alteredzed | Not Managing to Achieve

Even a “Good” level of blogging. I somehow managed to miss August entirely.

Our summer was hot and stressful, with lots of unexpected happenings. Some of which were really freaking expensive, so that just adds another layer of stress to it all. Here’s hoping life is calming down and we get back into some sort of routine.

In between events I did keep busy with projects. I managed to sew 3 tops, a blouse, a sundress and 3/4’s of a second sundress (don’t have the right size zip to finish it). I knit a lot less than usual over the summer as it was sooooo hot, knitting was often uncomfortable. Still I managed 2 pairs of socks, a tee-shirt style pullover and a tank top.

I did get distracted from garment sewing by quilting. I need to make a new cover for my duvet, but decided it would be more fun to do a piecework top for it, rather than just plain. I haven’t found the fabric/pattern I want to use for that, but in my stash diving I resurrected a project from about a decade ago! I was working on that and was making great progress when my sewing machine experienced a catastrophic failure. Sigh. It’s going to be a while before I can save up enough to get that fixed. That is if it can be.

Our library does have a sewing machine (and a surger) that can be borrowed, so I might see about that in the mean time. Might also see what I can find in our local antique/secondhand/junk shops. I did look at Kijiji, but man people have unrealistic ideas on price! Unless they are rare/unusual old sewing machines are not worth that much. And pricing a machine that you picked up at Wal-mart a few years ago for more than what they cost new today is just stupid.

Question Of The Day:

September, 21 - Have you ever traced your ancestors? How far back can you go?

I haven’t, but a paternal family member has and they were able get us back to the first appearance of the family name in Canada. I don’t remember the date, but it was before Canada was a country. With that information they were able to go back quite a few more generations in England, even discovering some distant cousins. What they haven’t been able to do is find much on our Cree ancestors or find the link back to Ireland. We know the name is Irish, but our branch of the family just sort of showed up in an English town, with no indication of how/why.

No one on the maternal side has had a similar deep interest in genealogy. A few attempts have been made, but language barriers and the misspelling of names with immigration complicated thing beyond what anyone was interested in tackling.

Zed

P.S. It’s a very nice day today, 16C (60.8F) and sunny. Nice fall weather. However, later this week it’s going to be summer again with highs in the mid-twenties (78-80F). Weird! We usually have snow by now.