Post #413551

I've done some crafty stuff this weekend, which feels nice. I got a lot of knitting done at the Science Olympiad - the campus this year was a lot easier for students to navigate so I wasn't ferrying kids to their rooms. I could stay in one place and do my knitting while keeping an eye on things. I got to the point in my Clapotis scarf where I could drop the first stitch, which is awesome. It's still looking very nice - I like the yarn and colorway a lot. But this yarn suffers from what I see a lot in yarn of this type - every now and then, I run into a spot where it's just two lengths knotted together. Not cool! I have been clipping out the knots and rejoining the yarn with a less visible method. It's fine. I also did some handsewing today. I have a coat that I like a lot and wear pretty much every day, and the lining had gotten torn. My son was chasing me and grabbed the back of my coat, which caused the woven upper part of the lining to come loose from the satiny part of the lining (the woven part is kind of loosely woven, and it just came apart). I sewed further into the woven section and reattached it to the rest of the lining. It looks better than I thought it would and I hope it will hold. If I don't put it through undue stress I think it will be okay. I wish I had taken before and after pictures. It really looked bad, to the point where I was careful about taking my coat off around people. But now you cannot tell it happened. It would have been even better (probably stronger) if I had dug out the sewing machine and done it that way, but I'd been thinking that for weeks and just haven't done it. I decided to get it done now. I have a real problem letting the "perfect" be the enemy of the "good." But I overcame that today, and now my coat is repaired. And I have one more chore crossed off my list!