Honey, I'm home!

Posted by Alexandra at Studio Alexandra

Did you miss me? 'Cause I certainly missed you! See, what happened was... (here come the excuses, hehe) I went on vacation stateside with a brand-new laptop that didn't have my good old cookies. And my password reminder sheet stayed in Germany.
Sooo.... I couldn't blog. And I couldn't get into Bloglines to read everyone's blogs either. Well, now that I'm thinking about it, I suppose I could have just clicked on the ubiquitous "forgot password?" button but it didn't occur to me. Instead I took it as a sign that it's time for a short break from the internet.

I relaxed plenty, had fun, did some school assignments (not so much fun), spent the Labor Day weekend in Branson with my husband and his family (recommend Branson, do not recommend Labor Day weekend), met Marji who showed me exquisite fabrics I had only dreamed about before, went to a machine knitting conference, spent several days reminiscing with friends I hadn't seen in over a decade, and then finally flew back to Germany. In all this time, I drove well over 3,000 miles in my allt-ime favorite car, the unassuming Honda Civic (and I don't think Hertz will ever let me get a car from them again, hehe).

Now I'm back in Germany, trying to change gears quickly from wearing dresses and strappy heels in the warm sunny weather to whatever it takes to stay warm with daily highs in the upper 50's and lower 60's (it drops to 30's and lower 40's overnight). Sheesh!

As soon as I get over this jet lag, I want to get back into sewing and also some machine knitting. There was so much to see at the conference in Cleveland; I promised myself to truly master the knitting machine basics this year so that I could learn much more next year.