A Few Sheep Shy of a Farm

This moring was another Drs apt.  They are coming faster and faster as we near the end of this . . .

Everything seems fine.  I’m growing right on schedule with the belly measuring out at the 30 cm it should be at 30 weeks.  I didn’t gain any weight in the past 3 weeks, but since I gained double last visit (4 lbs in 2 weeks, yikes!) and I’m otherwise growing normally the Dr said that is fine.  That means I’m still up 20 lbs from the prebaby start weight, which can seem like not all that much or a ton depending on how you look at it!

After I left the Drs, and since I was totally alone for the appointment this time, I decided to take a brief detour (afterall I was in the neighborhood) and head over to Lady Grace and finally be measured for new bras! That is one of the fun parts of being pregnant – all your sizes – from the shoes up are likely to change! So it turns out that I was wearing the wrong size and type of bra and after being measured and fitted by the very nice lady who works there I can say for the first time in I can’t remember how long I have underthings that both fit and are comfortable.  What a difference!

Not only do I know what size to get – but that some companies run either larger or smaller and how to tell if the silly things fits properly.  Now I just have to plan to go back in a few months, after the baby is born and do it over again – ’cause, you guessed it, delivery will change the size yet again!

The knitting hasn’t changed.  I’m basically down to baby stuff and some socks and mittens but I wasn’t feeling well last night so I didn’t really do any and I don’t know yet if I have a sitter for tonight to go to knitting group but we’ll see what the afternoon brings . . .

Alrighty, enough playing “hookie” and back to the paperwork I’m suppose to be getting done right now!

I watched this show last night on PBS, its playing several more times in the next few days.  I don’t normally get into shows about how people spend thousands (or in this case, sometimes hundreds of thousands) of dollars on clothing . . . but somehow, I couldn’t change the channel.  Pehaps it was the way it was presented, but there was something utterly facinating about watching the process that the designers go through to get these few pieces of clothing to the handful of people who will ever wear them.  The detail that goes into the construction of a single piece was incredible . . . watching someone embroider delicate motifs on to a bit of fabric that will become a skirt or hand stitch feathers to a dress that they follow the creation of from sketch to a spread in Vogue. 

At one point in the show they mentioned that the average garment requires something like a hundred and fifty hours of handcrafting to become what you see on the runways.  I couldn’t help but think, how many of us who knit spend that much time on a sweater? Does that mean in some ways our finished projects are in some way related to Haute Couture?