Still Waiting

Well, after feeling sure that Bilby would be here by now (or at least, my first instinct was that Bilby would arrive today), I'm still waiting! And I'm still not feeling very patient:-(

In the meantime I am getting bits and pieces done, because I'm not feeling much like going out and about (and Grandparents have been coming by and entertaining Puggle!). For example, I've now finished the rug I was doing for my niece (Baby Girl)... I started it before she was born and she's now 8 months old! I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out, and I'm now using a similar technique to finish making a rug for my mum that was her birthday present from about 5 years ago (never mind the fact that it's Spring, and not really rug weather, at least they'll be done!)

I've even managed to empty a box that came from Paddington's kitchen when we got married... it's been sitting in our hallway ever since (well, since it moved from Puggle's room).

Baby Girl's rug took about 3 hours yesterday, the box of glassware took maybe 2 hours last week. Both of them were tasks I thought would take much longer. I'm hoping mum's rug is also only a couple of hours.

The real hold up is that I don't use the sewing machine when Puggle is awake. I was thinking yesterday that I should get together some activities for him that he is only allowed to use when I'm sewing, and that way I might get to sew a bit more regularly (I say as we are about to introduce a newborn into the house again... I know my timing is off!) We gave Puggle a cloth Advent Calendar for his first Christmas, and I plan to do the same for both Bilby and Baby Girl. Of course, there is a reasonable amount of sewing involved.

And I still would like to get Puggle's floor rug finished... and make one for Bilby!

So, working out how to (occasionally) sew during the day with Puggle around would be really quite helpful...

I guess, at least it's occupying me while we wait!