Tie One On - August

I really like the "Mini Me" theme for this month's Tie One On. I had planned on making this apron anyway, and this way my daughter gets one, too. I used the Amy Butler Reversible Cafe Apron pattern. I don't do a lot of sewing, so parts were a little tricky (the topstitching around the waistband and ties), but overall it went pretty well.

This is our homage to the pictures on the front and the back of the pattern:



I also found that my daughter's apron makes a good short apron for me:



I'm glad to have the motivation to make these and I'm excited to see what next month's theme will be!

It's About Time

A lot has happened in the past few weeks. I baby-sat my nephew while he was between daycares, which was fun, but between him and my daughter nothing else got done. I applied for student teaching which, provided they want me, should begin in mid-September. I'm (most likely) moving into the house that was my grandmother's. That is very exciting. The house is tiny and hasn't changed at all since about 1950 or so. So I have been very nesty, sorting and packing and purging belongings. I also made kind of a lot of things. Here are a few, a basket bag for me:



The best socks I have ever knitted:



Those were very fun and never got boring. I was actually happy to knit the second sock. And I recovered my grandma's kitchen chairs to match her kitchen table that I have. (That was an awkward sentence.) Recovering the chairs was not easy, but they turned out okay.



(I had to take the pictures in my daughter's room, because hers is the only one that gets any light in the morning.)

So, if all goes well, there should soon be some "before and after" house pictures. The carpet in the living room is about 40 years old, but there should be pretty wood floors underneath, so the carpet will be first to go.

I plan on more blogging, but I will have to decide on posting days, I think, otherwise I spend way too much time on the internet pining over everyone else's beautiful things instead of making my own. I did make one apron for this month's Tie One On, so I have two days to finish the second one.

EDIT: I used the Stashbuster Spirals "jogless spiral stripes technique" with my own sock pattern.