It’s time for another LJ-ish post. How are we doing?

I finished the copy edit on Friday. Had to skip drawing class to get it done. I would have finished over the weekend, but when I saw it was going to be in the high 30s I figured I best get it done before sleep deprivation set in. I didn’t mind to much, though. We were going to have the same model as last week, and though he stands very still his face tends to move a lot, which is fine for life drawing but not great for portraiture.

Yesterday we went to the baby shower for the friends I’m weaving the baby blanket for. The invitation was a big push to finish the warping, even though I knew that, with only two week’s notice, I didn’t have had a chance of finishing it in time. The reason I’d stalled was I needed to make and tie on about 80 string heddles. The making of them wasn’t going to be good for my hand, and my back was too sore for leaning over the loom to tie them on.

But then I did a search on the internet and found a different way of tying the heddles on, where they could be mostly made away from the loom, and the bonus is they can be easily removed again instead of cutting them off. Once I’d got over the head spin/sore back thing I had last week I got stuck into making and adding heddles, finishing the warping, and by Friday I was able to start weaving.

Paul is back at photography school, which seems to make him both cheerful and anxious. He has some interesting ideas for his projects this year. I can see that he’s stimulated by working alongside the other students. Perhaps not that they give each other ideas, but in finding their own style and vision pushes others to do the same.

Building approval came through for the new garage last week, so we popped down to the shop and ordered it. I was a bit disappointed to learn it’ll be five weeks until it arrives. Still, I did predict it wouldn’t be done until March. We have to get the foundations done which, as so often happens with foundations if Grand Designs is to be believed, are going to be more complicated and expensive than they seemed to be.

Aircon in the kitchen still isn’t fixed, which is a big disincentive to cook on hot days.

I’ve also been having fun with the knitting machine, but I’ll save the details for a separate post.