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I crafted. Friday was long and it was just a rough week with work and things. Performance reviews etc. I was just done by the time things were at 4pm. I wanted some sewing things on Youtube and knit. My brain was toast. I did make a really good dinner of bean and ham soup along with getting groceries (milk and veggies).

Saturday we didn't have HIIT so I slept in a bit and had the morning to myself with the boys at the dojo. Got my saturday ritual shower done and settled in for classes at Rhinebeck which was a heck of a lot of fun. I took two from Deborah Robson who was part of the team to write and edit the Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook. Her class on the odyssey of the book coming to being was amazing and the class I took on the structure of wool was really interesting as well. She got down to the biological level with the strands and it was neat. I then took a class with Alanna Wilcox who was fun to hear about drafting and why would or wouldn't do certain techniques. She had great visuals and multiple cameras to help see the fiber and the samples she showed for thing knitted up were cool. i learned a lot.

After my classes finished I headed to Paul's to meet his soon to be son. It was super nice minus other folks having just been to another party (ugh). We are staying home for a few weeks just to make sure things are okay. But Skylar is pretty cool and I think he will be a good fit for Paul.

Sunday I slept way in and then did some reading before working on the serk mockup. I'm still fighting with the neckline and I may call in Wander for some help over facetime. Its just weird with my shoulders and lats. Le sigh. I'm trying to figure out why they would do this for the neckline at all and can't quite figure it out. But its a mockup for reasons.

You can see it pulls on my neck at the back. Hmmmm.

I then made dinner of turkey sausage stuffed squash and you know you are doing things right when the kiddo sees whats on his plate and goes "oooh squash!" he didn't complain about the fact I used spicy sausage either...just got another glass of milk. Woot! After dinner I sat at my neglected spinning wheel and chain plied my yarn I spun in May. I over plied it so that will be interesting to see what it does in teh skein. I'm letting it rest and then will skein it up and wash it and thwack it a bunch. That will be tonights project along with some sewing and maybe some calligraphy. I have a few scrolls that need that.

Its finally starting to get below 70 at night which means by the weekend we should be at doors open at night. Its been cool enough in teh mornings to pull the bed spread up and use it. I am so glad I made that darn thing. I'm feeling better in the brain than last week. I had some good news finally at the end of the day on Thursday night and that was nice at least but still I think crafting was good for my soul this weekend. I knit on my hitchhiker which is turning out really nice. The colors are gradients and its now into the dark blackberry heading towards black. I'm going to knit until the last drop on this skein.

I also painted my toes in cute pinks and sparkles cause why the heck not!

And then to cap the weekend off I stayed up way too late to finish up book 43 of the year Clockwork Crown. It was really good.