50’s Sketchbook

Been busy today sorting out my administration and trying to find out if I have the appropriate kind of education to register for a bachelor degree. I wrote to the dean of the school I attended and asked his help. At the time, six months after getting my diploma, I received a letter telling me that I could upgrade it if I had worked for so many months.

At the time I thought it didn’t really matter because I had a job and I didn’t need to show my diploma, I never have actually. But since I’d like to register for this bachelor degree I need the upgraded diploma. The dean sent me a reply that he was willing to help and is sorting it out for me. I think that is very kind of him since I had no idea who to ask!

While looking for my diploma I found my mum’s sketchbooks, some years ago I’d asked her if I could have them since she didn’t want them. This is just one page of many and in the picture you can see her assignment: she had to draw a pattern from a fashion picture. She also gave me an awesome ’50’s and ’57’s set of bound women’s fashion magazines.

Treasures!

© Zesty Gal – Mum’s assignment

Knitting Fever

I don’t know what’s ‘wrong’ with me but I have been having a serious knitting fever for days now… I’ve had this particular design in my head of a patchwork cardigan coat with a nice large hoodie so I went to a local shop and bought all sorts of black and grey shades of yarn *so cheap!* and dug through drawers to look for remnant yarn that has been lying there for ages waiting for me to use for my cardigan. It’s gonna look so cool!

Every evening I watch the same show on T.V. and perhaps a movie if anything good is on, but I always feel like it’s a waste of time somehow to just sit there: I know it must sound insane but I feel I could make myself useful. So while I was watching last week, the urge to do so became stronger and the next day I got out and bought all sorts of different yarn to turn into a super dooper nice and warm patchwork cardigan coat :)

It’s extremely relaxing to do: it almost gets me into this meditational state. I’m eager to finish the cardigan so I can wear it asap now that the temperature outside seems about right *hehe* and the cold weather has come to visit… In the meantime when I can control the fever I’m also working on a presentation website: a design for a potential client…

©Zesty Gal Knitting fever…

©Zesty Gal Knitting fever…