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Goodbye February

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 Why is it that working from home makes for longer hours?   It seems I finished the purple socks AND sent them to their recipient without getting a picture, but I did finish them.  There has been quite a bit of sewing.  Back when I bought my first house, I made several sets of placemats using a fan pattern with doilies.  At the time, I never made more than 6 for a set because my table only had room for 6 people, there wasn't room in the house for a bigger table, and nothing in life ever changes, right?  A marriage and two houses later, I did find the remaining fabric and apparently the only remaining doily that will match the others, and made two additional placemats.  An in-progress shot: Not realizing I had the material or doily to make them, last fall I'd ordered fabric to make a new set, this time TWELVE with 15 matching napkins, because what isn't fun about hemming? (besides all of it).  Sometime in the last 18 years the original doilie...