I Pay Attention to the Weather

The husband teases me about watching livestreams of the weather, but I make no apologies. I like to know what’s happening. I was baking a batch of zucchini bread yesterday afternoon and had the Fox weather channel playing on YouTube so I could listen to the coverage of Tropical Storm Debby. All of a sudden, they broke to the Fox affiliate in Cleveland and noted that a tornado warning had been issued for Lorain and Cuyahoga counties. Lorain county (specifically Avon) is where I grew up. Cleveland is in Cuyahoga county. I switched over to the Max Velocity livestream and he noted that a tornado had possibly touched down in Bay Village, where one of my aunts lives.

It was about 2:00 pm here and I knew that it was about time for my mother to be getting home from work, so I called her house. No answer. I called her cell phone. No answer. A few minutes later, she called back from her cell phone but I could barely make out what she was saying. She said she would let me know when she got home. A few minutes after that, she called from the house phone and said she was was okay. She was on driving home on I-90 when she saw the storm just ahead of her. She got home safely and was heading down to the basement.

I’m seeing photos and reports of lots of damage in that area. My mother said there were branches down all over her yard and a tree had fallen across her street.

We had a few rumbles of thunder overnight and some rain, but nothing like what ripped through northeast Ohio yesterday.

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I spoke with the teacher coordinator for Sew Expo yesterday and we settled on a slate of classes. I am teaching six: an all day sweater-drafting class, a couple of 2-1/2 hour knitting classes—including one on helping knitters learn to “read” their knitting and correct mistakes—a 90-minute lecture on writing and publishing knitting patterns, and my thread class. The teacher coordinator suggested I talk to Wonderfil about setting up in their booth to do some demos after my class.

I am fine with teaching knitting rather than sewing. She said that only two applicants had submitted proposals for knitting classes and she wished she had more. (JC? I sent you an e-mail.)

I need to complete the submissions for the classes that were approved, but I’ll have less prep work than I did last year because most of them are ones I’ve taught before.

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The husband and one of our employees moved the new sewing table upstairs for me before they left for work yesterday morning. It fits perfectly into the same space as the old table. The new table did not come with an acrylic insert; I checked with the previous owner of the table and she said that she had it set up so that when the machine was on the hydraulic lift, the extension table that came with the machine was almost flush with the surface of the table. I set mine up the same way and it is working well, so I may skip getting an insert for it. I do prefer sewing on a flatbed.

I hemmed a denim skirt yesterday:

The skirt was the right length, but the bottom was raw. I guess that’s the trend. I prefer a more polished look, so I turned up a hem and sewed it using the jeans foot and the dual-feed mechanism. So slick.

I also knocked out another quilted zipper pouch:

I’ve been interfacing the linings with SF101 but I think I may switch to a lighter interfacing with the next one. The SF101 is a little too beefy.