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I finished off the 1878 bathing suit Thursday night and finished the 1930's geometric sweater last night. The goal for tonight is to finish hemming dresses for band freshmen and then to take a little off the top edge of my 1890's corset.

And if anyone noticed that there wasn't an update on the cross-stitching, it's because I've barely worked on it since the last update. I've been busy with other things.

koshka_the_cat

The world is falling even more apart, but my mom and I saw Spamalot today which was a very welcome and diverting two hours! I had seen it before, but the shortened for Las Vegas version, and a very long time ago. It was highly entertaining!

Also, the theater had booster seat cushions. My mom noticed another short woman with one and sent me to get them. Very comfortable and it was easier to see! They fit perfectly in the seats and my little feet dangled like I'm used to...

koshka_the_cat

Work, every other week protest, then I helped my mom find a place she needs to go, then made dinner. I'm glad it's the weekend!

koshka_the_cat

I took advantage of a cat free area and glued the 30s dress pattern together at work. I did part Monday and part yesterday. I'll bring it home tomorrow. The skirt is large and awkward. I held it up to me and it's almost ankle length. I think the seahorse dress skirt was almost ankle length too. I'm so short...

atherleisure

I started a bag for bathing (i.e., swimming) from a pattern published in Weldon's Practical Knitting in 1896. It should be a pretty quick project. I've done the first eighth of the first side in about an hour. I don't intend to have this project in progress for more than a couple of weeks, but we've seen how my Victorian bathing suit has gone. (That should be finished tonight, I hope!)

koshka_the_cat

I left work a little early to pick up the school credit card.

There was a note on the district office door to ring the doorbell and stand with your ID showing, and call if no one comes. I pushed the big glass circle, I pressed the box below the circle. Neither felt pushable, but I tried. Nothing happened.

I called. I spoke to someone who wasn't there who called someone to let me in.

Then I noticed a very obvious round circle beneath the the glass circle. Clearly the doorbell.

The woman who came to the door asked why I didn't push the buzzer. The woman who gave me the credit card asked. I just said I don't know what happened, I tried pushing it. Which is true. I didn't feel like I needed to explain that I pressed the lens and a random box

Oh, oops? 😂

koshka_the_cat

I'm still a little sore from the not-an-accident yesterday. I can't imagine what an actual accident must feel like.

I've wasted too much time looking up other cases of automatic braking braking unnecessarily. The internet is full of anecdata on it.

Anyway, my already long following distances are getting longer because I'm worried about other people's cars getting confronted with fluttering objects and stopping. Which probably means more people will cut in front of me. Whatever.

I'm kind of surprised how much this has gotten to me. Sigh.

atherleisure

I finally started the buttonholes on my 1878 bathing suit. Three more buttonholes and nine buttons will finish the project. It ought to be finished by the end of the week.

koshka_the_cat

Remember how on Friday an actual car pulled in front of me and I had to slam on the brakes and the automatic braking system was all meh?

This morning, a small yellow plastic bag fluttered in front of my car, the auto braking started beeping, and the brakes slammed so hard that my things flew everywhere, coffee spilled, the Jeep behind me nearly rear ended me, and flung me forward enough that my hip, back, and shoulder hurt. I was so flustered with the force and the beeps from the car and all the cars beeping at me that I couldn't even figure out how to make the car move for a few moments.

I'm seriously considering trading it in for a ten to fifteen year old car. Except I also don't want ten to fifteen year old car issues. That's why I got this car.

Anyway, it was a long day and I'm happy to be home and still have the heating pad on my still sore shoulder.

The first thing I did when I got in my car on the way home was turn the auto braking off. I don't think I'd feel safe in a car with it again.

koshka_the_cat

My only goal this weekend was to look for my missing car charger, which should be in my car. I didn't. It was a very relaxing weekend!

Too short though. The last two were three day weekends, as all weekends should be.

koshka_the_cat

I think I got a new best time on the Sunday crossword, 16:36. Once it glitched and I got a time of 14:53, but that puzzle was probably half an hour. Last week, I finished in 14 something, but it took three minutes to find a typo.

I don't play Wednesday through Sunday for speed, but I do try for a new best time if it's going quickly. I'd really like to get a real best time for Sunday though!

atherleisure

I made a big step forward on the 1930's sweater that I've been working on for months. I finished the knitting on it last night. Now I just have to finish blocking it, weave in the ends, and sew it together.

This pattern was not great. It had that feel that you occasionally get from old patterns that someone made the sample garment and then wrote down what they thought they did and no one really tried it out or looked closely at the resulting pattern to make sure it would be easy to follow. Here's hoping it turns out well when made up.

koshka_the_cat

I nearly got into an accident on my way home from work. I was turning left onto a side street with a green arrow. One car was ahead of me. An idiot red car on the opposite side of the intersection decided to turn right and went between me and the other car. I slammed my brakes and hit the horn so hard I could still feel the pressure in my hand ten minutes later. I'm lucky no one was behind me.

My car didn't yell at me that there was an obstacle in the way. Huh.

koshka_the_cat

Stupid little cold or whatever I have. It's been low level, I thought I was getting over it most of the week, and I am, but it's a little less low level than it was. I've had a whiny 2026 so far.

atherleisure

I started the second 1880's stocking and am 1" into it. Only about 600 rows left to go.

I blocked one sleeve of my 1930's sweater and will block part of the body tonight. I'm finished with the ribbing and about halfway through the stockinette section before the color change happens. I'm kind of hoping to finish that one up in the next couple of weeks. It's been going on for awhile.

koshka_the_cat

The temperature at work continues to be awful. After the last few days being in the 50s inside, today the heat came on and heated it to 73. 73 isn't bad, but the amount of blowing heat to take it from 55 to 73 is awful. At least I have a fan.

Hopefully tomorrow will be tolerable

koshka_the_cat

My 30s hat came today and it's perfect! I think it's new old stock. Now to start thinking about making the dress...

koshka_the_cat

I feel better today than yesterday, but I definitely don't feel great. I'm glad it happened on a three day weekend. Work tomorrow will be fine. And if not, I'll go home.

atherleisure

Here's where I left off last week:

And here's where I left off this week:

The unfinished area on this part of the chart is less than 50x30 stitches. I'm hoping to finish this quadrant this week. It's not infeasible.

koshka_the_cat

I hope I'm not coming down with something. I don't feel great and I've napped twice today. I'm so glad it's a three day weekend!

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I don't suffer from insanity,

I enjoy every minute of it.

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Finishing Up

But...

Long day

Pattern gluing...

Bathing Bag Started

I worry about myself sometimes...

Ugh

Buttonholes

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Weekend...

I think...

Big Step Forward

Huh

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