Happy March

I always like March ... it sounds so 'springy,' like winter ought to be wrapping it up pretty soon. It made it into the 40s today, which is an improvement, but still not quite what I'd consider 'comfortable.'

I'm emulating a batch of dwarves today ... Sleepy, Grumpy, and Dopey - and we can add Scratchy and Fuzzy. I woke up at 4:30 this morning itching all over with hives. After an hour of futilely tossing and turning, hoping to fall back asleep, I gave up and took some Benadryl. It killed the itching in about 5 minutes, but made most of the day a real challenge. Any type of medicine like that makes me tired and sort of fuzzy-headed. On top of the lack of sleep, it made for a rough day.

It's 7:20 now, I'm in for the night, kicking back, just finished making up the menu for next week for dad, and the grocery list, and I feel mostly okay now. I'll probably pass out by about 9:00 tonight ... but at least I'll feel good tomorrow with a good, long night's sleep (if I don't turn into Scratchy again tonight and have to repeat the cycle).

I hope to get some work done on the Log Cabin tonight ... it's nice mindless work I can handle in this condition. I've worked on the pirate shirt a little this week, but it's not done yet.

I won't get back to work on the self-designed Mamluk tunic until the weekend, when I have a larger block of time. I want to do extensive embroidery on that project, and it's all counted thread work. I am trying to decide how I want to do that. I have a couple options. Make the tunic out of fabric-store linen (the affordable alternative to 'real' linen which is about $50 a yard); make the tunic out of the cotton I had in mind, but design an inset yoke made out of linen, where the embroidery will be; or embroider on linen, turn under the edges, and create a sort of 'applique' out of the embroidered piece, to be applied to the yoke area. I guess I'll decide that the next time I go to work on the project.

So that's all for now ... I owe Wren some snail mail, which I'm about to go write. If you're checking in, hi Wren, and I promise - really - snail mail soon.