So many hobbies!

Quite an exciting weekend

First of all, I drove to my parents' place on Saturday.  Dad showed me how to finish up the decorative detail on my chair:

The edging cleans up the edge of the caning, finishing off the chair and giving it a nice border.

As usual, I had a great time visiting with my parents.  Thanks again, Dad, for teaching me how to cane.

Sunday I picked up my new chairs and I'm so excited about them.  Well, I'm excited about the one that's not broken.  Here are some of the detail shots:

The caning needs to be replaced.  Another project!

 

The broken chair, however, needs a lot of work if it's ever to be usable again:

The rear, left leg is broken and there's a split further up on the inside that I didn't take a picture of.  The biggest break, however, is where the front left leg meets the seat of the chair:

It's kind of hard to see but the top of the leg isn't attached to the chair.  I hope it's fixable.  It would be great to have matching chairs because these are beautiful chairs.

I'm excited to have another chair to cane.  Now I need to buy some supplies!  How do people who don't have hobbies do it?

Look what I did this weekend!

I finished weaving my chair.  Next Saturday, my Dad will teach me to do the final edging around the seat.  Learning to cane was really fun. Now I can check out garage sales and antique stores for caned chairs with holes in the seats.  I'm hoping I can get them for a song then recane the seat.  What I'll do with them afterward I haven't figured out yet.

My Christmas prep is complete

Yesterday was the big baking day, now done.  I don't know why, but somehow 3 batches of cookies takes me all flippin' day.  I finished at about 10:00 at night.  Granted, I ran errands in the morning and went out to dinner with friends but still, 10:00?  But, they're done and now I can relax.  Naturally, I forgot to take pictures.  Sorry.

Today I drove to my parents' place and we exchanged gifts.  I'll save the picture of my main gift, from both my sister and my grandparents, until later this week.  After lunch, my dad and I worked on the chair I'm caning:

Now that I'm working on the oblique weaving, you can really see the classic look of a caned seat appear.  The chair came home with me along with some cane so I'll be working on finishing up the weaving, probably next week.  I have no idea where I'm going to put it.

Also finished this weekend were the temporary replacement stockings.  It took me three stockings and advice from a friend to get the cuffs right.  But, they're done and initialed and ready for filling.

The rest of this week, until I leave on Friday, I'll be cleaning my neglected house and kitchen.  I've kind of let it go and it really needs cleaning.  Joy.