Making Progress and Getting Distracted

This last week has been hard work.  Darron was just recovering from pericarditis when he was struck down with a demon flu.  The poor guy was bed ridden and quarantined for most of the week.  So I've been solo parenting, which of course means both kids got injured!  Joss got her leg stuck in the ladder at the swimming pool, then Coen jarred his knee pretty badly at school, requiring the dreaded call from the school office to come deal with my injured hysterical drama llama.  So I've been nursing the sick and tending to the injured all week.  But that hasn't stopped me from getting some of my stuff done.  Actually, if anything, getting stuck into making stuff has kept me on an even keel.

Last weekend I went fabric shopping in my mum's amazing stash and came home with a boot load of beautiful fabric.  Then on Monday, before Darron suddenly went downhill, he and I went shopping for some more masculine fabric to make some menswear.  We're working on something that I'm really excited about, and will share the details soon!

My Dahlia is coming along much faster than I was expecting, lots of evening knitting time at the moment.  The back panel and one side are done, and the other side is rowing out pretty quickly too.  How nice is this lace panel?  I can't wait to get it finished and blocked.

I have cut out my shirt for September, but haven't decided whether or not I want a contrasting collar and cuffs so I haven't started sewing yet.  Then I was preparing to cut my September skirt and my undies were riding up so I set it aside and started making new undies instead!  So now I have three new pairs of undies of varying waist heights and I did eventually get around to cutting my skirt from this amazing print.

Now that things have calmed down a bit, I'm going to rearrange my studio to fit in all this fabric and get stuck into some sewing!