8.14: 3TT

Three on Thursday this week!

Thing 1. My Alabama Chanin project can be overwhelming, what with the various fabrics, threads, embroidery floss, beads (seed, chop, bugle) & sequins… not to mention the tools, including various types of pins & needles, scissors, marking pens & chalk. I managed to put together a small project bundle to take up north on my jaunt with Maddy — limiting myself (not easy) to only needle & thread/floss. Well, I brought everything except the main thread/floss that I was using! There happened to be a small hank of Weeks Dye Works Pearl Cotton in Eggplant in the sewing tin that I grabbed — I have no idea where I got it, but it’s gorgeous & I’d been considering how/when to use it. If I wanted to sew, I had no choice but to use it, so I did — and I’ve since ordered more & other colors.

Sewing has been slow of late with everything else going on, but I got back to it last night. Here’s an update!

Front & back of one of the back panels, as of this morning.

Same panel two weeks ago. Spot the differences! haha.

And here’s a more detailed shot of the bottom third of the panel that I’ve been concentrating on.

Thing 2. After I did a little sewing last night, I pulled Addie’s throw onto the table & started going over that with a fine-tooth comb, tucking in ends & whatnot. While it looks amazing, I’m afraid it’s not going to wear very well, so I’ll have to offer ongoing maintenance services. haha. I’ve also been working on the border of the Family Temperature Blanket — whoa boy that baby is a lapful!

Turns out, I had one tooth to knit on my second Hitchhiker, so I finished that off the other night.

I’m not sure what I did on the edge at top/near right — some extra increases, I guess — to make that little bump. No one will know but you & me.

It still needs blocking, and that bump might not be so prominent.

Thing 3. I have tomorrow off, and it’s one of my long weekends — the first “normal” one since early May! I’ve had plenty of time off, so I’m not complaining at all, but it just goes to show that “summertime” & “routine” do not go together around here.

I can’t complain (too much) about the weekend weather, either — there’s rain everyday, but also sunshine! Maybe there’ll be a good thunderstorm to chase, or rainbows to spot.

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I have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning. I saw her a couple of weeks ago (a week+ after a visit to urgent care) about a “bug bite” I got around the 4th of July that quickly turned into… who-knows-what?? Cellulitis? The doc at urgent care thought so & put me on an antibiotic. It was clearing up, but came raging back when the course of drugs was finished. My doc wasn’t so sure about cellulitis; she tested for Lyme (just to be safe – and it was negative, thank goodness), but thought maybe it was a bad allergic reaction, which I’ve had to bug bites before but never like this. More drugs. I finished one of them yesterday morning… and there’s still a big red/maroon (sometimes a little itchy) spot on my leg. So far it doesn’t seem to be getting worse. Geez, I hate this stuff. The good news is, they did all the labs when they drew blood for the Lyme test, so I don’t have to go in extra-early for that — and the results weren’t too bad. Tomorrow, it’s just mammo, physical, and follow-up on the bug bite. Wish me luck.