by Kat | Sep 22, 2025 | General, In This Moment
I had a very big epiphany recently… and it was for me a very radical one.
For years… decades? I mean how long have there been online pattern companies who sell a PDF pattern. A long time.
I am that person who would print out the pattern at home and then spend the better part of a day trimming and laying the pages out and then taping them together. It is a task that was easy to put off because I disliked it so much… why, I’d rather dust than sit and tape a pattern together… and I only dust when absolutely necessary!!
But I have some chambray… and I really, really need a few things to perk up my wardrobe… but the thought of printing out 133 pages and taping them all together was enough of a deterrent that I procrastinated all of August and most of September away…
Until last Wednesday that is. I took a gander at the PDF Plotting website and thought… what the hell, I will try it. They have a huge banner on their website that says if you “order by noon, ships same day!” Really?? I uploaded the two shirt pdf’s I had been procrastinating over. Uploading and check out took less than five minutes. I got an email notification that my “order had been shipped” a couple of hours later and the patterns arrived on Friday… wait, what?
When I think back to all the hours I have lost sitting and taping patterns together… sigh.
My Monday list now includes tracing off my size (I trace onto Swedish Tracing paper to preserve the original) and hopefully will have the pattern pinned and cut out today ready to make what will hopefully be a wearable toile!
Epiphany moments… perhaps the best thing to still be happening at my age! Happy Monday everyone!
Now for a reminder for all of you who are playing along this year with a word… next Monday, September 29th will be our day to gather together to share how we did in September! I am excited to share with you all as well as read how you did this month, so I hope you will join us! The link up will be up bright and early the 29th and will remain open until Sunday, October 5th.
by Kat | Sep 15, 2025 | General, In This Moment
… is time for action!
I have basically given up on using the 5Calls app… I don’t know about you, but while my representative is very eager to hear from his constituents, neither of my senators are. And my local representatives are both doing very good work in my area for me and my neighbors.
But!!!
Thanks to a bit of a power outage here on Sunday morning I spent a good bit of time “doomscrolling” IG and stumbled across Kate_forthepeople. So, yes, I am making calls this week to Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries to make sure they hear from me on the looming budget crisis. (My thoughts on a shutdown are that frankly it should be shut down, but I think Kate’s points on trying to claw back some power from SCOTUS is worthwhile to giving some votes to the GOP, if and only if there are some implementations of the exceptions clause in the constitution. (You can read more about the exceptions clause by Googling Article iii, section two… I am not linking explanations, but there are dozens. Suffice it to say, that in “olden times” congress actually used their power to set the cases before SCOTUS.)
You can watch Kate’s compelling (and oh so easy) call to Mr. Schumer’s office regarding the exceptions clause in the constitution below. She also has a Substack post where she includes more information and the switchboard number. She also calls Justice Alito an illiterate idiot… which made me laugh right out loud! Her Substack is absolutely a worthwhile read!
I hope you will join me in calling these two Professional Letter Writers this week and encourage them to get off dead center, stop writing nice letters and DO SOMETHING!
Happy Monday everyone!
by Kat | Sep 8, 2025 | General, In This Moment
It seems as if September turned off the summer switch… it absolutely feels like fall outside and the AC has been off for over a week now and I am not complaining!
Today I am pulling out the “fall decoration” bin from the garage and doing a bit of decorating for the season but first… there is some laundry (of course) to get started on! And the weather seems perfect for taking beauty shots of those baby blankets before I ship them off to my son and daughter-in-law.
I have also been deeply contemplating this space lately… I keep knocking its future about in my head and many days it seems to be getting closer to reaching its end. I contemplate on…
See you all back here on Wednesday.
by Kat | Aug 18, 2025 | General, In This Moment
August rain: the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. — Sylvia Plath
There has been some August rain recently here in the South Hills of Pittsburgh…which has been extremely welcome because things are dry, dry, dry.
August also dramatically takes away daylight… we lose 70 minutes of daylight between the 1st and the 31st… sigh. Although, those August rains coupled with slower sunrises have made for some beautiful orange skies on my walks last week. I will date myself, but as I amble about with Sherman, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds plays in the soundtrack of my mind…Marmalade skies are glowing around me and it is quite delightful. The birdsong has diminished on our early morning walks so that soundtrack has no competition! Ha!
May your Monday usher in a week that has some bright spots and perhaps some “marmalade skies”! See you all back here tomorrow with a stitching update!
by Kat | Aug 11, 2025 | General, In This Moment
August is sure Augusting! The warm hot weather and the humidity are back with a vengeance. I am doing my best to avoid it… early morning walks and then mostly hibernating in the AC.
Bonus, I can return to eating real food this week! Woot! Hello all the veggies and salads! I am planning to make the bean salad Vera shared last week… my mouth has been watering for it! I do love a good bean salad!
I will be back tomorrow with a stitching update!
Happy Monday everyone!
