Blah.

It's been a mostly (but not entirely) disappointing day. Last night I finished the heel of the second sock of this first pair, and was starting to cruise up the cuff, when I thought I'd made a huge mistake - I thought somehow my stitch count was off. I couldn't seem to figure it out last night, and company came over, so I put it away. Today we had company again, and it was evening by the time I got around to messing with it again. After way too much time trying to figure it out, moving stitches back and forth between needles, and unknitting half a row, I finally got it fixed. I don't know exactly what I did, but - it's fixed now.

I'm back on track tonight and about halfway through the cuff, but I'm really - really - tired and not planning to finish it tonight.

So I'm a little off schedule. My plan had been to finish this pair Friday night, so I could mail them Saturday morning, and so I could spend all day today taking a sock break and working on other projects. Had I actually done that, I think I could have knocked a few smaller things right off the list entirely, and been done with them - if not in just Saturday alone, at least in Saturday and Sunday both.

Unfortunately, that didn't happen. I stayed up way too late last night (and, okay, had a bit too much rum), so I was really tired, energyless and unmotivated all day today. As it turns out I got nothing done except fixing the sock, and doing 25 or so rounds of the cuff.

Oh well. Life goes on. There's still tomorrow, which will be a better day energy-wise, as I took a nap today, and am going to bed shortly. (and had no rum tonight)

What I hope to accomplish tomorrow is: putting the side strips in the green dress (project done); making the two t-tunics (project done); making a few headwraps (project done, depending on how many I get made). That would be a pretty good swath cut through the list. We'll see how it goes.

Of course, that's not good enough, I'm adding new projects. The neighbor has a cabin tent which I really liked - I like that style way better than my other tents, and wish I'd have gotten one of those instead of the several different dome-style tents I've bought. I like them better for several reasons, not least of which is that they look the closest to a medieval pavilion in a modern tent - square, with a peaked roof, you know.

He'd mentioned wanting to get rid of it, and since I can't get a pavilion this year, I told him I might buy his. I set it up in my yard today to check it out, and I think I'm going to get it. It's a little smaller than my other tents, but I plan to take less this year anyway, so I think I can manage. Then Greg came up with a good idea I'd like to try - sewing a canvas "cover" for the tent, basically just a simple structure that drapes over the external frame, ties on in a few places, and gets staked down. Done well, it could 'medievalize' the tent at least a little. And with a little more planning and sewing, I could even create a canopy front porch for it, as well.

But that's just another sewing project I don't know if I'm going to have time for, so ... we'll see.

But for tonight, I'm off to bed.