Weekend Done List

One finished Reading Pillow for M8. (I have yet to tackle the piping as per Meg's pattern.)

One finished Reading Pillow for H (six on Friday!). It's being posted flat so her Mummy will stuff it for me.

I was supposed to do premmie knitting but I succumbed to the lure of the simple dishcloth instead. These are Grandmother's Favourites (check out all the patterns on my new favourite dishcloth site).

We watched March of the Penguins and loved it. We did housework. We got as far as putting seed mix into the propagators before the awful stormy weather killed the gardening mood. I've neglected both my overseas friends and my nappy sewing.

Today, while I sit watching the storm battering the plants outside, I mull over Mrs Pivec's Sing a Song of Now post. How do you snatch a little bit of time for the things you love, each day?

A wee hiatus

You know how you can slide off the edge of the blogging universe? Well, I guess I did, eh? Sometimes I find it hard to kick that 'overwhelmed by other blogs' feeling and do my thang.

This week I turned into one of those crazed "sewing my child's costume with an urgent deadline" mamas. Miss 5 was Laura Ingalls for a Storybook event today. The costume is far too large for her but as I was doing the irritating hand sewing part I thought that Caroline probably made the girl's clothing a few sizes too big to get the most out of them...and by hand too.

I also turned into a "must give a home-made child's birthday present" mama. I was finishing the hand-sewing 5 minutes before M(nearly 8) left for the party.

I love the Reading Pillow pattern by Meg over at Montessori by Hand. I am determined to make all of us one too.