Things are very steadily busy here. Slightly terrified by how quickly time passes, and a teeny bit scared of what I need to get done over the Summer. So I'm just working on slowly ticking things off at the moment. Over last week and on the weekend I set about tidying up mistakes and niggles.
Despite the great expense of it, our sofa has always had an incredibly irritating habit whereby the cushions slowly, almost imperceptibly, ease their way off the frame over the course of the evening. So you finish a film either almost on the floor, or wedged down the gap at the back. It's almost as though they are alive. So this weekend I sewed the damn things in place. One of the worst jobs I've ever had to do -- awkward in every way imaginable and two very nice curved quilting needles were sacrificed. But it seems to have worked (so far...) and I washed and pressed the wool blanket over it for good measure. So the doglet is very pleased to be tucked in and cosy.
The bread I've been making lately has been completely hopeless. It refuses to rise and splits badly. Looking this up, I find that this is likely to be the yeast, but isn't helped by shirking on the kneading. So I bought new yeast (now it's a potch to do with water) and did more kneading. Result -- SO much better! Lovely bread now, springy and light and very nourishing. So worth the effort.
Again, despite the expense of it, our flat has never met my other half's privacy requirements -- which are on a very high American setting. We are on the street, and our bedroom is at the front, to be fair. And my privacy settings are probably a little too low, being British. So I made these voile 'shields' for the window. Again, a total potch to do, but worth it. Very pleased.
This fabric is gorgeous (from here). Here it is, pressed and waiting to be cut out and sewn into a jacket. My first attempt at something so complex and ambitious. Will post results.
Roasted vegetable lasagne for tea last night, inc. aubergines. I realised suddenly, while thinking of something totally unrelated earlier, why it was slightly disappointing. I used self-raising instead of plain flour in the béchamel sauce. D'oh.
Hope everyone's weekend was nice and less tricksy.
Good work on the sofa. We use that horrible slightly sticky mesh that is for underneath rugs on wooden floors and it works quite well but it doesn't really stand up to toddlers jumping on the sofa. Although to be fair, my sewing probably wouldn't stand up to that either.
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