no more counting
blanketing the ground in white
a new, fresh, clean world.
Day 13… not too far in, especially since I’m going for 365, but today seems as good a day as any to stop counting in the subject line because it’s getting old.
It’s been snowing like crazy since we got here on Sunday. We have a good ten inches, if not more, and it still hasn’t stopped for more than a few hours at a time. It’s one of those days where it would be so cozy to just sit inside and sew… but nope, I had to walk to class. Today’s snow was more angry snow – thick, heavy flakes and wind that magically blew at your neck regardless of the direction in which you were walking. But I still love it.
However, now that I’m back in my room (and fully exhausted from trekking through the snow) I have promised myself that I will finish my homework before sewing. I have one math problem left, some SAGES reading, and reading from the physics textbook that hasn’t come in the mail yet. But my day hasn’t been a bad one since, although I had to wake up before 7, I got to play with clay for 2 hours in my ceramics class. It was wonderful.
These iPod cases are the ones i made for myself and my roommate Hannah. They fit the most recent iPod Classic (and most of the older ones as well), and my iPod Touch. The pattern could be modified to fit a Nano. They have a separate headphone pocket, a velcro strap closure, and cozy polarfleece lining. I think I’ve finally come up with the perfect pattern, and I’ve cut out a bunch… hopefully they’ll get thrown together sometime in the next couple weeks.
As 2008 is drawing to a close, I have been quite reflective, reminiscing but also planning for the future. Today was a self-proclaimed Sewing Day, and I continued working on all the presents for my friends at school. 
I still have miscellaneous WIPs scattered throughout the sewing room, and as I worked I found many of these projects, half finished and rather wrinkled. I finished a bathroom organizer that I had started awhile back; it’s just a basic strip of fabric with pockets for my makeup accessories and such, so that I could hang them on the wall. It just needed a backing, and I added some ribbon strips so it can hold bobby pins. I’m an expert at finishing things much later than I would actually have use for them. But still, I think it’s cute.
The game is one of Ben and Andy’s favorites, and the little Sackboy is just adorable. In the game, you can dress him up in all sorts of different costume pieces, which can be collected throughout the different levels. He was hard to make, harder than those before him in the “Christmas plush” series, but he turned out all right.
This should bring some interesting google searches my way. But really, I’m not allowed to buy fabric. And really, I’m having problems with my self-made rule. So every time I buy fabric, I have to smuggle it past the roadblock in my brain, and let myself bring even more future projects into the house.
