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Spot the difference...

wednesday morning

Snow walks and blue skies. And now you are one.

October

After a lengthy seven months negotiation George has finally agreed to let me behind the sewing machine again, 10 minutes a day, on the condition I only make things for him...

So... A new quilt is in the making, to keep him warm on these rainy autumn nights. And beanbags!

george

6 months. 6 months. I wouldn't know where to start.

You like banana and sweet potato and pear. Chewing my fingers, kicking and grabbing and rolling and shouting. Bashing things, shaking things, throwing things. I carry you, I take you outside. We look at the trees, and the plants in the garden, I make plans in my head.

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George Thomas

born 17th Feb

What a month. My world turned upside-down. Beautiful boy, today he smiled at me...

friday

First week of maternity leave over, and it still feels a little bit like I might have to go back to work next week, but also mostly like this is what life should be like! I've eaten proper dinners and cooked nice teas, the dishwasher and washing basket are empty, and the junk room baby's room starting to look less like a recycling plant (maybe). It's also been so nice to be able to make things in the daylight in winter...

I'm knitting a cotton blanket/shawl for the baby, a pi shawl, and my first attempt at a circular cast on (4th time lucky!) It's slightly disconcerting that the whole thing looks like a giant unattractive doily-like hat, but hopefully blocking will rectify that, if I can manage it. And I have some mustard yellow yarn for the edging if I dare...

I've also been making progress on my long term embroidery project. I love the work of Moira Blackburn; the colours and composition and the history behind the designs too. It's fun to design my own samplers, but much more relaxing to sew one of these. Half way there...

A couple of quilts completed too (for gifts, so no close ups yet...)

And Coco is feeling much better now, she is good at helping...

saturday

Today is quiet. I've cleaned the house from bottom to top, swept the cobwebs off the ceiling (then got mud on the carpet, oh well) and now I'm sat with an hour to spare. Peace.

And I'm going to go upstairs and carry on the clear out upstairs in the soon to be babies room. Yesterday I got rid of all my cardboard stash (what, you don't have a cardboard stash? Lovely large pristine bits of corrugated cardboard, no stickers or dints or print or writing, just waiting to be turned into packaging or storage boxes or who knows what... but also taking up about half of the wardrobe...) Its gone in the garden to be used to cover the veg beds in spring, the half built veg beds, oh well. Perhaps I'm starting to accept I won't use these things I keep just in case; that its better to use them now or to pass them on rather than to keep them there and have to keep track of them in my mind. Maybe my priorities are going to change, I want life to be simple.

 2012 is going to be interesting...