Fred in the sewing room:

Ollie in the sewing room:

I just don't seem to have the drive to write long blog posts this week so this is a super quick update for my two major projects right now:

Number 1: The Crepe Dress

I got the sash cut out and sewn together on Sunday and attached the bodice to the skirt. I have a dress (and it fits too!) lacking only a hem and a proper photoshoot in order to be considered complete. This weekend is a long weekend so hopefully I'll manage to do both of those things.

Number 2: Rob's Sweater

As of right now all the pieces (front, back and two sleeves) have been knitted and all the ends woven in. I'm going to seam it up and knit the collar tonight. This means I'll be steam blocking instead of wet blocking but I think I can get away with it. We're having some family pictures taken tomorrow and I really want the sweater to be finished in time. I know I've said it before but I still love this yarn.

Gratuitous Critter Picture:

Ollie spent most of lunch time trying to fit herself in that box. Abby helped out by alternatively supervising and chewing on the box.

I've been kind of delinquent in working on my Farmer's Wife squares but the nice thing about long term projects is that I don't really feel guilty about neglecting them a bit. I do have three more squares done however. I present number 10 "Bowtie", number 88 "Star of Hope", and number 6 "Big Dipper". It took me ages to choose the fabrics to use for Bowtie. I started out with a couple of greys and was trying to make the bicycle fabric go with them when it really didn't. Do you every put things down for a bit and then come back to them and find that the problem is now very obvious? This works for me all the time. When I came back to the Bowtie fabrics I realized that the bicycle one was where I needed to start and I had the other two picked out and everything cut fifteen minutes later.

Random good news: Ollie threw up a button today. She ate it yesterday evening and I spent most of the intervening time wondering how much it costs to have a button removed from your cat.

She tried to make up for it tonight by eating a pair of earrings but was foiled. She was more successful in unplugging and switching off the router. She also ran gleefully around the house with a stolen candy wrapper. Fred and Abby just lay around and watched.

At the moment Ollie is trying to eat my desk lamp and catch my cursor.