitter, started writing this post, watched and episode of C-drama, did Duolingo and went to bed.

I would have loved finishing the dress, I only have three hems left but that means getting the twin needle out and fiddling with the tension and I think I better do that today when I’m more awake.