1. Textile book: I sewed together the first panel completely, so that's one-third done. Then I started putting in the permanent stitches to all green surfaces (which I forgot to do before I'd start sewing the book together), and in the process I realized that there's an entire edge where the brown permanent stitches hadn't been put in, either! A good thing that I spotted the nice white stitches along the tree trunk just in time; but it was an unpleasant surprise. *sigh*
But all green and brown permanent stitches are now in place (or so I hope), and I even started taking out the temporary ones on the finished first panel, which is a painstaking task in itself. You'd think one simply has to yank the thread and it will come out, right? You'd be mistaken. When I learned to sew at upper primary, we used a specific thread for temporary stitches that really did that, but I don't have such thread now, and the simple sewing thread was being very redundant. I must be careful not to damage the actual panels when taking out the stitches. Just what I needed! *double sigh*
2. Baby book: I've made one measly tag to the baby book, since the above mentioned process undermined my determination colossally. But the tag turned out quite nice, so that's good. One down, several dozen more to go. Fortunately, I have time till September, but aside from the tags I've got an awful lot of work to do on this book, so I'm trying to make a little progress every suitable day. (Tomorrow clearly won't count as suitable, by the looks of it.)
3. Writing: Again, very little progress was made, but the couple of paragraphs I actually managed to write turned out to my satisfaction. One should count one's blessings.
Today's achievements
I sewed together the first panel completely, so that's one-third done. Then I started putting in the permanent stitches to all green surfaces (which I forgot to do before I'd start sewing the book together), and in the process I realized that there's an entire edge where the brown permanent stitches hadn't been put in, either! A good thing that I spotted the nice white stitches along the tree trunk just in time; but it was an unpleasant surprise. *sigh*
But all green and brown permanent stitches are now in place (or so I hope), and I even started taking out the temporary ones on the finished first panel, which is a painstaking task in itself. You'd think one simply has to yank the thread and it will come out, right? You'd be mistaken. When I learned to sew at upper primary, we used a specific thread for temporary stitches that really did that, but I don't have such thread now, and the simple sewing thread was being very redundant. I must be careful not to damage the actual panels when taking out the stitches. Just what I needed! *double sigh*
2. Baby book:
I've made one measly tag to the baby book, since the above mentioned process undermined my determination colossally. But the tag turned out quite nice, so that's good. One down, several dozen more to go. Fortunately, I have time till September, but aside from the tags I've got an awful lot of work to do on this book, so I'm trying to make a little progress every suitable day. (Tomorrow clearly won't count as suitable, by the looks of it.)
3. Writing:
Again, very little progress was made, but the couple of paragraphs I actually managed to write turned out to my satisfaction. One should count one's blessings.