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Rainy weekends are fabulous times to get a bunch of crafty stuff done. Friday

mytheria came to do crafty stuff, and I managed to get a bunch done on that seed stitch bag I was working on a while back. The body has been done for weeks, but I don't like bringing i-cord on the bus, so it has been neglected. Well I finished one handle, attached it and started on the other. That just leaves the rest of that handle and the edge of the opening to go.

Saturday morning I woke up to the heat turning on. The heat stays at its lowest setting, but early on saturday I heard the distinctive soft hiss of it starting up. In a fit of productivity we started to get ready for the cold by working on energy saving projects. Using some stale rice we had around and some scrap fabric from my stash we made draft stoppers for the doors (the laundry room in particular is not heated but the door opens up into the middle of the living space). We also laid out and did some fabric calcualtions for the curtains I am planning.

We went fabric shopping to finish the curtains I had started a while back on sunday. The idea is that they will be insulated curtains, basically "window tapestries" according to Roger. Due to the fact that fleece was on sale, we ended up getting that for the central insulating layer (cheaper than both the rolls of poly fill which I am not a fan of and the cotton batting, which was additionally thinner). Unfortunately the backing material for them did not come on a wide enough role, and the only stuff that was wide enough was exponentially more expensive and uglier.

Also this weekend I made up a pattern for slippers for Tab. She needs them for daycare to keep her socks cleaner and feet warmer since they remove their shoes at the door. Only when I started googling knitted slipper patterns, all I could find were incredibly ugly ones. So what I made was basically a variation of a socklet. They are so cute! She chose this baby blue soft acrylic from my stash though, and they look disturbingly like baby booties when she isn't wearing them. When they are on they look sort of ballet-shoe-like. Pictures may be posted later after I finish binding off the second one.