Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Idle hands...


"Better keep busy, and the devil won't find so much for your idle hands to do"


I've been catching the train to Fremantle every day for work and have been moaning about the long commute ever since I started. Truth be told, it was less about the travel per se, and more about missing being at home with my two boys, feeling an extra 2.5 hours of travel time on top of an 8 hour work day was too much.
Anyhoo, rather than continuing to bitch about it, I now look upon my time on the train as a precious two lots of 40 minutes which is all my own. So, with my elbows tucked in as if I'm sitting at a full Christmas dinner table, I've delved into the world of embroidery.

I started with the Wee Wonderfuls Elf Stitchette pattern and have managed to complete both the boy & girl elf. The plan is to make them into Xmas stockings (yup, starting early this year).

Just as I finished those two and was in need of another 'on-the-go' project, I saw your del.icio.us tag linking to the Purl bee Sashiko Tutorial. Perfect! Two nights in front of TV and a trip to-and-from work and I've finished the embroidery on my bargain 35c onesie (photo to be inserted..).

It is so hard to find boy-appropriate crafts, so I was really pleased with this. The stitching is a little uneven (hmm... super stretchy fabric isn't the best for this project) & I ended up free-handing most of it (hmm... I have to invest in a fabric marker - the blunt china pencil isn't really cutting it). I'm happy with the end result.

So happy in fact that I've started another one this morning on one of The Boy's onesies. Bugger bugger! I got this much done before Daglish and then realized I left my thread at home. Bugger! I had to sit and twiddle my thumbs for the rest of the trip. What am I going to do on the way home?? Bugger.

I'll load up some photos tonight of the finished work. I'm blogging at work during (yet another) incubation with photos from my phone.

Oh! good-o. My timer has just gone off and I've run out of stuff to ramble on about.

1 comment:

  1. good for you. I'd KILL for 40 mins to myself these days...I write this with elbows out trying to fend off the boy so I can type with out his contributions: b bbcgbnmvgg..xzz...see what I mean! ;)

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