Blood draw in the morning and sewing progress

I went to bed on time and slept well though the app thinks I didn’t get a lot of deep sleep. Whatever.

I got going a little faster than usual because I wanted to write morning pages and do yoga before I had to leave. I even looked for a 5-minute morning yoga video the night before.

I had planned to at least drink half a cup of tea before I had to leave the house but didn’t manage.

The day was much cooler than the ones before and I had to dig out long pants, socks, a hoodie and a raincoat. I even took an umbrella but didn’t have to use it after all.

At my doctor’s office I didn’t have to wait for long and used the time to buy another book. (I am so immersed in the „Her Majesty’s Royal Coven“-series that I really want to know what happens in book 3. That is the peril of book club choices.) There weren’t enough assistants, apparently, so after a quick chat with my doctor he was the one to draw blood. You can see that he used to be an anesthesiologist because he didn’t bat an eye when I showed him my extremely hard to find veins.

After that I went to one supermarket for most of the ingredients we needed for lunch and to the health food store. My husband wanted to make pasta with peas, ham, and cream, and the only things we had in the house were the peas from the garden. I mean, we did have all kinds of pasta, just not tagliatelle and we were almost out of parmesan.

I came back home earlier than expected and finally had breakfast. I did half the breakfast dishes and then I worked a bit on the dress-in-progress. I sewed the side seams, then put the twin needle in the machine and threaded it (always hard, especially with bad eyesight and it makes me appreciate the automatic threader for regular needles even more), and then I started the iron to press the seam allowances to the inside. And this is what I saw:

One of the skirt pieces was about two centimeters longer on one side than the other. Mind you, I cut one of those pieces out with the first piece as a template and in a hurry but wow, was that uneven. And I had managed to put the whole thing together in a way that the front piece was longer than the back which is just unacceptable. I tried it on, folded it in four and chopped the excess off. So now at least the whole thing is symmetrical and the front and back are the same length which will probably lead to the back hem being a bit short but, well, most people don’t even see these things. And if I ever wear this dress in my mother’s presence she can have fun chiding me for not evening it out properly.

Then I spent an eternity pressing all the seam allowances to the inside and then it was time for lunch:

We added the ham on our plates so the boy could have vegetarian cream sauce. That cucumber you see in the picture looked delicious, crisp and tender but unfortunately most of it was extremely bitter. Phooey!

I had a brief break before my first student, used the break between students to spin some more yarn (the spindle looks basically the same as the first day), taught some more students, helped the boy with the dishes when one of my students canceled (he had offered without prompting, yeah!), then taught some more, wrote a bunch of emails and found two scheduling conflicts in upcoming weeks (and set reminders to deal with them), my doctor called during a lesson to tell me he had renewed my prescription and everything was fine.

The boy and I had agreed to do bodyweight training in the evening. While I waited for him I folded a load of laundry, we did 20 minutes of exercise and then it was finally time for dinner.

In between I tried figuring out how old my mother-in-law’s old treadle sewing machine might be without pulling it out and failed. I should ask her about the machine and learn how to set it up and use it. I’ve been lusting after a machine like this every since I was a teenager and I was very cross when my aunt threw my grandmother’s treadle machine away and made the desk and treadle part into a table.

I the did Duolingo, read a bit more, and started writing this post.

Then there was a bit of knitting, a cup of tea and making a list for today and then to bed.

I’m really looking forward to spending some time with my husband today, and hopefully sew some more.