It's the last day of the first work week back home, and I think I finally have a grip on things. Most trip things have been cleaned up, I've made good progress with my trip doll photos, and I've started working on finishing my two Tedros commissions. I need to design embroidery patterns for the designs on the hood collars, then get to the beading. Fortunately there's no machine sewing yet, other than fixing a Hallowe'en costume or two, as my sewing foot is still extremely sore - not that I actually sew with my foot - it's the foot that drives the sewing machine foot pedal. I'm hoping it's not a repeat of the torn ligaments I had 23 years ago from the badly-designed foot pedal on the machine I was using back then. At that time I had to give up sewing my cloth dolls which were at the height of their popularity, and reluctantly make the switch to experimenting with the much more hand-work intensive polymer clay dolls. After switching the foot pedal on that sewing machine to a better designed one, it still took two years for my foot to heal. However my current machine is pretty much a "computer that sews" and we can't go cutting cords and splicing in a new pedal like 23 years ago. So, the last dozen or so commissions are now on hold as I wait to see how things develop.
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