tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21871540049462940162024-03-05T22:11:22.550-07:00A Little Yarn On The Side<br>
2022 Goals: 52 Finished Projects
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1806125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-1979755962659175232023-11-12T07:16:00.001-07:002023-11-12T07:16:17.386-07:00Whew, It's Been A While.<p>Wow - more than a year. </p><p>I am still crafting - lots of chemo caps knitted this year, but I'm also still learning to quilt. This,</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdQh2BA0ObqhhMw0qevuiXPndhdLGc5lhWOPvFPNFzc8anL2Ca06iPA9rZj0K2lUUR9UZvZGtcDNfnQi2ODonZiKS8w9sA1YFTu0hHTMkGXFuSyGHGNLyD7vyvmm-gnvM5E27VvDCFU3-fCetm_4wEM9fvJ46mm7XsQ3F0WfbTwB-WmcF2RyG9yFj9KAs/s4080/IMG_20231020_125853127_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdQh2BA0ObqhhMw0qevuiXPndhdLGc5lhWOPvFPNFzc8anL2Ca06iPA9rZj0K2lUUR9UZvZGtcDNfnQi2ODonZiKS8w9sA1YFTu0hHTMkGXFuSyGHGNLyD7vyvmm-gnvM5E27VvDCFU3-fCetm_4wEM9fvJ46mm7XsQ3F0WfbTwB-WmcF2RyG9yFj9KAs/w242-h320/IMG_20231020_125853127_HDR.jpg" width="242" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">is one of a set of table runners after I made a huge mistake on what was going to be a quilt. Whoops. That's twice I've done that. I'd show you the other set, but blogger isn't letting me upload any older pictures. I can show you this,<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaiPcx6zDa7mJIhyphenhyphenTha-Ni28Bp1BqBwnhuFSbaWXQRhTKU2FnAZ51t0gnbC1A1iLSOatQEdp7rUtv3_bYg_JkYF7dGllL2_644uaq_Yr9-Izhu6aAivOJpAe-7Wn9qW1D7w8UlAtvMdtt5_wUo1C4MWyoCi7Msh-nXPyEIYy1lmC9ZqpS3Ywno8ivsiMi/s4080/IMG_20231014_141253152_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaiPcx6zDa7mJIhyphenhyphenTha-Ni28Bp1BqBwnhuFSbaWXQRhTKU2FnAZ51t0gnbC1A1iLSOatQEdp7rUtv3_bYg_JkYF7dGllL2_644uaq_Yr9-Izhu6aAivOJpAe-7Wn9qW1D7w8UlAtvMdtt5_wUo1C4MWyoCi7Msh-nXPyEIYy1lmC9ZqpS3Ywno8ivsiMi/s320/IMG_20231014_141253152_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">which is from a kit and is one of my new favorites.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This quilt,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTUZgTM9uN2cpGPu-FI2aMcGxoeQ-jYJVdt6iLM0Ek9QEAnl4lxFi8OQ6xm1uXVv-EcL6g-yb4TlvQ8a-WVHVrbienoWKe0oXaPGGWxOUK5oL8GwLyM6h-yB3eV7lA3W9CTc9DuPro3YgwW5KFzUn-NgSkaDSRr5O-QwNhuWMyELwz7NRdaleFA-IjJ0g/s4080/IMG_20231028_095119703.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="2296" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTUZgTM9uN2cpGPu-FI2aMcGxoeQ-jYJVdt6iLM0Ek9QEAnl4lxFi8OQ6xm1uXVv-EcL6g-yb4TlvQ8a-WVHVrbienoWKe0oXaPGGWxOUK5oL8GwLyM6h-yB3eV7lA3W9CTc9DuPro3YgwW5KFzUn-NgSkaDSRr5O-QwNhuWMyELwz7NRdaleFA-IjJ0g/w181-h320/IMG_20231028_095119703.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">is my first attempt with a striped fabric, and is going to be shipped off to it's recipient today, who hopefully doesn't suffer from dizziness or vertigo. What I learned from THIS project is that stripes aren't always printed straight, and if they are, I certainly don't always cut or sew straight. Ahem...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am back to working from home. I had been the marketing director for a local air conditioning company, but it was a family business, and what I discovered during the slow months is that it was a nightmare. The owner can't let anyone else make any decisions. Left on my own, I was able to not only replace the revenue when they lost their biggest source of customers, but deliver a 20% increase in revenue over the prior year, even with only being allowed any sort of budget for 7 months of the year. Employees from other companies were wanting to join us because, as our vendor rep put it, I was making HVAC advertising exciting. So, the owner took my budget away and decided he would make all the decisions. So I gave my notice. Luckily it coincided with my NDA with the fiber optic company finally expiring, so I was able to take a few months off, then return to telecom marketing. I love working from home. The other day I had a flock of wild turkeys outside my office:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5HX5m2NPIgM06m7k3O-Fpj3dohSyANxFBLkRNbtpn357Hh9efmBCC8qg56dOwsrQZKpyiR5um5eVnkbMbcc6Qn_J6WV6K7HwBfTwsE015C_8khZP1Rtede53ET8iw0bAfyf6XbBNMEEWtH-FNUhw9o5vS79y6UXrAUOyS-oO416v7Zqo51BKYnRXc1n1/s4080/IMG_20231020_094546645.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5HX5m2NPIgM06m7k3O-Fpj3dohSyANxFBLkRNbtpn357Hh9efmBCC8qg56dOwsrQZKpyiR5um5eVnkbMbcc6Qn_J6WV6K7HwBfTwsE015C_8khZP1Rtede53ET8iw0bAfyf6XbBNMEEWtH-FNUhw9o5vS79y6UXrAUOyS-oO416v7Zqo51BKYnRXc1n1/s320/IMG_20231020_094546645.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The best part about the new job....I am in direct competition with my old company and my bullying, malicious boss. I would love to be a nice enough person to not be excited by the idea of crushing them, but I'm not. That wretched woman was mean and vicious, and instead of reprimanding her, they've promoted her. But, her lies to the company about her own incompetence have made them a very poor company with ongoing problems that never get fixed, so they are failing without my really doing anything. Stupid leaders will do that for you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Slide show time! This <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3I2aHfDiUxjv9szf_sZ0_4lCA0g99rTafIJ9T7JjGtCuIgSdlxky0dMpUmhDiTRS3oNWjzMI_fmtL0PG_fc-bpv-YMD56k2AL2HDbNk7HMBcklk_Io4m6oqvmolHN1KlAxIPDBKH1yO4tIBfVimTRaXZ7b-9MWNHpHAl5_XpSGSdvdX27pLHGtEeG8RP1/s320/IMG_20230612_204547173_HDR.jpg" width="240" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">was an experiment using machine embroidered blocks and trying to get comfortable with RANDOMNESS. Also, it turned out to be a real test for my tolerance for fabrics not printed straight, as you can see the plaid strips weren't printed straight. That drove me crazy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I made this pattern in blue, and loved it so much I immediately made a second quilt,<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3I2aHfDiUxjv9szf_sZ0_4lCA0g99rTafIJ9T7JjGtCuIgSdlxky0dMpUmhDiTRS3oNWjzMI_fmtL0PG_fc-bpv-YMD56k2AL2HDbNk7HMBcklk_Io4m6oqvmolHN1KlAxIPDBKH1yO4tIBfVimTRaXZ7b-9MWNHpHAl5_XpSGSdvdX27pLHGtEeG8RP1/s4000/IMG_20230612_204547173_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwEq0KwWv3eLC-dALNhyEmidjswSD5d4cXSo308z3-_y3KU3__0kqOWLtMIvbftYh0Pgk9uXaKgZVFGFF0gpyrrpPshWk13r5WpXUpoJnml9D5rI9MZ20I9XGIQskcXoZjeRm34wu9N6Hn9dGnyBxVto9Xt7ishQqTh49BDFM46_e5KfV23HajRsLN5ea3/s4000/IMG_20230531_192613466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwEq0KwWv3eLC-dALNhyEmidjswSD5d4cXSo308z3-_y3KU3__0kqOWLtMIvbftYh0Pgk9uXaKgZVFGFF0gpyrrpPshWk13r5WpXUpoJnml9D5rI9MZ20I9XGIQskcXoZjeRm34wu9N6Hn9dGnyBxVto9Xt7ishQqTh49BDFM46_e5KfV23HajRsLN5ea3/s320/IMG_20230531_192613466.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">which Charlie adores.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was really a challenge as the blocks are very stretchy as the edges are all on the bias, which makes them stretchy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KqqtArHeZyTCHSECerMz4_HQi9Tqx5gSSafVN0l9fJNfNa2R4Q8hlq0hewZZonKKOLOFMg6QqSTPI2oBkok9lHU9eYZmEq4oJ8qfDlxRplzCJPbsNTND7UqK9tpuiz6gLyZQmUVUxHzt5veCPEKs7mlNq4vd5h1w1-hvqcfSB4HkGmgYBzFSRYkEy6By/s4000/IMG_20230625_105941990.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KqqtArHeZyTCHSECerMz4_HQi9Tqx5gSSafVN0l9fJNfNa2R4Q8hlq0hewZZonKKOLOFMg6QqSTPI2oBkok9lHU9eYZmEq4oJ8qfDlxRplzCJPbsNTND7UqK9tpuiz6gLyZQmUVUxHzt5veCPEKs7mlNq4vd5h1w1-hvqcfSB4HkGmgYBzFSRYkEy6By/s320/IMG_20230625_105941990.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Let's just say that it can't go to a home where anyone knows anything at all about quilting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This one was for Andy's mother,<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOA0sVBsoItA7Rr9X9uGLdM6OXHYim5OU836Ssw3AmN_CwvmQO2Jrd-kA4uMgkTm2lxCv4syD-R0QEcueQsTuyGxL8WclBUOq-HnUFc8LzHKkpwytYBmObMtcEu-oNBLkAJWFgCHvmmkAuBKwguvDK5rhlRHJ8GW2jcoNM30KrRudpMtnMwrV_MujeieJ/s4000/IMG_20230630_082050968.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOA0sVBsoItA7Rr9X9uGLdM6OXHYim5OU836Ssw3AmN_CwvmQO2Jrd-kA4uMgkTm2lxCv4syD-R0QEcueQsTuyGxL8WclBUOq-HnUFc8LzHKkpwytYBmObMtcEu-oNBLkAJWFgCHvmmkAuBKwguvDK5rhlRHJ8GW2jcoNM30KrRudpMtnMwrV_MujeieJ/s320/IMG_20230630_082050968.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> who loves it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is a test run of a pattern BEFORE trying an entire quilt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUryrdDdaDLY6FhRU35aBRL7ME9MuAt6g7v3ZDbcMA3LNhhioqoOEXB5ytxCcZvII6jTorXtLTBmS-9220x0aTjcaWWYlKwOhiqSGgLmtG3_YvXRaCFIyGW5b1zJc0hJAdIm5o-kcgZPwYtB01UZUUIbN1SlThc-QXITgRzC5IywX4wP-k-8UYQFyZN3dJ/s4080/IMG_20230913_155902577.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUryrdDdaDLY6FhRU35aBRL7ME9MuAt6g7v3ZDbcMA3LNhhioqoOEXB5ytxCcZvII6jTorXtLTBmS-9220x0aTjcaWWYlKwOhiqSGgLmtG3_YvXRaCFIyGW5b1zJc0hJAdIm5o-kcgZPwYtB01UZUUIbN1SlThc-QXITgRzC5IywX4wP-k-8UYQFyZN3dJ/s320/IMG_20230913_155902577.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>See how much I'm finally learning?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is a pattern that should never, ever, ever be attempted:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8e4REqUZ6QVgEM7O2tBFKTdhH9ugGAKgYSvGgWtYPFlnxBnbflN51Ay_ykdxwPJW8ksgK8rZOTiH5D0suO4in96bCbR2RinB6dU-W9MfQlh3vFmLyWuIbNYcfrxES1UYXQzHvbiXmsNcnFgt-RhEDfsPxP5u5mPofUFDt9yLOT0e_VNzYvm0sscG4tO4f/s4000/IMG_20230711_201005667.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8e4REqUZ6QVgEM7O2tBFKTdhH9ugGAKgYSvGgWtYPFlnxBnbflN51Ay_ykdxwPJW8ksgK8rZOTiH5D0suO4in96bCbR2RinB6dU-W9MfQlh3vFmLyWuIbNYcfrxES1UYXQzHvbiXmsNcnFgt-RhEDfsPxP5u5mPofUFDt9yLOT0e_VNzYvm0sscG4tO4f/s320/IMG_20230711_201005667.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>That thing only lays flat through strategic ironing, folding, pinning, and much cursing. After that sort of abuse, I needed an easy project,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnfteOScQUBTJArpuA2eg9vSyJBRKMofq-ryJ9hJsILsUuZj2yPPlyFiVnUqhz9hakX3DSpEcGoOn0vG8V9VB9Bryw_tigqov-rNu7Fsd_LuZr5VS-SyVPxLsCWaDhLif7El4GKmzR3mhFFx_PhgW8TXKt4Q12dFlQhJyLGBTjD3k2lpD8VtdnXIDU9Pd/s4080/IMG_20230924_130148868_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnfteOScQUBTJArpuA2eg9vSyJBRKMofq-ryJ9hJsILsUuZj2yPPlyFiVnUqhz9hakX3DSpEcGoOn0vG8V9VB9Bryw_tigqov-rNu7Fsd_LuZr5VS-SyVPxLsCWaDhLif7El4GKmzR3mhFFx_PhgW8TXKt4Q12dFlQhJyLGBTjD3k2lpD8VtdnXIDU9Pd/s320/IMG_20230924_130148868_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">in colors I adore. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was made for an auction for an animal shelter, <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUtZN1LY3dExkyRU7gCmUmgXPWLgaHJEHYrKxt45PBjNjLue-virqOGbyiAoYPqG2NCY-Xlagpmv89i9zwYuD7aB7BijKKZQ7chQ23zUlOQTbXdtUu0A9NkNRFe9Dybt5AKNc6vSCaqh8wW8qUEwIS2O9hwlzxdtFyfwDuFoCjjrWBYWYgQJFu_azLYJmr/s4080/IMG_20231009_105533260_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUtZN1LY3dExkyRU7gCmUmgXPWLgaHJEHYrKxt45PBjNjLue-virqOGbyiAoYPqG2NCY-Xlagpmv89i9zwYuD7aB7BijKKZQ7chQ23zUlOQTbXdtUu0A9NkNRFe9Dybt5AKNc6vSCaqh8wW8qUEwIS2O9hwlzxdtFyfwDuFoCjjrWBYWYgQJFu_azLYJmr/s320/IMG_20231009_105533260_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>but sadly, only raised about what it cost me to make, so I'm not doing that again. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are my second round with this particular pattern. Again, I'd like to make a quilt with larger triangles, but I have learned to try things out in smaller form first to get the hang of difficult things, after a few projects that narrowly survived being fed to the food processor.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptqnFk31akwi4E9Sa7TrIcoGYe_8ALnMcO76am_7opXB567LHwIKKG1flVL-pOOuFmhOSVosvrKd8fL8q7YradSFggSYNE7QXD-VLdWTUlrzAcRmrCBIsvsqFx5kokM1lfHUzIj3nqmkvVka45Q6UNjYsvEFojVvqrDiQV6IBpuRbbj4A7wYrLhESkbf7/s4080/IMG_20231014_094025036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptqnFk31akwi4E9Sa7TrIcoGYe_8ALnMcO76am_7opXB567LHwIKKG1flVL-pOOuFmhOSVosvrKd8fL8q7YradSFggSYNE7QXD-VLdWTUlrzAcRmrCBIsvsqFx5kokM1lfHUzIj3nqmkvVka45Q6UNjYsvEFojVvqrDiQV6IBpuRbbj4A7wYrLhESkbf7/s320/IMG_20231014_094025036.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>There have been more Spicy Spiral runners, including this one, <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Fc3OFzj-EfUOGgBlBq2jZa5D1E19H5L6hkiohTfcoqJ88LWNCG9ATYemcj0wcxrQY0wpQC41cpaQinVTDzKsGF81LytADi7Lj5k9c0NTUglArywocfaSvoPVlQC4aGJ4ND7RBvvPQ6HKJLXHKE0mmZjFXX8aK0W5nCCRwT6Ze5IsyNxnpoHnEmB-JrhK/s4000/IMG_20221216_181606783.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Fc3OFzj-EfUOGgBlBq2jZa5D1E19H5L6hkiohTfcoqJ88LWNCG9ATYemcj0wcxrQY0wpQC41cpaQinVTDzKsGF81LytADi7Lj5k9c0NTUglArywocfaSvoPVlQC4aGJ4ND7RBvvPQ6HKJLXHKE0mmZjFXX8aK0W5nCCRwT6Ze5IsyNxnpoHnEmB-JrhK/s320/IMG_20221216_181606783.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">where I either inadvertently switched the strips or where the variegation in the fabric created a more uneven center. I still love the colors, and gave it to a very dear friend for her 80th birthday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I made this for my parents, <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Yz4aTuW9zmoZA_ZO4klu0_CHCCPfvuCmYIboGfcZj17ygx3lHA9VR-eEYpdpUcT96gShqR7fcYTaLw5zLaqvrp-w82aoeHmPHggMlVXsjOB5PFnXUIy_L5Ne7tWSs8KXocDNcMQWWctkrOXZ7Fm4msjhTdmUVjBqeRCN5EyFbVMsj3nww2KDWspnNmt3/s3620/IMG_20221216_213835464.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3620" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Yz4aTuW9zmoZA_ZO4klu0_CHCCPfvuCmYIboGfcZj17ygx3lHA9VR-eEYpdpUcT96gShqR7fcYTaLw5zLaqvrp-w82aoeHmPHggMlVXsjOB5PFnXUIy_L5Ne7tWSs8KXocDNcMQWWctkrOXZ7Fm4msjhTdmUVjBqeRCN5EyFbVMsj3nww2KDWspnNmt3/s320/IMG_20221216_213835464.jpg" width="265" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">this for a friend going through some health issues,<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhV1S0i_a8HcuJGJD_uy_6sjhHZDHwpyM5mdsizbR4k45w1ccKMtdUwid9TNXlJ6scqhEjyKPZTOznj8rM7rHb1-HWYmB398NncaWdFhqHsR2sdiGaOe_GOG-B_qmI0SaeAdghuZgMWuNKvnlorTlqUhzZ8PA0vPmDj8w8CFh9B9BmdKZoHvMltJFNK8k/s4000/IMG_20230211_172356105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhV1S0i_a8HcuJGJD_uy_6sjhHZDHwpyM5mdsizbR4k45w1ccKMtdUwid9TNXlJ6scqhEjyKPZTOznj8rM7rHb1-HWYmB398NncaWdFhqHsR2sdiGaOe_GOG-B_qmI0SaeAdghuZgMWuNKvnlorTlqUhzZ8PA0vPmDj8w8CFh9B9BmdKZoHvMltJFNK8k/s320/IMG_20230211_172356105.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and restocked my supply of chemo caps. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOV2qX9KeqLW8VmIqhuDw2M-tcelGeNuQ5lCh-dOiY47bWGvPtcri7nyS2cFP7TDGtWrZsCDbwvM8SMoL-titJGqUxoxU3qZSvKBuvMvZmPf2oc0sy0a9ksvc1E5Lm3hMY1W_17hACLxzgl8wP6T21S1WxnfjhFtgrNvYMZ8IppGSUB7fPtKGx66uOY2_I/s4000/IMG_20230219_073439820.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOV2qX9KeqLW8VmIqhuDw2M-tcelGeNuQ5lCh-dOiY47bWGvPtcri7nyS2cFP7TDGtWrZsCDbwvM8SMoL-titJGqUxoxU3qZSvKBuvMvZmPf2oc0sy0a9ksvc1E5Lm3hMY1W_17hACLxzgl8wP6T21S1WxnfjhFtgrNvYMZ8IppGSUB7fPtKGx66uOY2_I/s320/IMG_20230219_073439820.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is my year to make Christmas gifts, so there have been a LOT of table runners,<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">lots of kitty assistance,<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Gr2pI0n6IBXMDEnu4I7yyoM_caJm558Ct7qe23LLNEFo_HAmGDcfJBad7E_HQ_bzMnBejLhMDjjJ0DqBaE2GKn59_Fwjf264rfmckmVa-kXhjzbClK0yx52pdJcHWjRXzRJ6E1BJUaJCUaWhJMmU9bKBAZiqG7osmKYsX4wcQk1bxjILiG7syLE265cE/s4000/IMG_20230509_131254836_BURST002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Gr2pI0n6IBXMDEnu4I7yyoM_caJm558Ct7qe23LLNEFo_HAmGDcfJBad7E_HQ_bzMnBejLhMDjjJ0DqBaE2GKn59_Fwjf264rfmckmVa-kXhjzbClK0yx52pdJcHWjRXzRJ6E1BJUaJCUaWhJMmU9bKBAZiqG7osmKYsX4wcQk1bxjILiG7syLE265cE/s320/IMG_20230509_131254836_BURST002.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">this very happy yellow quilt went to another dear friend for her 80-something birthday,<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzV2iJ5oLI0HcggVRptlCHCoytbKosxOPcBf-LerEBQDGvgK5_GE-SLlA9BrmYvfLrTAvtiIS3aTNJl1UFADfJhXzTYtsNkRvpRcuzOa32ZZFivEKquWtW2iZmjjyr7Z1KJuF7aye6IXA1ZeT4p3c3kBfuP0D2wbQ3MFkzkGxqljyvBJArWJvp04hUQGp/s4000/IMG_20230511_134912025.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzV2iJ5oLI0HcggVRptlCHCoytbKosxOPcBf-LerEBQDGvgK5_GE-SLlA9BrmYvfLrTAvtiIS3aTNJl1UFADfJhXzTYtsNkRvpRcuzOa32ZZFivEKquWtW2iZmjjyr7Z1KJuF7aye6IXA1ZeT4p3c3kBfuP0D2wbQ3MFkzkGxqljyvBJArWJvp04hUQGp/s320/IMG_20230511_134912025.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">while this one waits in the gift closet.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPfaDVYa0-ak-EjvSDarK4uT0ZCKndCQI9nEN2ebrlErcIuaVzEvYVHKNkGCeaqGR0Ge_ne9OTu4t9Wl-A7ujS7U6OCSBcbXbb1GJ3cpAx7bmt5UpLS4AzlKiQ1rRAN5W5p9KDodEk8ct_QYX3y-ZWpT8OpCSJFokKS3eZGtthH1ujDvnJA6Kcs6JMNX4f/s4000/IMG_20230531_064943046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPfaDVYa0-ak-EjvSDarK4uT0ZCKndCQI9nEN2ebrlErcIuaVzEvYVHKNkGCeaqGR0Ge_ne9OTu4t9Wl-A7ujS7U6OCSBcbXbb1GJ3cpAx7bmt5UpLS4AzlKiQ1rRAN5W5p9KDodEk8ct_QYX3y-ZWpT8OpCSJFokKS3eZGtthH1ujDvnJA6Kcs6JMNX4f/s320/IMG_20230531_064943046.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'd love to have a quilt for each of our friends, but since we have a LOT, it's going to take a while. Special birthdays, celebrations, and people going through a tough time are getting first priority, but I'll get to everyone eventually.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, my first test run of this pattern. It wasn't made in winter fabrics, but I think it looks like a winter decoration, so we're keeping this one. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqJpcfVNmx9JklBZpnZ0268oPxbodzzbCzo_5QcEzZFo3cMmYmBiVYgwBy35koSyNBUcptFgBx_bXi-wcENjG0EapwtP89ZBxSQQ8KjmocVxnub1I_I03yuI6wihbFdQWZYu5aYWm4FrEDZTolpkXlwgsX3fcE8CeOAg3AZSQgzoTCdn9CHsEPMmNA82n/s4080/IMG_20230903_164817072.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqJpcfVNmx9JklBZpnZ0268oPxbodzzbCzo_5QcEzZFo3cMmYmBiVYgwBy35koSyNBUcptFgBx_bXi-wcENjG0EapwtP89ZBxSQQ8KjmocVxnub1I_I03yuI6wihbFdQWZYu5aYWm4FrEDZTolpkXlwgsX3fcE8CeOAg3AZSQgzoTCdn9CHsEPMmNA82n/s320/IMG_20230903_164817072.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div></div>Now to start wrapping all of these........................<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-42541344758182557972022-09-25T10:11:00.003-06:002022-09-25T10:11:51.069-06:00I Found A New Love<p> 10-inch "layer cakes," which are 42 pieces of usually coordinating fabrics bought together as a set. I needed a break from "hard" quilting after getting the stained glass quilt top together, so when I found an <a href="https://youtu.be/jxC-0T5lXw4">easy pattern</a>, I made:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQMg-2oIx5mpDmiF2zpMfyPBpw1lGiZ0_PgRAA1wuyzKmlcJtOqQ65jghp3qj_h5-O9kggvah7-xi7FHHfY8vKCIAiY0jUXS3vTy9vtHS9VvV2bpqqCUEPP7B5sxsY8ZpY9URyywCSsB-a_eZSGff6GvBnzjTVtOJxpw66gBuUc59PDsLXLuqmcnDnQ/s4000/IMG_20220702_091135851.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQMg-2oIx5mpDmiF2zpMfyPBpw1lGiZ0_PgRAA1wuyzKmlcJtOqQ65jghp3qj_h5-O9kggvah7-xi7FHHfY8vKCIAiY0jUXS3vTy9vtHS9VvV2bpqqCUEPP7B5sxsY8ZpY9URyywCSsB-a_eZSGff6GvBnzjTVtOJxpw66gBuUc59PDsLXLuqmcnDnQ/s320/IMG_20220702_091135851.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2M2XNi7AB7PF5dqi1238REgJvo3TqyR3sKE5zS7F7JNj6F2ZW0izux-Cd0AuvtdlkrZI6sJ5ud4JgxaiOwOJ2bcdK4Ky8qbV6SfUsk7GGODe1i6gAxkzfekJsLt1SBTJbjze-1NHfxjqFBNrkXL0m0_-YuaWcIc8xtPC9udjnhsfVcq-eeCv01UxvEQ/s4000/IMG_20220709_125844003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2M2XNi7AB7PF5dqi1238REgJvo3TqyR3sKE5zS7F7JNj6F2ZW0izux-Cd0AuvtdlkrZI6sJ5ud4JgxaiOwOJ2bcdK4Ky8qbV6SfUsk7GGODe1i6gAxkzfekJsLt1SBTJbjze-1NHfxjqFBNrkXL0m0_-YuaWcIc8xtPC9udjnhsfVcq-eeCv01UxvEQ/s320/IMG_20220709_125844003.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>which I loved so much I made:<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6zLQeqYlAWTJdzM0KtObh69wbc7n9IzI-1YdUDbaaMOx_brdKDt1yf_YOBP9adfyuisk83iN-_J6ylPQJcTPKXckKVZ-w6UczWOdu71DVJqfx1sV5q-gsn_hwUwnnNGkw076eWBk6jAMykVc8Suld_0Ht4tG4SaOreFWFByxPx02jzJ1cJJ3q_J3pw/s4000/IMG_20220824_202504395.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6zLQeqYlAWTJdzM0KtObh69wbc7n9IzI-1YdUDbaaMOx_brdKDt1yf_YOBP9adfyuisk83iN-_J6ylPQJcTPKXckKVZ-w6UczWOdu71DVJqfx1sV5q-gsn_hwUwnnNGkw076eWBk6jAMykVc8Suld_0Ht4tG4SaOreFWFByxPx02jzJ1cJJ3q_J3pw/s320/IMG_20220824_202504395.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>and then I found a set of fabrics that was perfect for a friend having a rough year, so I made this one:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwNoKR5UXajUDUQ5NTsDDdRac3mJOgljbti8QhBiZNt6TD6zAU0HlIVmOOjNFu6Re909IWjDKAOWMuJ0VdQ4FXklF53U1noKO10GhWQ0xlUNAp6acScr4atilKp5Osmy7FwdT4cxSqr8GLiKi3DrXN5-kM8dGlrumAY382Rwv2pGa0lQJZFgc7VMQYA/s320/IMG_20220731_203411067.jpg" width="240" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Honestly, I didn't know there was such a thing as an "easy" quilt. I think I'm in love. And I <i>might</i> have found a new thing to develop stashing problems with, but that's beside the point...at least until I run out of room. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I did take a break to make some new Spicy Spiral runners,</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaFwnhkhtl2dqk5RCGCL9k85ah5WtC5TX3eqUZHQnG87gUjmttPs2CI9r_-0-SRpyZybwJ_f95RPnYhbDgw0nKPw-JVv9E0nSYxvkL0J4PdtCPTZ9ri_YDxFbvlkceRSlEY23BYefFu3-CbZcM-XhptOYlMoi1FS9p8XWG4ldoxR-aOEdxjvxVZquBA/s320/IMG_20220717_160323680.jpg" width="240" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaFwnhkhtl2dqk5RCGCL9k85ah5WtC5TX3eqUZHQnG87gUjmttPs2CI9r_-0-SRpyZybwJ_f95RPnYhbDgw0nKPw-JVv9E0nSYxvkL0J4PdtCPTZ9ri_YDxFbvlkceRSlEY23BYefFu3-CbZcM-XhptOYlMoi1FS9p8XWG4ldoxR-aOEdxjvxVZquBA/s4000/IMG_20220717_160323680.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaFwnhkhtl2dqk5RCGCL9k85ah5WtC5TX3eqUZHQnG87gUjmttPs2CI9r_-0-SRpyZybwJ_f95RPnYhbDgw0nKPw-JVv9E0nSYxvkL0J4PdtCPTZ9ri_YDxFbvlkceRSlEY23BYefFu3-CbZcM-XhptOYlMoi1FS9p8XWG4ldoxR-aOEdxjvxVZquBA/s4000/IMG_20220717_160323680.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzPWpDj99syb_0LxEDYZmnJrvIR6nKwLGXOZBB_DrQVD7Vp2V9PYZxM4GKngHXcnTTiyUZ0MwRcc9O4JEYmFqdz8q0BWoqDYmbZv0-P0gz8gBTKvZNGpJZDlZNyE1zotlKaNaK3iCrPIi8gFZG4PQ8vUgFCqOAmUGvNMZsshbEQ4-tFxmduERuZlMmw/s4000/IMG_20220716_091259043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzPWpDj99syb_0LxEDYZmnJrvIR6nKwLGXOZBB_DrQVD7Vp2V9PYZxM4GKngHXcnTTiyUZ0MwRcc9O4JEYmFqdz8q0BWoqDYmbZv0-P0gz8gBTKvZNGpJZDlZNyE1zotlKaNaK3iCrPIi8gFZG4PQ8vUgFCqOAmUGvNMZsshbEQ4-tFxmduERuZlMmw/s320/IMG_20220716_091259043.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaFwnhkhtl2dqk5RCGCL9k85ah5WtC5TX3eqUZHQnG87gUjmttPs2CI9r_-0-SRpyZybwJ_f95RPnYhbDgw0nKPw-JVv9E0nSYxvkL0J4PdtCPTZ9ri_YDxFbvlkceRSlEY23BYefFu3-CbZcM-XhptOYlMoi1FS9p8XWG4ldoxR-aOEdxjvxVZquBA/s4000/IMG_20220717_160323680.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Which have a slightly "scrappy" look because the batik fabric sets I used had a few pieces with color changing patterns, which look really interesting when put into the table runners. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next year is my year to make Christmas gifts, so I'm trying out another new pattern,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1P_DuxlvAZJEyXVaa2EwBl4Fu6ocT2xcESYZieXMZE0_7N2FvkI4GfloXWTyQKDqc4ikZcQxtgtrGAar5k-tlUrl8_sVFFnK10D5YHeU4sQ2jeAQRIDyP2rtWxw7LkvRQ5kns2Ljr7MZHx_LAfNw644wZeKDlX5RFmd88E80O5DA4XV__IeaVUlQFmw/s4000/IMG_20220921_182306786_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1P_DuxlvAZJEyXVaa2EwBl4Fu6ocT2xcESYZieXMZE0_7N2FvkI4GfloXWTyQKDqc4ikZcQxtgtrGAar5k-tlUrl8_sVFFnK10D5YHeU4sQ2jeAQRIDyP2rtWxw7LkvRQ5kns2Ljr7MZHx_LAfNw644wZeKDlX5RFmd88E80O5DA4XV__IeaVUlQFmw/s320/IMG_20220921_182306786_HDR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>which is again, easier than it looks. I love the blue and white and I haven't made a lot of "winter" gifts for people.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm generally a pretty conservative person with colors, so I decided to use the new layer-cake discoveries to play with more intense colors, so I'm working on this<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBi-2cG5OOmtmj8BcSAiJsXxf452n5dAfqLnd4vdubHJISj2LTwy4iTjHnnRsBYkPgJpG_dAztXsMDO_-BMNUZKwHJ-PUkw0G7gUiaajl7ngGqWvMVlEREwHkoGUKwzZNxQ_XikAGCI37H25YTj5dDAuBYkcFlLfjlAAnAquKvcMDbuiWMhjXrFN1FLA/s4000/IMG_20220802_192258612.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBi-2cG5OOmtmj8BcSAiJsXxf452n5dAfqLnd4vdubHJISj2LTwy4iTjHnnRsBYkPgJpG_dAztXsMDO_-BMNUZKwHJ-PUkw0G7gUiaajl7ngGqWvMVlEREwHkoGUKwzZNxQ_XikAGCI37H25YTj5dDAuBYkcFlLfjlAAnAquKvcMDbuiWMhjXrFN1FLA/s320/IMG_20220802_192258612.jpg" width="240" /></a><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p>made with a fabric set from Kaffe Fassett. It turns out this is MUCH harder than it looks. I don't know if it's because in spite of what he charges, these are pretty thin fabrics or because the bias squares are just insanely hard to work with, but it's a very slow process and is much more of a "learning opportunity." </p><p>Idaho had another record-breaking summer, and this time the insane heat continued all the way into September, which is unheard of. Thank heavens we put additional air conditioning upstairs in the sewing room because it's just too hot in the summer to be up there otherwise. It's supposed to hit 90 again this week, if you can believe it. </p><p>The cats are missing us both working from home, so are very excited when we do it occasionally,<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37yB8EgSyqZNqXVyv6NOGW1Z6muWk1OYbXvkcKgFXARkErw4x7IdFRTlrQdPKCZwZKB0mmVapqhD52ojwqFlvqH3iVWhZBlXOvbrAubIvMrzWTzWqLSJW9mzByMsRVc2uCtvgWEesW2aGG89tK9QA0FppQjZIHphxezW-sam2yGHbmob3jXSIHcDfKQ/s4000/IMG_20220824_141044734_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37yB8EgSyqZNqXVyv6NOGW1Z6muWk1OYbXvkcKgFXARkErw4x7IdFRTlrQdPKCZwZKB0mmVapqhD52ojwqFlvqH3iVWhZBlXOvbrAubIvMrzWTzWqLSJW9mzByMsRVc2uCtvgWEesW2aGG89tK9QA0FppQjZIHphxezW-sam2yGHbmob3jXSIHcDfKQ/s320/IMG_20220824_141044734_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>and Charlie is just generally excited about everything:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkeecSrnP0mv1YAkuVwHvfF0dqSupSduF331tOmIxfCsENfrp5xVbmfGLrFcd_cQosd9X13Y25HpV7i_B-30jvi2ZsuFk3B9ECwPJY113KTIxxDnWaLPKGNLRHxBsMPnM2hB5wysl3apL-bOBOktB5vYROHy59YMaE5znVtQdkD23VTduOwKmuRkciA/s4000/IMG_20220827_150927208_BURST010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkeecSrnP0mv1YAkuVwHvfF0dqSupSduF331tOmIxfCsENfrp5xVbmfGLrFcd_cQosd9X13Y25HpV7i_B-30jvi2ZsuFk3B9ECwPJY113KTIxxDnWaLPKGNLRHxBsMPnM2hB5wysl3apL-bOBOktB5vYROHy59YMaE5znVtQdkD23VTduOwKmuRkciA/s320/IMG_20220827_150927208_BURST010.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I bought a new bicycle this summer! Because of my hip problems, I hadn't ridden in years, but we got out my old bike and started very slowly, which worked reasonably well except that my old bike was a hybrid mountain bike, and being tipped so far forward was causing wrist problems, so we went test driving and...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIxty2Yn8H3B4U7v-ehEa7pLYpqOuuBdDlYkeUHgdM1O2T7ZwzH2IReP0dMUWSim1eJeQNepnDYmxSh-ULpkG9QVW-FvWE6xVf7rozCNfiUWUsgkaKyf4A_NuZHrTqKeZDPhPUkk7Dft72-_2ecE40SHkVNRX7Y8T0c0bB_V1GR4moqV_AQFBlrGnYw/s4000/IMG_20220827_152507608_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIxty2Yn8H3B4U7v-ehEa7pLYpqOuuBdDlYkeUHgdM1O2T7ZwzH2IReP0dMUWSim1eJeQNepnDYmxSh-ULpkG9QVW-FvWE6xVf7rozCNfiUWUsgkaKyf4A_NuZHrTqKeZDPhPUkk7Dft72-_2ecE40SHkVNRX7Y8T0c0bB_V1GR4moqV_AQFBlrGnYw/s320/IMG_20220827_152507608_HDR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>I have new wheels! We live within riding distance to a very long system of bike paths, so that has been a great new addition to our weekends, and now that the insane heat has broken, evenings!</p><p>In other news, we went somewhere together!!!!! During the pandemic, Andy traveled down to take care of his parents, and I recently traveled for work, but we haven't been anywhere together in years, so we took the week of my birthday off and drove to Walla Walla to go wine tasting:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-RUn7WTPX3ZcAFCDm3E-dP4ZsGhA7K4fl8Uc4dEdsnbwO0D1QjYxGmoGoeaVqTpkSp9WaqxQ_rMlPCmpSphZRcbVFaKftZtrYMZ4aDMgSXomuLXAJzA-icsB62OED79sQ3GNfebTIxYpSJYyzkKjIsF2-NbYTX-OQB-G5Dlt2_6V6VufkWXtXKAXpg/s4000/IMG_20220913_151313760_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-RUn7WTPX3ZcAFCDm3E-dP4ZsGhA7K4fl8Uc4dEdsnbwO0D1QjYxGmoGoeaVqTpkSp9WaqxQ_rMlPCmpSphZRcbVFaKftZtrYMZ4aDMgSXomuLXAJzA-icsB62OED79sQ3GNfebTIxYpSJYyzkKjIsF2-NbYTX-OQB-G5Dlt2_6V6VufkWXtXKAXpg/s320/IMG_20220913_151313760_HDR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4t7Mgs7Py6vPO5tXGNewxqAr3MPGVykcBixT6T1W85gudtWOf0L4PRDZlxp10kFEc2Za0Pn0_JqmDCVFZWdFcX9hdLxfHxwgQnEaJwhjsFeKXAlrLBdpoohO5GsBibMUtobZFZxhSQ1bWJrxK9ABcuPOSdFSCVo5VoGH_nGXBSXyBk92KON9kY_fvIQ/s4000/IMG_20220913_132035000_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4t7Mgs7Py6vPO5tXGNewxqAr3MPGVykcBixT6T1W85gudtWOf0L4PRDZlxp10kFEc2Za0Pn0_JqmDCVFZWdFcX9hdLxfHxwgQnEaJwhjsFeKXAlrLBdpoohO5GsBibMUtobZFZxhSQ1bWJrxK9ABcuPOSdFSCVo5VoGH_nGXBSXyBk92KON9kY_fvIQ/s320/IMG_20220913_132035000_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlnxoL1xvlaNClF5r-StjzDyKddaGOUgw5epuNOXpnmBCAOLySfS6aLaJkohVJTjSWKmyJQx4Z8wMG9xSZh0_jVLBImKd5LYRJzp05ebOufSMv2UyeK9ErQW2J6H9SuLFYkz3lbx9wnfeU2UNDdsX1An8ZLNXKxtKrFASMwj3rQ7M-P2ncJ697RutCQ/s4000/IMG_20220913_104840816_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlnxoL1xvlaNClF5r-StjzDyKddaGOUgw5epuNOXpnmBCAOLySfS6aLaJkohVJTjSWKmyJQx4Z8wMG9xSZh0_jVLBImKd5LYRJzp05ebOufSMv2UyeK9ErQW2J6H9SuLFYkz3lbx9wnfeU2UNDdsX1An8ZLNXKxtKrFASMwj3rQ7M-P2ncJ697RutCQ/s320/IMG_20220913_104840816_HDR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFRMTx-Vx51ReHhgfXJvpZzSSTz5wdYyGsckU9uOT27Du-Bh9Uq_G2sFFUFpZETVEliA4d52SRJ-qIP5D4ZqpMwpqkOZcTDqYwiWy5GPct5KplGwafLW23HRIdhLJA_edjK3ET3fDiIxOHPUQoM5bNmWFQ-7pA_nPXu7LZXKmLKuqUJTgIdob00jifg/s4000/IMG_20220912_151818159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFRMTx-Vx51ReHhgfXJvpZzSSTz5wdYyGsckU9uOT27Du-Bh9Uq_G2sFFUFpZETVEliA4d52SRJ-qIP5D4ZqpMwpqkOZcTDqYwiWy5GPct5KplGwafLW23HRIdhLJA_edjK3ET3fDiIxOHPUQoM5bNmWFQ-7pA_nPXu7LZXKmLKuqUJTgIdob00jifg/s320/IMG_20220912_151818159.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>We had such a nice time just being ANYWHERE else, and had a really fun time getting to know some of the wineries. Walla Walla is about 5 hours from here, and for a town of something like 30,000 people, it has 120 wineries. It's crazy. To be honest, I think most of their wines are seriously overpriced, but we had a fun time and it was nice to relax together. </p><p>Work is going well and it's nice to not have anxiety-attacks every Sunday night. We're having our 4th record-setting month, so that's exciting as the Marketing Director. It's been intense to learn a new industry, but that's also really interesting and challenging, so it was definitely a good move. I'm starting to learn the seasonality and weather challenges, and can generally count on snow when I launch air conditioning ads and blazing heat when I launch furnace ads, but it's all fun. </p><p>Hope things are well in everyone else's world as well!<br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-12305944100634917252022-06-05T18:10:00.002-06:002022-06-05T18:10:31.411-06:00We're Calling It A Milestone<p>This weekend, after months of moving and pinning and sewing, all of these, </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKwmvh90LRZ4LKt0o_TNsDEkNYn5xA8MhJ7oXXEQTSk9EdHTfvsTvxTFQrNTCNJlGl4je0T-i18DTHuxs_h3sNogse7yY4bjs32fcxdvukzFMwz7eQmdIGjR1iQCqDP7xLwKsfyBlee-ZPO66htTMTYhT2zsLZbefXFMIKGBECgkSySMCxM0ufkzDKQ/s4000/IMG_20220604_081941179_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKwmvh90LRZ4LKt0o_TNsDEkNYn5xA8MhJ7oXXEQTSk9EdHTfvsTvxTFQrNTCNJlGl4je0T-i18DTHuxs_h3sNogse7yY4bjs32fcxdvukzFMwz7eQmdIGjR1iQCqDP7xLwKsfyBlee-ZPO66htTMTYhT2zsLZbefXFMIKGBECgkSySMCxM0ufkzDKQ/s320/IMG_20220604_081941179_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>are finally together!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7EK2lo2f1s2MNrchzeSf22Yy_XaVBqtrORHQeByZ-Ztyw9_xF3sVVnbQRDOsYklkbMd5HYnJj2nM73GghzoQ1UOa9d3hGvM7MrYGfSlpcFHjzGQPpDmPRq39VkpBcq1Y-CBMkerlCTjIMi7P9LCKInCM_jlQ2J1IOehI4a6_vKhtFLK-2fjoqZ-7W_g/s4000/IMG_20220604_161436110.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7EK2lo2f1s2MNrchzeSf22Yy_XaVBqtrORHQeByZ-Ztyw9_xF3sVVnbQRDOsYklkbMd5HYnJj2nM73GghzoQ1UOa9d3hGvM7MrYGfSlpcFHjzGQPpDmPRq39VkpBcq1Y-CBMkerlCTjIMi7P9LCKInCM_jlQ2J1IOehI4a6_vKhtFLK-2fjoqZ-7W_g/s320/IMG_20220604_161436110.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>It's not done, and it isn't even an actual quilt top because I'm going to add black borders to it, but you know how you have those daunting projects where you feel the need to celebrate each step? This is one of those.<p></p><p></p><p>To keep my sanity, there have been some side projects,</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqd1Os7rtKJa3eC6oYZFJzSi8t-g54juu0fNWfHs0rDcWI6tNG9NIFsdpf_mW3oawzfx-nUlnKyK-xDXtRELFNrCHMUGxIqx1cquxDF7v86xUvnKUT1Z7CliHmnJFfZf9_iaQOSM4fIecuZ3-BhpJdim4Y8Nk0fcB7pgY9gtcjj5RJLuewnwzm8LpxjA/s4000/IMG_20220529_112403338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqd1Os7rtKJa3eC6oYZFJzSi8t-g54juu0fNWfHs0rDcWI6tNG9NIFsdpf_mW3oawzfx-nUlnKyK-xDXtRELFNrCHMUGxIqx1cquxDF7v86xUvnKUT1Z7CliHmnJFfZf9_iaQOSM4fIecuZ3-BhpJdim4Y8Nk0fcB7pgY9gtcjj5RJLuewnwzm8LpxjA/s320/IMG_20220529_112403338.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>because I pretty much used up my project monogamy button earlier this year. Honestly, I'm just thrilled that I got one at all. <p></p><p></p><p>It's been so nice to enjoy the flowers of spring since this year I'm not working such abusive hours. I love iris. Each time one blooms, I think it's my favorite until the next one blooms.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYu6h3AqieP1dIHT7SvGUUhuSid1_HO64AcYMqgeiffB8B0UDOIJ0srcOVqZxCur31E8RG1tvhSTIeGULptqF0iKK0yG9lobC_nYwoKjMyWIJ4wcqgy8hGalcVn2C45iTqmd7Lj0WNsU8qgbS7Wx0VmGbgeAczL_Co2__Be3UCXYk88HM_7qCJwiXew/s4000/IMG_20220602_083105992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYu6h3AqieP1dIHT7SvGUUhuSid1_HO64AcYMqgeiffB8B0UDOIJ0srcOVqZxCur31E8RG1tvhSTIeGULptqF0iKK0yG9lobC_nYwoKjMyWIJ4wcqgy8hGalcVn2C45iTqmd7Lj0WNsU8qgbS7Wx0VmGbgeAczL_Co2__Be3UCXYk88HM_7qCJwiXew/s320/IMG_20220602_083105992.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXdlSYCzgIX4WGkOdCBCMg8QS8sJIPub0teLxFOMr8sLFarcKVLFKmtslR_5RifPjxsKpz6NyZH1ldtuBD4Bjr2Qkc5X-TaVrwNsJRxb-x7bmj0XLcFxeB4lOaV1AQdrguKMuWsBmn_hO1LJCk8pb-vvNDAXBffEn1fRNDSrGdfN_vi_VyPouwe2C_A/s4000/IMG_20220602_083119417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXdlSYCzgIX4WGkOdCBCMg8QS8sJIPub0teLxFOMr8sLFarcKVLFKmtslR_5RifPjxsKpz6NyZH1ldtuBD4Bjr2Qkc5X-TaVrwNsJRxb-x7bmj0XLcFxeB4lOaV1AQdrguKMuWsBmn_hO1LJCk8pb-vvNDAXBffEn1fRNDSrGdfN_vi_VyPouwe2C_A/s320/IMG_20220602_083119417.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOd36FXmv8hbVEsB9sH19iib993_onMcn5uXumblaOeGh6W30ztrxGSdp6kqClnZ67-iHWYIsc6v5h9kLDKdoYltbo1pCGts4GW3IkmkmOGJKVHeM7GAIy-a8OhGdFguJd9w2gWISi76Iov8Cw0SRU-Njws-mf_-o_5uRYdGxCv9hIu6sjFyuLfoSwA/s2902/IMG_20220602_083048754~2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2902" data-original-width="2289" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOd36FXmv8hbVEsB9sH19iib993_onMcn5uXumblaOeGh6W30ztrxGSdp6kqClnZ67-iHWYIsc6v5h9kLDKdoYltbo1pCGts4GW3IkmkmOGJKVHeM7GAIy-a8OhGdFguJd9w2gWISi76Iov8Cw0SRU-Njws-mf_-o_5uRYdGxCv9hIu6sjFyuLfoSwA/s320/IMG_20220602_083048754~2.jpg" width="252" /></a></div>We planted several new iris this year, but we're not sure they'll bloom this year. Next spring will be fantastic, though!<p></p><p></p><p>Hope you all are enjoying a lovely late spring/early summer.<br /> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-44340108585402801712022-05-15T11:22:00.001-06:002022-05-15T11:22:25.325-06:00May!<p> I've become truly lousy about blogging, <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKMtzF2hrkChsl0qyIigPapuaOZoxytXkpy72-wEmvR2JJiPqZ-WBKpCPFtUK5TDc7wPbB6l8j_aK04nioJVMC1CSMfc4bwLZdoL_KlpoWto4E0-r4C9DuhjE96gj1q9Xdehxi9goV2Oe-meFDQNL1l73fIbBuY6H_0bplU5XqOtCIcf9SkQz5VSSGw/s4000/IMG_20220514_184143733.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKMtzF2hrkChsl0qyIigPapuaOZoxytXkpy72-wEmvR2JJiPqZ-WBKpCPFtUK5TDc7wPbB6l8j_aK04nioJVMC1CSMfc4bwLZdoL_KlpoWto4E0-r4C9DuhjE96gj1q9Xdehxi9goV2Oe-meFDQNL1l73fIbBuY6H_0bplU5XqOtCIcf9SkQz5VSSGw/s320/IMG_20220514_184143733.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQMIR86O0_YfajiOt0d8RoupDe7IFdDeB8yo4M9bpe8iRXwsGztDlalRcSoVrlpcpbtbbWVqpmoKwrc-CKM72rkhWd6L0UH1hSF27PP20wIEgznbhYnV2pqL-ZPXodvOrv5z3igoKl0vDrHCdkbPG6FQCttsD3XxLXbI6TDYB3_w80q8v_e_PWZT_fJg/s4000/IMG_20220507_203614985.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQMIR86O0_YfajiOt0d8RoupDe7IFdDeB8yo4M9bpe8iRXwsGztDlalRcSoVrlpcpbtbbWVqpmoKwrc-CKM72rkhWd6L0UH1hSF27PP20wIEgznbhYnV2pqL-ZPXodvOrv5z3igoKl0vDrHCdkbPG6FQCttsD3XxLXbI6TDYB3_w80q8v_e_PWZT_fJg/s320/IMG_20220507_203614985.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>but I am getting some crafting done. Two new fabric & rope bowls are done and in the gift bin, but much of my crafting time has been taken up by...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKlaqGo4IQmw1JYQYOjh0SsVq-WBnzsfa0VaajhBzRmH0bYLw2_Ut7fBkYf9oHBIh-Uzs8C8btXE3atOuQ2j8BFZ-nEM4rKLNRLRw71AlqkqgYFq8o5t73XGYyhGMjPSq0Qocr9EHZlUuzgXUf7jPEu5qoM46weY4kweLcgjTAgN8uRM65Tsb5yNBQQw/s4000/IMG_20220418_191438895.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKlaqGo4IQmw1JYQYOjh0SsVq-WBnzsfa0VaajhBzRmH0bYLw2_Ut7fBkYf9oHBIh-Uzs8C8btXE3atOuQ2j8BFZ-nEM4rKLNRLRw71AlqkqgYFq8o5t73XGYyhGMjPSq0Qocr9EHZlUuzgXUf7jPEu5qoM46weY4kweLcgjTAgN8uRM65Tsb5yNBQQw/s320/IMG_20220418_191438895.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>a new piano!!! My old piano had been my grandmother's and never had great action to begin with, and then shortly after we moved to this house, it was ruined by a water leak and was essentially unplayable and unfixable. I have a digital piano, but it's just not the same. I fell in love with the Essex upright pianos while I worked at the music store, and my mother had always wanted a really nice piano, so we went to piano shopping together and both picked out an Essex. I love it! Charlie isn't as sure.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXSOVzDVKCrH9dVyEkk8reOuDdCdJh_goDRJ-K7u6rACJi2OHV8v5RHFJiN3NnNm_tzmOBeIJtZxYl_s7SDmuvQJr2WycY2EDtp0XYxfHQSk4R-OlYnNggeR_X7dINfM1qRZy7ds1yFHwsNhOmYNaaPgVhqoE8fM0oA5gOhTPp66NHnDPOVaY_HgBNg/s4000/IMG_20220418_190924648.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXSOVzDVKCrH9dVyEkk8reOuDdCdJh_goDRJ-K7u6rACJi2OHV8v5RHFJiN3NnNm_tzmOBeIJtZxYl_s7SDmuvQJr2WycY2EDtp0XYxfHQSk4R-OlYnNggeR_X7dINfM1qRZy7ds1yFHwsNhOmYNaaPgVhqoE8fM0oA5gOhTPp66NHnDPOVaY_HgBNg/s320/IMG_20220418_190924648.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2swxLSeF2Ks8Y3-aCHUOAXVpFW_8ufwGrMBzPk963r5KnZgbHH5FnhuCVnwOouoAY0cq1_wBE_dFZrL6pa0HWL5ZTlvJjaaKtzV1Yt69TYmWPkXL1VgKS2YKpFYb_nY3t2Nxxx1yWpZ7thbQe0WOIuFVoo6ofvZoNpJXLYPTWXDaI7N3BWRvPRqsWRg/s4000/IMG_20220418_190942167.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2swxLSeF2Ks8Y3-aCHUOAXVpFW_8ufwGrMBzPk963r5KnZgbHH5FnhuCVnwOouoAY0cq1_wBE_dFZrL6pa0HWL5ZTlvJjaaKtzV1Yt69TYmWPkXL1VgKS2YKpFYb_nY3t2Nxxx1yWpZ7thbQe0WOIuFVoo6ofvZoNpJXLYPTWXDaI7N3BWRvPRqsWRg/s320/IMG_20220418_190942167.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT36aV50WiPhSOE-_nenyfUixTlKaANky2J2-7yqBuRoVGUNdN8rAgbTXiajF5BocTiyVjnAFk9hhacqaOgSZuhylDEz9DgG736G5CBSpJGM9oahxDdcRDi2C5SM4LYPRaCB73UWTbNY-nU5efWWFxkxK5szb3D1CCt2BJ8aHGJ-LOZO5p11bZ_w2QdA/s4000/IMG_20220418_190946320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT36aV50WiPhSOE-_nenyfUixTlKaANky2J2-7yqBuRoVGUNdN8rAgbTXiajF5BocTiyVjnAFk9hhacqaOgSZuhylDEz9DgG736G5CBSpJGM9oahxDdcRDi2C5SM4LYPRaCB73UWTbNY-nU5efWWFxkxK5szb3D1CCt2BJ8aHGJ-LOZO5p11bZ_w2QdA/s320/IMG_20220418_190946320.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>On the one hand, it's something new to climb on. On the other hand, I think she sees it as a rival for attention and walking across the keys isn't as much fun as laying on fabric when I sew or laying on the computer when I worked from home. And I won't let her help with knitting,<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwPB_SmdKih113h63s_4SKkCikQ21EjiuB4i8NxIINn7OVOmYLxNrIArMGvJm26-ebibJFJkVS1c1HKbeIOu4JY3hZLHnnDiAjbAPIiIW4pA3-TLBst06tAvoUzXVvFZFH0TS-qu8ZcUSMdMnMlsdwfoY7czNfuWp56Bgy1R0ekXdACdrBi8ZA9hMNew/s4000/IMG_20220410_192038864.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwPB_SmdKih113h63s_4SKkCikQ21EjiuB4i8NxIINn7OVOmYLxNrIArMGvJm26-ebibJFJkVS1c1HKbeIOu4JY3hZLHnnDiAjbAPIiIW4pA3-TLBst06tAvoUzXVvFZFH0TS-qu8ZcUSMdMnMlsdwfoY7czNfuWp56Bgy1R0ekXdACdrBi8ZA9hMNew/s320/IMG_20220410_192038864.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>so she's feeling pretty abandoned right now. Most of her life, Andy and I both worked from home and she sees nothing good about us leaving the house. Ever.<p></p><p> Spring has arrived--sort of. It snowed and froze on Monday, but luckily all I have right now are bulbs and annuals coming up, <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE02j2DRqZlguBLuU-k9RY3SElzXT-AEPdDN3Q9aTafAVBCGlm4rTmaDqxw4ewtOgxvAc7wmWUZ_fb5A-z-AEb4T15GrhHENhAyYIkXJhL__xA0-4ErHAHfwuSqINZ0Qvi3a1U3emvp4UA8IShLnGlum8kvMOw-a-JbavrN-4UhioKgpnMiKsnD112_Q/s4000/IMG_20220508_155533501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE02j2DRqZlguBLuU-k9RY3SElzXT-AEPdDN3Q9aTafAVBCGlm4rTmaDqxw4ewtOgxvAc7wmWUZ_fb5A-z-AEb4T15GrhHENhAyYIkXJhL__xA0-4ErHAHfwuSqINZ0Qvi3a1U3emvp4UA8IShLnGlum8kvMOw-a-JbavrN-4UhioKgpnMiKsnD112_Q/s320/IMG_20220508_155533501.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr1Jqo4gnYbRPAlgBdqGIO-vNGEdsSJlRRcKVImmXIVgoAsK_yNhbOd13UsrRXZsay0mgiMKkr6alwBxsuFgrgmWQUddiXz2ejojlegDkmYjwTKtDw09-eMDg2nyk7i0RTCklDlJ7lNhoKSXqCipn3NJYmIYvJSHAZ1Ze7Wy4rtp1LpWBL13POYD9aDg/s4000/IMG_20220508_155456499.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr1Jqo4gnYbRPAlgBdqGIO-vNGEdsSJlRRcKVImmXIVgoAsK_yNhbOd13UsrRXZsay0mgiMKkr6alwBxsuFgrgmWQUddiXz2ejojlegDkmYjwTKtDw09-eMDg2nyk7i0RTCklDlJ7lNhoKSXqCipn3NJYmIYvJSHAZ1Ze7Wy4rtp1LpWBL13POYD9aDg/s320/IMG_20220508_155456499.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaithUmz183q1SaiTcH7ghp8Fi9hwh7fzU3bR8OvatFgs6SouwYIbTrX9nzmVIncDeDcATcdsIOkpTNtobIpNTBH5vGhHwiDsBUTKqxJm7N4q1KztRaH3AHMj8xK-ybczIvkvNbrLIsbxLPWpp23-KAiPila3wZpSybJZp6kZTfCcGj0G9Fr75jgXVOA/s4000/IMG_20220412_071549704.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaithUmz183q1SaiTcH7ghp8Fi9hwh7fzU3bR8OvatFgs6SouwYIbTrX9nzmVIncDeDcATcdsIOkpTNtobIpNTBH5vGhHwiDsBUTKqxJm7N4q1KztRaH3AHMj8xK-ybczIvkvNbrLIsbxLPWpp23-KAiPila3wZpSybJZp6kZTfCcGj0G9Fr75jgXVOA/s320/IMG_20220412_071549704.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>but it has been a cold spring. As I'm now doing marketing for a local heating & air conditioning company, that makes work just as interesting as yardwork. It's giving me time to fix some problems with ads not getting changed (for 2 years and listing both incorrect pricing and advertising our former line of equipment), website issues (too many to list), and I've been given 5 direct-reports, so there's lots to do even in our slow season. <br /><p>Hope everything is going well in your part of the world! Happy crafting!<br /><br /> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-75512567871565184482022-04-03T12:08:00.091-06:002022-04-03T12:12:31.395-06:00Third Time's the Charm<p> I don't know if the pandemic has made jobs more stressful or if it finally pushed employees to the point where we can say "unacceptable," but after leaving the fiber job because of the toxic and hateful environment, I joined a start-up company only to realize by my third day that I had made a mistake. In February I joined a local heating & air conditioning company as their marketing director, and I love it. I get a lot of comments about job hopping, but I bring skills to the table and I'm only going to spend my time with a company that recognizes and appreciates that.</p><p> And if finding a job where I'm NOT sick with anxiety on Sunday nights wasn't enough, I've already met one of my crafting goals this year: A FINISHED QUILT! This, <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJbUu-Waj84N1ycJ-b3S6F04g1WiFuczv7_IP4GL2V8CH-rn5wOPhN_IIiL0LY75njuHoB6cIjuwjwYaaLowEqIZn2NAtjxoq42mUGUx2xXB4kQKNAq09-Wb8cEQezJ7Jl7msBLi1Fi2FTgSQX8-3zkfgkI0X0koG2bSWPh3amkIuyDopGgZ6pmPllaw/s4000/IMG_20220115_065451140.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJbUu-Waj84N1ycJ-b3S6F04g1WiFuczv7_IP4GL2V8CH-rn5wOPhN_IIiL0LY75njuHoB6cIjuwjwYaaLowEqIZn2NAtjxoq42mUGUx2xXB4kQKNAq09-Wb8cEQezJ7Jl7msBLi1Fi2FTgSQX8-3zkfgkI0X0koG2bSWPh3amkIuyDopGgZ6pmPllaw/s320/IMG_20220115_065451140.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip42ZpgRL1TUeYPWagLDxmUdquGlkCHWNnUhmv33uymbmTaZJ9sPHo4z6Shvs-jbiHJqnZ4VeqUxVrF7u4k0paqTWxeMFpIHdUBSn0Efahe3W5IOlxtQXacE4Ipy9029ECp5k_2FUYAAEUX8m8etQdgPlxhzogvULhBQEO8uhG5IA0jc99kAThSrSZuQ/s4000/IMG_20220207_191537262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip42ZpgRL1TUeYPWagLDxmUdquGlkCHWNnUhmv33uymbmTaZJ9sPHo4z6Shvs-jbiHJqnZ4VeqUxVrF7u4k0paqTWxeMFpIHdUBSn0Efahe3W5IOlxtQXacE4Ipy9029ECp5k_2FUYAAEUX8m8etQdgPlxhzogvULhBQEO8uhG5IA0jc99kAThSrSZuQ/s320/IMG_20220207_191537262.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>is now finished, quilted, and in our living room! I love these greens together. Originally I'd picked them out to make baskets as gifts, but then loved them so much that I decided we needed a quilt in these colors. Probably not how that was supposed to work..............<p></p><p>This is my husband's year to make gifts, but I decided to get ahead for next year, so I've made some new kimono ornaments,<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHl5g47s2cgLJYpUL37PQWYAKuus_l0wvLyDIXrCzYgV1H1dYGCDgzra4PNtJb1nC1dYmSXwiFgOfsSa7YhoQ1Yhi1hzSGFV13JSaCNpJtLStX3Te2M0pNvisNxQdAFUi6rwBVZjIFdWWAQcns_O7EwXhzjj65YEXom2XoZmm5gUqK1zSLVqkhrTIHQ/s4000/IMG_20220126_121731613_HDR~2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHl5g47s2cgLJYpUL37PQWYAKuus_l0wvLyDIXrCzYgV1H1dYGCDgzra4PNtJb1nC1dYmSXwiFgOfsSa7YhoQ1Yhi1hzSGFV13JSaCNpJtLStX3Te2M0pNvisNxQdAFUi6rwBVZjIFdWWAQcns_O7EwXhzjj65YEXom2XoZmm5gUqK1zSLVqkhrTIHQ/s320/IMG_20220126_121731613_HDR~2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>finished some table runners I'm really happy with,</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2hoLuYN53yeJiQ5_Rn3ZKm0KqSXUhUDtMEJ8BJexdUQ2nRtBp9MmRneoDgkEF2yEoqQgGmCwkFqZFLkgEy4tevW86u48nzCt359ajIz32GudGWJFvI7rWdJiODONjElwCofZ8iXJ85c1wC4iVTDayp2dhg9uAlcRyi6KY97HASxBuU-47_r8hjVQeA/s4000/IMG_20220212_170402547.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2hoLuYN53yeJiQ5_Rn3ZKm0KqSXUhUDtMEJ8BJexdUQ2nRtBp9MmRneoDgkEF2yEoqQgGmCwkFqZFLkgEy4tevW86u48nzCt359ajIz32GudGWJFvI7rWdJiODONjElwCofZ8iXJ85c1wC4iVTDayp2dhg9uAlcRyi6KY97HASxBuU-47_r8hjVQeA/s320/IMG_20220212_170402547.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>and am working on 3 that are honestly not turning out that well. I think the prints are just too busy:<br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqcFHWnh00P1tQFXuN6RqngXbBpuXDbBbF8yugmhBj0HoMb7Kk-DUtXyUXywBCxRFZ9nzktO-eAdMzLZWEFFtOQhmw5L3qYkoUf_6B6VEu9EM3DFyCQLcnQy7tztcolYyV0xAqzGotNRX_DEJKWhRqz_TP4WTKIdPrqUyGdS2iRc6ulf329qSBD8wCA/s4000/IMG_20220312_120733080_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqcFHWnh00P1tQFXuN6RqngXbBpuXDbBbF8yugmhBj0HoMb7Kk-DUtXyUXywBCxRFZ9nzktO-eAdMzLZWEFFtOQhmw5L3qYkoUf_6B6VEu9EM3DFyCQLcnQy7tztcolYyV0xAqzGotNRX_DEJKWhRqz_TP4WTKIdPrqUyGdS2iRc6ulf329qSBD8wCA/s320/IMG_20220312_120733080_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Since the pattern swirl disappears in the prints, I added gold rickrack to one to see if it helped, and the jury is still out. <br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxdOX6HMznS4QnsTUG-9N2KxPiyN1a8aLWhhsUf6t5GYkkUpXUTHmx20q87VBXA5vD-kFxQ0xNGGcYIS3aPKh69iRc0BL1n6MU5hLx6au4UJDC6uG8ByFD_MC_QzWzsfZch9ZLTUnPyRukCPmyvN8PmzUS5a1EPcLfFVTrWhd2OnkRj4QPJM_jr1jCFQ/s320/IMG_20220319_200919126.jpg" width="240" /></div></div><p><br />It's not bad, but it just isn't great. What DID turn out great are the new jackets I made for the new job. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPCcFndtn44Kic70mcI2MYItXZJAvIVR9k1NJcIJvWArbAee4BLSre0VlQTjBAOBkAuENHy5gVk3Krs4zv3i8v_wyrStVO6PKZ6LUXYjSFD6YWbP1ElwWtIfGETv27XwOTzxZfPcz-pQehe_r2x8aif21a7-C5QrKi5nNth2pTJpPsdbXc2dYjZaxOQ/s4000/IMG_20220128_091044128_HDR~2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2603" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPCcFndtn44Kic70mcI2MYItXZJAvIVR9k1NJcIJvWArbAee4BLSre0VlQTjBAOBkAuENHy5gVk3Krs4zv3i8v_wyrStVO6PKZ6LUXYjSFD6YWbP1ElwWtIfGETv27XwOTzxZfPcz-pQehe_r2x8aif21a7-C5QrKi5nNth2pTJpPsdbXc2dYjZaxOQ/s320/IMG_20220128_091044128_HDR~2.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMiOGovW0co6XALwBJJ2RhGSI8BFli-HFskrSMbNl7kmNAd3ALLOF6lvzY68AQJUCmFP5OX19D7oPA1v72DEWBO3HwQBqmzbTh-xNzh6iBRqIvhwxS6klPl8uBJ6Zk2XAWbOuLYOURt5OozhlksSeQ2msAV5FXzw4CpTGZkcxdwKk1hMO0JJll0H5IA/s4000/IMG_20220129_101411551_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMiOGovW0co6XALwBJJ2RhGSI8BFli-HFskrSMbNl7kmNAd3ALLOF6lvzY68AQJUCmFP5OX19D7oPA1v72DEWBO3HwQBqmzbTh-xNzh6iBRqIvhwxS6klPl8uBJ6Zk2XAWbOuLYOURt5OozhlksSeQ2msAV5FXzw4CpTGZkcxdwKk1hMO0JJll0H5IA/s320/IMG_20220129_101411551_HDR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>The crossword puzzle jacket was a stretch for me, in all honesty, and I wasn't sure I would wear it, but I LOVE it. It's just whimsical and fun and I have even worn it multiple times!<br /><br />Speaking of whimsical, I'm working on a stained glass quilt <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDQNeu5zVeV5o-1b75sP9FOAe3-CT-KcfHG2veQRMm2M0a5ZJt5E7thk00IHys-Fi7akB6uDLF0OO27Cun8sgImGIrNcg7L8xjvVV1LdeX7BwTLzGmE8ooyhMtAHGlBI8TUsmzuophO7OSBLBw2iyrBuvYd0161tLYqB6Img_LkVzHD2zvQnr-8A5zA/s4000/IMG_20220313_173606445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDQNeu5zVeV5o-1b75sP9FOAe3-CT-KcfHG2veQRMm2M0a5ZJt5E7thk00IHys-Fi7akB6uDLF0OO27Cun8sgImGIrNcg7L8xjvVV1LdeX7BwTLzGmE8ooyhMtAHGlBI8TUsmzuophO7OSBLBw2iyrBuvYd0161tLYqB6Img_LkVzHD2zvQnr-8A5zA/s320/IMG_20220313_173606445.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxdOX6HMznS4QnsTUG-9N2KxPiyN1a8aLWhhsUf6t5GYkkUpXUTHmx20q87VBXA5vD-kFxQ0xNGGcYIS3aPKh69iRc0BL1n6MU5hLx6au4UJDC6uG8ByFD_MC_QzWzsfZch9ZLTUnPyRukCPmyvN8PmzUS5a1EPcLfFVTrWhd2OnkRj4QPJM_jr1jCFQ/s4000/IMG_20220319_200919126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><p>which I thought would be easier after making all the table runners, but where I could trade blocks into different runners to match intensity, today I finally had to remove a set of blocks that just stood out too much from the rest in the overall quilt. And had to be reminded that working from even the barest, most basic plan might have given me a better idea of how many blocks I needed. Oops.</p><p>Spring is finally here, and I am enjoying the early flowers, <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jQBo4XxLKO6N1Sasp5js2Z64u0a582IJjbJu0UoGPuoM-ZvUjelT0_BepeCh0T5c92oqnWrVLX8DCJ1qlpkf-HY2uLVEXRxz6dsi6E8PJtvAvqD7aM7FvVnzBEXq2m3lv4eyGBHALU5f6LnPbKI8z6sTyNJZ56fR5flHosy3XDJvZX5Hl_Ok1R7qFQ/s4000/IMG_20220403_093847005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jQBo4XxLKO6N1Sasp5js2Z64u0a582IJjbJu0UoGPuoM-ZvUjelT0_BepeCh0T5c92oqnWrVLX8DCJ1qlpkf-HY2uLVEXRxz6dsi6E8PJtvAvqD7aM7FvVnzBEXq2m3lv4eyGBHALU5f6LnPbKI8z6sTyNJZ56fR5flHosy3XDJvZX5Hl_Ok1R7qFQ/s320/IMG_20220403_093847005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_QlHh3Ml-7ZANCMTf-3Wg4Nk73GiswMgquuqFeO2_qiDXZ1NC3eEXRQMPEc-SBZfLalevRcjsRsCKv0ncg1eOaTRASB_anRJjWT1SyFO_tIoh6btaIbRhIgP2rKA-VD0nTZj2Ioan1akOeq7P9GVrross9VcxOlRpQjaAdu-rFxXQA_Q94esJmsZ9A/s4000/IMG_20220403_093759889.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I had hyacinths, too, but every year I forget how fast they bloom and die. This is why my favorite plants are the hellebores. They're blooming and will keep blooming most of the year. What's not to love? <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-46699162141759952352022-01-02T07:40:00.002-07:002022-01-02T07:40:42.458-07:002021 In Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgt22Bdyevg9KTnLRxCskeAeVmQT_5fHl3BkbMmq3Q0XNgmD7qXUEcmOY54u8cuL83AL23FIddSzYr9x5zV53oskDGyEe4SYU1BdbnQTLqtx_FgkGGsS3eyRy_gKbac2dT3pBWwLmZ_OSVzU7osUNONfhqKie0dxOiaGApZVjSE4DSeuRhAZILiGjRyw=s4096" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgt22Bdyevg9KTnLRxCskeAeVmQT_5fHl3BkbMmq3Q0XNgmD7qXUEcmOY54u8cuL83AL23FIddSzYr9x5zV53oskDGyEe4SYU1BdbnQTLqtx_FgkGGsS3eyRy_gKbac2dT3pBWwLmZ_OSVzU7osUNONfhqKie0dxOiaGApZVjSE4DSeuRhAZILiGjRyw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQiQpWYrnTbMPRahKztu3smOQk3lc_j0ooz5-veKxINbNDWIUS5QdSeUMWiz4GMsIygBZOq1x_AwvWh9YSIKMgMr2uDE4S1MBixHihD9ZtUW4c6gV1IaB3b3DuyBBrHlwHtrgY7sTKp9SAGHBtgyNjvTa8B2rkTgXw6PYgPVZTfTt9UEie0fDIBVXurA=s4000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It was the best of times, it was the most repetitive of times. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It was the age of home cooking experimentation, it was the age of movie marathons. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It was the epoch of home organization, it was the epoch of Zoom. And it was, frankly, kind of a long year. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We’re still both working from home, getting two months to the gallon on our commute, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and thanks to Andy’s new label-maker and some free-time on my end, our pantry is cleaned,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> organized, labeled, and borders on “a-serial-killer-might-live-here.” The linen closet is cleaned,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> yard work was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">almost</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> kept up with, and there are several new craft projects completed. I finally</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> gave my notice at my job in June after 14 months of exhausting hours and seeing problems not</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> addressed, and any qualms I might have had were resolved when my replacement quit on her third</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> day. I left without having another job lined up because I was just too exhausted to be able to</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> approach a new position with any energy, and it took weeks to even be able to sleep without drugs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and probably a full month before I stopped being seized by anxiety on Sunday nights. I took the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> summer off and started my new position as Marketing Manager with a start-up company on</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> November 1. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Andy continues at his company and was promoted this year to development manager. We are</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> thankful that his company has such an employee-centric policy as Andy was able to spend much of</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> the year in California with his parents. His father, Lowell, lost his battle with pancreatic cancer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> this year, and having the flexibility to work from anywhere allowed Andy to build some last </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">memories and help his mother transition, and for that we will always be grateful.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We continue to be staff to four cats who may never recover if we were to return to office work. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Charlie continues her love of chaos and rarely misses an interview or a chance to walk across</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> unattended keyboards. She can open Google chat, but hasn’t yet sent an email or purchased </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">anything. She’s been better about the Christmas tree, but cannot yet be trusted with the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> knitted ornaments.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Since we spent more time on our hobbies this year, our big project was to add heat to the garage</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and air-conditioning to the sewing room, so now we can both enjoy our hobbies year-round. Andy’s</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> work is trying 4-day workweeks, and now that I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">only</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> work 40-hours a week, there’s some extra </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">hobby-time to be enjoyed, though often dominated by those fatal words, “how hard could it be?” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> The answer is often unprintable.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This year we have learned:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If you make it through the first year of a pandemic without an airfryer, there’s always year two.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Real love is not holding a grudge when you are completely flattened by vaccines that don’t affect your spouse at all</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If your neighbors don’t think you’re strange enough, start taking your cat for walks in a backpack.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In year two of telecommuting, we’ve learned to have a decoy laptop for Charlie</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">After working for more than a year at a kitchen table, one can be absurdly excited about a desk with drawers</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It turns out that failing to practice musical instruments or keep up on the weeding </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">wasn’t</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> dependent</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> on having more time at home</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Never underestimate the power of a freshly-organized pantry</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There’s nothing like two years at home to inspire massive decluttering. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If your supervisor can look at your schedule and see that you’re doing a trade show that runs Thursday through </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sunday without the coordinator you were promised or any help and some of those days are 14 hours, and can think that </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you requesting two comp days is so unreasonable that she makes it a policy that, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">regardless of number of hours worked</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that you have to work two weekend days to earn a single comp day, run as far and as fast as you can.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">After 3 years of various deer repellent crystals and sprays, I have given up on tulips and have switched to daffodils. </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Look for skinnier deer in our neighborhood next spring. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There is no cat toy you can buy that will excite your cats as much as the box the cat toy came in</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If you’ve worked in a siloed environment where management can never be questioned and the messenger is regularly shot, </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it can be very difficult to transition to a collaborative environment. I have to keep a post-it note on my computer to</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> remind myself it’s okay to contribute. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It’s a smart idea to purchase festive Christmas sweaters after Christmas when they’re on sale. </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It would have been a brilliant idea to remember where one stashed them.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We’ve both received our two-dose COVID-19 vaccines and our booster shots, but are still waiting for cool </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">magnetic powers or the ability to pick up FM radio. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Beware a company that talks badly about former employees. Your time will come.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When cleaning a closet, it’s best not to question why one has sheets that don’t fit any of the beds or the </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">astounding number of random pillowcases. Save questions for the items neither of you can even identify. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">For a spectacular mess in the kitchen, it’s hard to top a too-wet dough through a specialty pasta attachment.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa, cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Inflatable ball chairs probably weren’t invented for homes full of cats.</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa,cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Wishing you and yours a very merry holiday season!!! </span></p></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-4387886313794914842021-04-20T17:01:00.003-06:002021-04-20T17:01:47.550-06:00I Can Do Project Monogamy!!!!!!!<p> Or mostly, if we don't count switching back and forth between quilting and knitting. </p><p></p><p>In spite of help from the kitties, mostly Charlie,<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnLQZkUpdfHkguOy9aF_BHOSOoOSua0Wu3_7QbixEgtMHHYej1a9swf5-jddQfPPmuQtk4DuICTjITFKLV8ZadDcR9CkvNSTxpdCV7Acs3nfiNQHaYUT8xXU-Ntq-jEXFDyxZnnK0n6QR/s4096/IMG_20210315_192623992_BURST003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnLQZkUpdfHkguOy9aF_BHOSOoOSua0Wu3_7QbixEgtMHHYej1a9swf5-jddQfPPmuQtk4DuICTjITFKLV8ZadDcR9CkvNSTxpdCV7Acs3nfiNQHaYUT8xXU-Ntq-jEXFDyxZnnK0n6QR/s320/IMG_20210315_192623992_BURST003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2cASH_jdFv4mwRW4PaFLoMRYyVEgx3zQpdEwviA0VNR_BQSGl_USSu9aKVZK-B_x1MCKPLe5l0qUta6NLetgqhSTjdTGdoaDU86PQ725K9rB68IwXuLKsDDK9gSSlrFDrhOpcuSywfgq/s4096/IMG_20210313_134422099.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2cASH_jdFv4mwRW4PaFLoMRYyVEgx3zQpdEwviA0VNR_BQSGl_USSu9aKVZK-B_x1MCKPLe5l0qUta6NLetgqhSTjdTGdoaDU86PQ725K9rB68IwXuLKsDDK9gSSlrFDrhOpcuSywfgq/s320/IMG_20210313_134422099.jpg" /></a></div>I have been working steadily on a new quilt project.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw3g3UXe8vG8kjztkE_hQznwZmODSLiUVB9fRyTzQkRnPtLvRJbm88P9MHOcZ2-D8hZOPK9hvkPlLT0HVDJVGzCPsOj4lD40SxzErP-yLRmb1efiI8ZIerulgMTfW4sEa_WFqcA2SPsl4D/s4096/IMG_20210307_183504506.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw3g3UXe8vG8kjztkE_hQznwZmODSLiUVB9fRyTzQkRnPtLvRJbm88P9MHOcZ2-D8hZOPK9hvkPlLT0HVDJVGzCPsOj4lD40SxzErP-yLRmb1efiI8ZIerulgMTfW4sEa_WFqcA2SPsl4D/s320/IMG_20210307_183504506.jpg" /></a></div>The project instructions said "simple," so it only took me a solid two months, which included ripping out some of my free motion quilting once I got so far off that I had huge puckers:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzT6yMuTnHgyfYE81ZeITdb2kpFLVGje-eu_DzbOdDh73s2DZ2qZBU0U6y6BWFkZ5yq14V7YNRlduwFKhWtwwleJaFtS96LGLCZZYiJYL92Nh-ATuVcUO7-TqA_UkXX8WW4K3hCbo8eXA-/s4096/IMG_20210403_160743297.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzT6yMuTnHgyfYE81ZeITdb2kpFLVGje-eu_DzbOdDh73s2DZ2qZBU0U6y6BWFkZ5yq14V7YNRlduwFKhWtwwleJaFtS96LGLCZZYiJYL92Nh-ATuVcUO7-TqA_UkXX8WW4K3hCbo8eXA-/s320/IMG_20210403_160743297.jpg" /></a></div><p>I am still very much learning, but the quilt sandwiching is one of the places I struggle most, and I did pretty well this time,<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyf-PcV5TsQNtSxHm53UjYL5Z1OnANOAW6-p3gOqTaCDRLXOFV6oDNkn_On225gUklCI95VExcP11zKidaOn0nJ8gKS6ktC0o_m6KsKLA-WEC08vUaIrDPY0iyfzT1z4v8HR_kTDzfAY8/s4096/IMG_20210314_165119005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyf-PcV5TsQNtSxHm53UjYL5Z1OnANOAW6-p3gOqTaCDRLXOFV6oDNkn_On225gUklCI95VExcP11zKidaOn0nJ8gKS6ktC0o_m6KsKLA-WEC08vUaIrDPY0iyfzT1z4v8HR_kTDzfAY8/s320/IMG_20210314_165119005.jpg" /></a></div>AND didn't discover that my borders were suddenly too full of ease to ever work. And, drum roll please, <b>the finished quilt is in the dryer. </b>That's right, I used the term "finished quilt" and I wasn't referring to someone else's blog. YAY!<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-50271493254340595592021-02-28T09:02:00.002-07:002021-02-28T09:03:34.400-07:00Goodbye February<p> Why is it that working from home makes for longer hours? </p><p></p><p></p>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:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFwAlaZnkk0QKBXge4ZJbS4kvMObCMUx534A3eSHJ_BT7YhESAORXjFBxHn_zcQmYFaDt7yXyQBvN0PbzxaCOYXwQPsI0wdC4prhPF1l_NDjrbqeJh_Z-upH8cqQXa-19XryDbQ6vCtJ6/s4096/IMG_20210109_163822970.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFwAlaZnkk0QKBXge4ZJbS4kvMObCMUx534A3eSHJ_BT7YhESAORXjFBxHn_zcQmYFaDt7yXyQBvN0PbzxaCOYXwQPsI0wdC4prhPF1l_NDjrbqeJh_Z-upH8cqQXa-19XryDbQ6vCtJ6/s320/IMG_20210109_163822970.jpg" /></a><br />Not realizing I had the material or doily to make them, last fall I'd ordered fabric to make a new set,<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgFUrC9omyavl9eSeuumJRq6szylEdqnWKqfZw8RF43Pd9RqWxwDeABT2bMeHfHP2vYbgv5u2xS75O-quh0SzGtdKGW00X3Bpu7bJvEs_vzVC72Iv77LW9kBcGuln-7lzf4VzXWY1h_cn/s4096/IMG_20210116_151439816.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgFUrC9omyavl9eSeuumJRq6szylEdqnWKqfZw8RF43Pd9RqWxwDeABT2bMeHfHP2vYbgv5u2xS75O-quh0SzGtdKGW00X3Bpu7bJvEs_vzVC72Iv77LW9kBcGuln-7lzf4VzXWY1h_cn/s320/IMG_20210116_151439816.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>this time TWELVE with <b>15</b> matching napkins, because what isn't fun about hemming?<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitbGHl_B3FrJtWMaLvQEJPVfVHt8JaTQ9Qs0LxtCicekSPlsVkqr_obZUWWdoh-rHh3FCtwsaJ4_yPcAeLyIToks2whzQX71asKoKO9K7s8X676dIm9iaT2OhTIvb-KxhpSsZShx_rvLVp/s4096/IMG_20210131_141351630.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitbGHl_B3FrJtWMaLvQEJPVfVHt8JaTQ9Qs0LxtCicekSPlsVkqr_obZUWWdoh-rHh3FCtwsaJ4_yPcAeLyIToks2whzQX71asKoKO9K7s8X676dIm9iaT2OhTIvb-KxhpSsZShx_rvLVp/s320/IMG_20210131_141351630.jpg" /></a></div>(besides all of it). Sometime in the last 18 years the original doilies stopped being produced without notifying me first, so a new source had to be found. Amazon really does have everything, but it seems the rest of the world isn't just here to accommodate crafting needs, so there was an additional center medallion on each doily that had to be cut away in order to be flat, and I don't know if you know this about doilies, but they really don't enjoy being cut. This leads to fraying. Lots of fraying, some of which isn't secured simply with a seam, so hand stitching is required to get them to cooperate in being a placemat. Which explains why Andy's Valentine's Day gift,<br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMkvZ-dHlvUUiiFeKDNhDah_BaU77XfWg7lgEraGV0AjsDAGB8T-SD_p4mGgSXHbzV-qGyBvoyFU6EDlnsAUoBFjiGjVYBO6uMWi6j8BPu5gsdL3-MHCGtdapmSJ9S0rmAjamhqubXk5W/s4096/IMG_20210221_154248813.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMkvZ-dHlvUUiiFeKDNhDah_BaU77XfWg7lgEraGV0AjsDAGB8T-SD_p4mGgSXHbzV-qGyBvoyFU6EDlnsAUoBFjiGjVYBO6uMWi6j8BPu5gsdL3-MHCGtdapmSJ9S0rmAjamhqubXk5W/s320/IMG_20210221_154248813.jpg" /></a></div>didn't even get started until after Valentine's Day. Oops. Venus and I worked on the hand-stitching yesterday after taxes,<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-W4I7eiTFPwhCvCQqINU0X_lm3_PVoFHxgWAUBLBeg5oCI9V6UHIi2qZdv7ZQ0lnyCVDpYE6QBKuJSefGdwsQuUIpZK-IpvMJzdIGJfEnWkvU6nqKTkhpE7nFWlA2rontH7c1upinShav/s4096/IMG_20210227_133508927.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-W4I7eiTFPwhCvCQqINU0X_lm3_PVoFHxgWAUBLBeg5oCI9V6UHIi2qZdv7ZQ0lnyCVDpYE6QBKuJSefGdwsQuUIpZK-IpvMJzdIGJfEnWkvU6nqKTkhpE7nFWlA2rontH7c1upinShav/s320/IMG_20210227_133508927.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>and there is still a chance I could finish the shirt today to at least achieve the right gift MONTH, so that would be something.....<br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-18000920366490455522021-01-01T09:58:00.004-07:002021-01-01T09:58:41.811-07:00Happy New Year<p>I didn't make my goal of 50 projects for the year, but I did squeak in a last project for the year with fleece pajamas for Andy,</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9dH2BBsmkJ_MK7fCx5fQvatqdgmVflum1dNuo1nUURzqweUStpAJBB8uPfvWJ5jRHn77l-oHEee3IVSgbljvL-glYnz-b2T-mGxsaNca023o8bCZsVDQcsKRtUd6yO0wJ1IPTUefDDYCc/s4096/IMG_20201231_145236694.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9dH2BBsmkJ_MK7fCx5fQvatqdgmVflum1dNuo1nUURzqweUStpAJBB8uPfvWJ5jRHn77l-oHEee3IVSgbljvL-glYnz-b2T-mGxsaNca023o8bCZsVDQcsKRtUd6yO0wJ1IPTUefDDYCc/s320/IMG_20201231_145236694.jpg" /></a></div>and a last pair of socks, which are almost twins!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwq1rBVlahKNXo8HzE6JYEe9cFOaSe6IBgnLt02o6A-7DsxUI_uuFcVW1-8z6_F59iVxNkMA7pzz_I1VwuG7XnHogjpjKIqyfHQvzvFqF7bayooGfUM4EyyjdA-pI7SxVWwFOZFv83huKx/s4096/IMG_20201228_072633657.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwq1rBVlahKNXo8HzE6JYEe9cFOaSe6IBgnLt02o6A-7DsxUI_uuFcVW1-8z6_F59iVxNkMA7pzz_I1VwuG7XnHogjpjKIqyfHQvzvFqF7bayooGfUM4EyyjdA-pI7SxVWwFOZFv83huKx/s320/IMG_20201228_072633657.jpg" /></a></div>Considering how many knots were in this skein of yarn, I'm calling it a Christmas miracle. Of course, I immediately cast on for a new pair: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnBSKqryqkFx-hr5yfBGZMo_MJA6FkXhkxe3bgrp8pPnJU3Jg3KdAQw-bikqKo4Ihq_NRHx0ttc7jeOTZ_CTtK9k5zOpCkvnjVtOmBLA0ykY9KIlj-Pu02IBFmoVI_YGla1wy5Xpxb0kE/s4096/IMG_20201230_194027976.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnBSKqryqkFx-hr5yfBGZMo_MJA6FkXhkxe3bgrp8pPnJU3Jg3KdAQw-bikqKo4Ihq_NRHx0ttc7jeOTZ_CTtK9k5zOpCkvnjVtOmBLA0ykY9KIlj-Pu02IBFmoVI_YGla1wy5Xpxb0kE/s320/IMG_20201230_194027976.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>because there might be some sock yarn that found its way into my stash this year. Actually, a LOT of yarn might have joined me this year. While under normal circumstances, I would feel bad about it, anything short of alcoholism to cope with the stress of 2020 seems like a "win." </p><p>I'm working tons and tons of hours at my new job, but I think I'm still going to try for 50 finished projects this year. It's my turn to make gifts, so there will be some smaller projects--maybe fabric bowls? More table runners? How many table runners do people who don't sew use? It's a lot, right?</p><p>Let's hope 2021 is a MUCH better year than 2020.<br /><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-63124047687192896012020-12-31T09:40:00.000-07:002021-01-01T09:41:34.436-07:00Holiday Greetings for 2020<p> </p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It’s hard to know what to say about a year so dominated by “pivoting” and toilet paper. Two normal </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">months and bam, I can’t stop touching my face, we all learned we weren’t washing our hands</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> correctly, and suddenly the hot tip of the day is which store currently has supplies of cleaning </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">products, rice, and flour. I had a “source” for hand sanitizer when it could not be obtained, but not one</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> for thin elastic for sewing masks for healthcare workers. We went from, “ OMG, THAT WAS AN </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">EARTHQUAKE” at the end of March to “eh, I don’t think that aftershock was even a 4.2” later in the </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> summer. And it really felt like a FAST change--in mid-March I accepted a new job and bought a new</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> pair of shoes to celebrate, and by the time I started just two weeks later, pants were pretty much </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">optional, let alone shoes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb6e5147-7fff-e65b-7a81-02838b138e94" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We have been very lucky this year: Andy is still working for a health information company and the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">demand for accurate, peer-reviewed health information increased as did how frequently the information </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">had to be updated, so while he logged some long hours, his company continues going strong, which is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pretty exciting in 2020. In March I was offered a job with an internet company that has expanded to our</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> area to build a new fiber-to-the-home internet system, as their field marketing manager, combining </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">everything I’ve done in my career--marketing, events, telecom, sales, public relations, and customer </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">service. Of course, as part of my job is to arrange to have the sales team out and about at events, it’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been pretty challenging and sometimes frustrating, but one definitely has job security when internet </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">demand has skyrocketed and one’s company is bringing in the fastest speeds in the valley. Of course,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> the irony has been that I’ve been doing this while working at home struggling with the limitations of our </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">competitor’s internet service while ours is being built. Such is 2020. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We still have 4 cats, who have loved our new work-from-home situations. They’ve crashed interviews </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and video conferences, and we finally had to buy extra cat trees so there was one by each human’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">workspace in order to distract our little helpers. Charlie, the adventurous little stray we found last year, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">discovered a way to climb onto the shelf above one of the doorways, which she only did during work </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">hours so we would have to stop, get the ladder out, and rescue her, which went on until we finally </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">figured out how she was doing it and rearranged the furniture. She could probably still climb the stone </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">fireplace, but thankfully, she hasn’t figured that out yet, and is not too busy playing in the 9-foot </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christmas tree to try it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve been quarantined twice for coronavirus exposures at work and once for a community exposure, but </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">so far, we are staying healthy and safe, and we’re looking forward to being able to see all of you again </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">when it’s safe to do so. In the meantime, wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 97.5px; top: 104.07px; transform: scaleX(1.13291);">This year we have learned...</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 125.681px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 125.681px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 125.32px; transform: scaleX(1.18094);">When global emergencies strike, have toilet paper one can use for barter</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 146.931px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 146.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 146.57px; transform: scaleX(1.16805);">30 days hath September, but COVID months have at least a year and a half</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 168.181px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 168.181px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 167.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18206);">Both parties need a great deal of trust when it comes to cutting one’s spouse’s hair. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 167.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18206);"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 189.07px; transform: scaleX(1.16619);">Being unlikely to be seen by anyone else until it grows out also helps.</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 211.931px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 211.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 211.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18444);">Many people complain about them, but masks are great for walking on the Greenbelt</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 232.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18388);"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 232.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18388);">during Cottonwood season.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 232.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18388);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 254.431px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 254.07px; transform: scaleX(1.17402);">It’s possible to miss commuting, or at least driving between meetings</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 275.681px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 275.681px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 275.32px; transform: scaleX(1.19614);">It took a surprisingly short amount of time to start checking the schedule while getting </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 275.32px; transform: scaleX(1.19614);"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 296.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18298);">ready in the morning to see if one was going to be visible or not</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 318.181px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 318.181px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 317.82px; transform: scaleX(1.17758);">Life is better for everyone when there are regular “kitten breaks”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 317.82px; transform: scaleX(1.17758);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 339.431px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 339.07px; transform: scaleX(1.17576);">We should have bought stock in Zoom</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 360.681px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 360.681px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 360.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15727);">Bumping elbows doesn’t get less weird, even after 9 months</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 360.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15727);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 381.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 381.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18321);">It’s going to be hard to go back to wearing shoes to work</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 403.181px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 403.181px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 402.82px; transform: scaleX(1.16756);">I know we used to do it before the pandemic, but it seems like three meals a day are a </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 402.82px; transform: scaleX(1.16756);"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 425.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15238);">LOT when one is under “stay at home” orders.</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 446.931px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 446.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 446.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18719);">I’m one quarantine away from becoming an agoraphobe</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 446.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18719);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 468.181px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 467.82px; transform: scaleX(1.17025);">I used to watch funny cat videos for entertainment. Now I watch them to see if there’s </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 467.82px; transform: scaleX(1.17025);"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 489.07px; transform: scaleX(1.18465);">anything Charlie hasn’t thought of yet..</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 510.681px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 510.681px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 510.32px; transform: scaleX(1.18432);">Shooting the messenger is a fantastic way to stop communication</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 531.931px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 531.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 531.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18368);">A global pandemic is certainly one way to deal with the problem of how to handle </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 531.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18368);"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 552.82px; transform: scaleX(1.16795);">business luncheons while wearing braces</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 552.82px; transform: scaleX(1.16795);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 574.431px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 574.07px; transform: scaleX(1.14154);">Since we’re home a LOT, I revived my “new recipe of the week” project, which has been</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 595.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1572);"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 595.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1572);">closely followed by “thank heavens we have leftovers and don’t have to cook” week</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 616.931px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 616.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 616.57px; transform: scaleX(1.16961);">Because I work long and sometimes unusual hours, Andy bought me a daily pill </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 639.07px; transform: scaleX(1.17676);">container </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 639.07px; transform: scaleX(1.17676);">and filled it with M&Ms to help me keep track of what day of the week it is.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 660.32px; transform: scaleX(1.17877);">This is absolutely </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 660.32px; transform: scaleX(1.17877);">the best thing that happened in 2020</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 681.931px;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 681.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 681.57px; transform: scaleX(1.16949);">I don’t know what to do in December without 10 or so Christmas parties to attend.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 681.57px; transform: scaleX(1.16949);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 703.181px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 702.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18382);">When the pandemic first hit and everyone else was buying up the flour and toilet</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 724.07px; transform: scaleX(1.17517);"> paper, I </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 724.07px; transform: scaleX(1.17517);">stocked up on wine and chocolate. We all have our priorities.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 724.07px; transform: scaleX(1.17517);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 745.681px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 745.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15517);">Charlie has an “I am doing something bad and I want you to see” cry, and it’s REALLY </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 745.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15517);"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 766.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18569);">best to respond before she escalates things</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 766.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18569);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 788.181px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 787.82px; transform: scaleX(1.16346);">RIGHT before the pandemic hit, I actually scheduled a “nothing” weekend on our</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 809.07px; transform: scaleX(1.15977);"> calendar</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 809.07px; transform: scaleX(1.15977);"> so we could have an entire weekend where we didn’t go anywhere or see </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 830.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15294);">anyone. SO over that by now.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 830.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15294);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 851.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 851.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18675);">Knitting isn’t quite the pandemic coping-skill one would think as one’s gauge tightens </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 874.07px; transform: scaleX(1.15242);">or </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 874.07px; transform: scaleX(1.15242);">loosens by how stressed one is. Between the pandemic and the new job, I think I’ve </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 895.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1847);">made </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 895.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1847);">bullet-proof socks.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 895.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1847);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 916.931px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 916.57px; transform: scaleX(1.1816);">We finally caved this year and bought a robotic vacuum cleaner, which keeps locking </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 916.57px; transform: scaleX(1.1816);"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 937.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18613);">itself in the bathroom. I don’t think it’s emotionally stable enough for a home with 4 </span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 959.07px; transform: scaleX(1.20676);">cats</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 959.07px; transform: scaleX(1.20676);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 980.681px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 980.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1862);">Employees can overlook problems, but not the consistent failure to fix problems</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 980.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1862);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 1001.93px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1001.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18279);">We had no idea how much visitors influenced our house cleaning routine</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1001.57px; transform: scaleX(1.18279);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 1023.18px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1022.82px; transform: scaleX(1.18371);">There’s a lot to be said for working from home, but there’s a lot to be said for being</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1044.07px; transform: scaleX(1.18817);"> able </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1044.07px; transform: scaleX(1.18817);">to leave the office</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1044.07px; transform: scaleX(1.18817);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 1065.68px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1065.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1684);">Somehow the “walk to the kitchen table” commute didn’t lead to more free time.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1065.32px; transform: scaleX(1.1684);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 1088.18px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1087.82px; transform: scaleX(1.19792);">Out of everything that happened this year--the pandemic, the earthquake and</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1109.07px; transform: scaleX(1.19808);"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1109.07px; transform: scaleX(1.19808);">aftershocks--the thing that actually frightened me the most was finding a large spider</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1130.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15702);">web in </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1130.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15702);">my car. We all have our limits. I’m just lucky I was at a stoplight at the time.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1130.32px; transform: scaleX(1.15702);"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16.6625px; left: 127.5px; top: 1151.93px;">➔</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.6625px; left: 157.5px; top: 1151.57px; transform: scaleX(1.16558);">At least we’re going to REALLY appreciate the little things when this is all over</span> </span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-20268639265309489272020-11-26T19:38:00.005-07:002020-11-26T20:32:29.514-07:00Thanksgiving 2020<p>I am finally taking a whole week off! YAY! I'm so burnt out by the new job, and by 2020 in general, so it's nice to get a break.<br /></p><p>We get to have a Christmas tree this year! We had to make a few Charlie-adjustments, like clip-on lights instead of light strings, no breakable ornaments, and <br /></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyUzhUxEFYNgFZs0kLW_hUrGohx7l6hwhCTsmXY1LiVQRBrTFX-NrQz6fbf-krCF1V_QSw93EgMt4Q2-R9RS0VTLbR0XhAOdW6EOq5MIdExrVMaAk9eBJQcqbaCR9QALXab3GY788-aji/s4096/IMG_20201108_130012625.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyUzhUxEFYNgFZs0kLW_hUrGohx7l6hwhCTsmXY1LiVQRBrTFX-NrQz6fbf-krCF1V_QSw93EgMt4Q2-R9RS0VTLbR0XhAOdW6EOq5MIdExrVMaAk9eBJQcqbaCR9QALXab3GY788-aji/s320/IMG_20201108_130012625.jpg" /></a></div><p>the tree skirt may or may not be found under the tree. But at least the tree has ornaments this year--that's progress!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUkgK2FLZfZM09mB-IKuEhiSQIde4g2kGpobD1cUK-uN907eyRco2Hc0g0TPPxXbdXP9IfubiiQ9V5yL7t_uKKrgu2MBZ-aaF2nD3cXD9EyYHIovEFL-gjJ43XOptQG57SeqQRHkL2tV3e/s4096/IMG_20201108_110930447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUkgK2FLZfZM09mB-IKuEhiSQIde4g2kGpobD1cUK-uN907eyRco2Hc0g0TPPxXbdXP9IfubiiQ9V5yL7t_uKKrgu2MBZ-aaF2nD3cXD9EyYHIovEFL-gjJ43XOptQG57SeqQRHkL2tV3e/s320/IMG_20201108_110930447.jpg" /></a></div>Because it is just not safe or responsible to be around people outside our home, we had a pretty low-key Thanksgiving. I roasted a turkey on Sunday so we'd have leftovers, and we went for a long walk today, wrapped gifts, and I finished part of Andy's Christmas gift:<br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNb4Vv3pg2DeqUz1tZoVGZHHIKsC7KzdSTVbowlcN23PSSV0vwuBx2LdsJ7QFhIcDKilLj1er1prYnt0jTACwWdK8wz6K-egO08-KX_JvlE1FgHYHLmkzjnGUFXOEAAZEs3qJKzAhrHiRy/s4096/IMG_20201126_165609514.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNb4Vv3pg2DeqUz1tZoVGZHHIKsC7KzdSTVbowlcN23PSSV0vwuBx2LdsJ7QFhIcDKilLj1er1prYnt0jTACwWdK8wz6K-egO08-KX_JvlE1FgHYHLmkzjnGUFXOEAAZEs3qJKzAhrHiRy/s320/IMG_20201126_165609514.jpg" /></a></div>I used my favorite shirt pattern:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNKiN-TbmHddNBN8fut_p62Z_0GB_T5ItT6BQ04OIcukENfTkSVb3ybRSoqwkgaEQqwUv89f_s2JFI2lkDRMpJ0OVY_BXSkX9g-gzQKY8srwatVbpEjs3PterLFZ3izCzgNRPS9-OVGXW/s4096/IMG_20201126_094718395.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNKiN-TbmHddNBN8fut_p62Z_0GB_T5ItT6BQ04OIcukENfTkSVb3ybRSoqwkgaEQqwUv89f_s2JFI2lkDRMpJ0OVY_BXSkX9g-gzQKY8srwatVbpEjs3PterLFZ3izCzgNRPS9-OVGXW/s320/IMG_20201126_094718395.jpg" /></a></div>but no matter WHAT the envelope says, this is not a three-hour shirt. It took me four days. And now, with just over one month to go in the year, I have eight projects to go. I did finish the front of the current sweater project,<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDeKrXPX4364euZHz8QUYP9nl1iNZqlYAN-KH2Fk_HNmHrodrZNFIe37XO9ZWgeYes2gHD07AUgZg9LJXHY0HQljTmL3TXK97Q_Udu9OEQNbS8Jtp7tggvnGRd4Qv-WVDO3E_mQBc_wlj/s4096/IMG_20201124_140433201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDeKrXPX4364euZHz8QUYP9nl1iNZqlYAN-KH2Fk_HNmHrodrZNFIe37XO9ZWgeYes2gHD07AUgZg9LJXHY0HQljTmL3TXK97Q_Udu9OEQNbS8Jtp7tggvnGRd4Qv-WVDO3E_mQBc_wlj/s320/IMG_20201124_140433201.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>and have cast on the back, so<i> </i>I AM making progress, so there's still hope. And I still have tomorrow off...................<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-40086332123515030252020-10-13T17:28:00.003-06:002020-10-13T17:28:32.030-06:00It's Been A Long Year<p>What a ghastly year. Besides the fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and the pandemic, I am truly and utterly appalled by the realization that there are people who just don't care about others. I just don't know what to say to people who are okay with those dying of coronavirus if they have "underlying conditions." When did people become this awful? 215,000 deaths in the US now and I miss my "normal" life as much as anyone, but <b>other people's lives matter. </b>I can't even believe this is debatable.</p><p>The new job REALLY keeps me busy, and for a few weeks I was was so stressed out that even with drugs, I could only sleep about 4 hours a night, but it's gotten better. Hopefully. I work a lot of hours--sometimes 12-14 hour days, so some days off I just rest, but there has been some sewing. We have new, "fun" masks,<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1-ekQpo6GtRMbHmtkOYRwllZu-GdzbsWEWNS4LM9g8GJEDFw6FBXaSrNLFo0UxUBONNmtFXg7g-QUEHAPyM5cR9Yv1fSdLmYWrYcAzdCaVAxBM1Fe1j3UW6dxHJndtpvIz00EfEy_pHZ/s4096/IMG_20200906_102608210.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1-ekQpo6GtRMbHmtkOYRwllZu-GdzbsWEWNS4LM9g8GJEDFw6FBXaSrNLFo0UxUBONNmtFXg7g-QUEHAPyM5cR9Yv1fSdLmYWrYcAzdCaVAxBM1Fe1j3UW6dxHJndtpvIz00EfEy_pHZ/s320/IMG_20200906_102608210.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I have met the worst fabric ever made,<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWQU3bhyhgbbBvtSt6tireuMOzmjwjKdpLwnIoxaekXdALh1Pjnf2Sqb-s1A8GEZo_SMuyg8829gM8axtZexiCQLfVvyVflCXN_Ul2l2z4ICVQodeutQk90cYisnIHTgGCrplZZ9AGeSa/s4096/IMG_20200926_113407846.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWQU3bhyhgbbBvtSt6tireuMOzmjwjKdpLwnIoxaekXdALh1Pjnf2Sqb-s1A8GEZo_SMuyg8829gM8axtZexiCQLfVvyVflCXN_Ul2l2z4ICVQodeutQk90cYisnIHTgGCrplZZ9AGeSa/s320/IMG_20200926_113407846.jpg" /></a></div><p>which will hopefully become shirts for both of us without killing me. The drape is truly beautiful, but it is easily the hardest fabric I've met. It's a moleskin/microsuede, which is usually fine once you get the hang of it, but this one isn't like the others. I've had it so long that I don't even know exactly what it was labeled as, but I now understand why it was on clearance. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrPD55YCHOW20JVdpwEu3YM95bMLvqiGuSWRUmFKTESA5FtR1f-F0DvKlR-u3YvHN38kvqke_Y3mKJBcA9hH-XjP9JobL5xaJLjL8KrktDAv_r2KMGceIzKeyt3Huj6aPY9UwImFORd2mM/s4096/IMG_20200824_135015783.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrPD55YCHOW20JVdpwEu3YM95bMLvqiGuSWRUmFKTESA5FtR1f-F0DvKlR-u3YvHN38kvqke_Y3mKJBcA9hH-XjP9JobL5xaJLjL8KrktDAv_r2KMGceIzKeyt3Huj6aPY9UwImFORd2mM/s320/IMG_20200824_135015783.jpg" /></a></p>Luckily I'd made some flannel pajamas for myself with these lovely butterflies before tackling the shirt, so I'm still almost positive that I enjoy sewing.<p></p><p>The cats think this is the best year of their lives because the humans are almost always home, and we chase water droplets in the shower, <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOJidc1v-Uw8w3FnSyZnguiOD2KQ_AzdoQvTXWqJKTZIrV5wxgYJfpaec6Tp5XWtRgE_-lzea5tPGB_GNVtsgMDVlaiU9zYdteTJjwzSCiJn1K8tUMnZupholEJv4XQ7txzNKs7BmKSob/s4096/IMG_20201006_061254797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOJidc1v-Uw8w3FnSyZnguiOD2KQ_AzdoQvTXWqJKTZIrV5wxgYJfpaec6Tp5XWtRgE_-lzea5tPGB_GNVtsgMDVlaiU9zYdteTJjwzSCiJn1K8tUMnZupholEJv4XQ7txzNKs7BmKSob/s320/IMG_20201006_061254797.jpg" /></a></div><p>We enjoy warm socks--each in our own way:</p><p><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-nFuEFmeaRo7jiLQyOW4JWRiaKifWJlUf4T16DTyzqqPeVBOksN73Y2pfQidrKDm2fowutftNr6tmCltc9w3SGZUm-XURSwpwEE6tJ7X9lMFyLkGFELXLNuWizqFr4V545RmQQyyfAQU/s320/IMG_20200925_101112415.jpg" width="320" /><br /> We've sorted through some of our plush fabrics,<br /></p><p></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjKY9JplyU3sPJ3AZ2OvwW9DxN5AYZFfXyD1SQDiWSJhwVxulm4iPSB3OPd97AerdjYHwmbxx2qNLJHugIQ76S1eDJA13F-S-Y5tkYs2vpaK3MVIWfQBD3-TV-INEeMRAfvEtfFCZMm_9/s4096/IMG_20200903_094137594.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjKY9JplyU3sPJ3AZ2OvwW9DxN5AYZFfXyD1SQDiWSJhwVxulm4iPSB3OPd97AerdjYHwmbxx2qNLJHugIQ76S1eDJA13F-S-Y5tkYs2vpaK3MVIWfQBD3-TV-INEeMRAfvEtfFCZMm_9/s320/IMG_20200903_094137594.jpg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">and we've learned some new features on THE sewing machine,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhqQgKcIkV2wSsEnUR6yYkveYAofhRQCUsTwrOfwaxoM3oAlozx2sGubiy8ja1Khm8hNpHu8GgMrML9-4LutweJFM2yDdMQA3cf8SUS2lO-Jmi7V_QAflj2Y328Ywchjhd3EQ5CZB85PeG/s4096/IMG_20200906_093520009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhqQgKcIkV2wSsEnUR6yYkveYAofhRQCUsTwrOfwaxoM3oAlozx2sGubiy8ja1Khm8hNpHu8GgMrML9-4LutweJFM2yDdMQA3cf8SUS2lO-Jmi7V_QAflj2Y328Ywchjhd3EQ5CZB85PeG/s320/IMG_20200906_093520009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">including how to keep a kitten from eating thread as I sew. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Andy ordered a Gumby DVD set because I'd actually never seen the original show, and it came with two "blockhead" figurines, and to liven up being home, we've been taking turns hiding one of them in plain site for the other to "discover." <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZM94BqRfQ-JKrbYUx6zuZxZV6A_B-qq07OQbixCzs2t7c4uYBu_Cw4rVgcdJK8tUDiJviGP0CQVkweumN25oYxw0NerY50vVEVy5DmT5OpMCByxDc1vMW73VkITzDdHsP7Q7d37TirgHT/s4096/IMG_20200926_180145813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZM94BqRfQ-JKrbYUx6zuZxZV6A_B-qq07OQbixCzs2t7c4uYBu_Cw4rVgcdJK8tUDiJviGP0CQVkweumN25oYxw0NerY50vVEVy5DmT5OpMCByxDc1vMW73VkITzDdHsP7Q7d37TirgHT/s320/IMG_20200926_180145813.jpg" /></a></div></div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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And if we lose interest, we always have Charlie:<br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqQSpMfmj7J7afZgMOlBmRWX3fSwZdKHFftyOcqEr5zyk-NmLObhjJXVzSfRtCupiswOGumxgab-Y8LNYVDBvmx6pFfE2TwLwHzqgolBqKxBiSx3YMF3pmEy0hutSqFoDvPcQsVGQV051/s4096/IMG_20200904_160331405_MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqQSpMfmj7J7afZgMOlBmRWX3fSwZdKHFftyOcqEr5zyk-NmLObhjJXVzSfRtCupiswOGumxgab-Y8LNYVDBvmx6pFfE2TwLwHzqgolBqKxBiSx3YMF3pmEy0hutSqFoDvPcQsVGQV051/s320/IMG_20200904_160331405_MP.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-81416491868513849472020-08-10T08:31:00.001-06:002020-08-10T08:31:27.523-06:00Done!Work is crazy-busy, but I did get a break yesterday and was able to finish a shirt I've been working on for me<br />
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I'm really excited about this one, because it's the first time I've done more for a shirt than embroider a pocket. My old machine just made too many mistakes to risk more, but since I had extra fabric in case I had issues, I decided to add embroidery to the yoke and the cuffs:<br />
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I know it's customary for the embroidery to be right-side up on the cuffs, but then my hummingbirds would be upside down to ME, so I decided as I would be the one seeing them most and it's MY shirt, they're upside down so they're right side up when I view the cuffs. AND THE EMBROIDERY TURNED OUT PERFECTLY!!! I'm so excited. If it weren't crazy-hot, I'd wear this shirt today.<br />
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I'm also making the same shirt for Andy, with just a bit of approved embroidery on the pocket. I staggered the shirt steps just a bit between the two sizes so I wouldn't sew the wrong yoke or pocket or something, so I'm closing in on Finished Project number 30. I'm taking a few days off to make the Labor Day weekend a bit longer, so I hope to get some serious crafting done then. 4 1/2 months and 20 projects to go!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-50121372591323350842020-07-26T08:36:00.003-06:002020-07-26T08:37:39.520-06:00JulyThere has been crafting! Like every red state that reopened quickly to save the economy, coronavirus is surging here, so we're both fortunate that our companies are both still having employees work from home (though I have to be out and about some for work) and we go out as little as possible. Our county FINALLY has a mask mandate, which is helping, but gyms and indoor dining are still allowed, so we're not exactly protecting our citizens as well as we could. <br />
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I made a new shirt, <br />
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which is NOT made of plastic or vinyl, no matter how it looks.<br />
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Venus has been helping me on my Irish Moss sweater, <br />
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which is down to just seams and the collar, but I think I'm going to run out of yarn and this particular colorway is out of stock right now, so I've put it aside again. As the dye lots will probably vary, the best place for the new yarn is the back of the collar, so I'll probably have to rip out what I've done so far, start over with the new yarn, then switch to the remainder of the yarn I'm using. So there is a yarn purchase in my future. <br />
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Stress sometimes gives me a lot of nervous energy, so one weekend I used it to clean the sewing room (a bit) and sort through the stash. This:<br />
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is 27 skeins of yarn LEAVING the house. There were two large cones of yarn that left as well, which emptied an entire tub of yarn. YAY! Charlie was thrilled:<br />
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With the cleaning, I found where I'd stashed the top for this, </div>
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so it is now finished, and........<br />
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I finished the applique quilt I started 2 or 3 years ago!!!!! It broke 3 needles and sent my new machine in for it's first repair, but it is DONE! (And my machine is back home and functional again) I need to add a sleeve to the back so it can be hung on a wall, but at least that is the easy part. When blogger isn't having issues, I'll post a full picture.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-3181301560199694562020-06-29T07:23:00.000-06:002020-06-29T07:23:09.002-06:00It's been a while..........<br />
The new job is going well, but busy. Idaho had shut down, reopened, and after reopening bars, is having huge spikes in coronavirus. Lots of Fox News followers here, so they flip between the virus being some worldwide hoax against them or Trump, masks either don't let oxygen through OR won't stop virus particles--the really idiotic going with both--and certainly, not following protocols. <br />
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Idaho has also had funnel clouds, an earthquake (with hundreds of aftershocks), flooding, and the mountains are getting snow today. Our new term is "disaster exhaustion." Thank heavens for crafting and kitties!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-59156420721650386042020-03-18T18:19:00.000-06:002020-03-18T18:19:21.280-06:00And Now There Are NineIdaho got it's first confirmed corona virus case Friday, and we're already at 9 confirmed cases with at least 37 people being monitored. Most cases were from people bringing it in, though I think 4 cases are untraced and are all in a pretty small population base, so it in the population in general in some areas. Being a state that loathes government, the governor is leaving everything to counties and cities. so things are uneven and confusing with some cities acting quickly to stop the spread and others still pretending it's a hoax, so I'm sure THAT will turn out well. Andy's company and my new company have already sent everyone home to work, so it's nice to be part of organizations taking this seriously. Meanwhile,<br />
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Andy's Valentine's Day shirt is finished except for some hand stitching and buttons. Clearly, not exactly on time. <br />
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I'm still on the Spicy Spiral marathon,<br />
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and will be frantically finishing this one<br />
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for a charity auction for my local Boys & Girls club. Normally, their major fundraiser would be coming up in just a few weeks, but it's had to be cancelled because of coronavirus, just at the same time demand for their services is going up, so we're switching to just an online auction. There's always an online portion, but that is usually donated items like restaurant gift cards. This year, that's a bit more problematic because I don't know any restaurants not hurting for money, so I'll probably go buy a gift card or two to put with this, and Andy is donating a piece he made with the new laser cutter, and we'll hope for the best....and send them a check. <br />
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The cats are loving having the humans home,<br />
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though Charlie gets a bit impatient when there isn't enough sewing happening:<br />
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I've also been doing some gardening, and we have our first flower:<br />
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This week I'm choosing to be excited even about a weed blooming. I think the world needs a splash of spring color right about now, don't you think?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-20224605704968561082020-03-08T10:58:00.003-06:002020-03-08T10:58:51.808-06:00Those Were Fast MonthsAnd we're already into March. WOW.<br />
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* I was offered a very exciting job on Friday and also had an interview for another great job that morning, so it was a REALLY great day. <br />
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* Charlie has now experienced catnip:<br />
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* My parents are moved into their new house and are loving it. Their housewarming gift is in progress:<br />
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The colors are a bit more subdued than the picture. For the most part, I like my new phone, but the picture colors are overly intense. <br />
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* While trying to find fabrics that I thought would work for the fall colors they wanted, I found some fat quarter sets on clearance, so I'm on a Spicy Spiral binge, this being the latest:<br />
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Charlie is helping:<br />
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* We're gone through so many gifts lately that I've been working on bowls as well,<br />
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including working out some new shapes:<br />
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* I finished the socks I was working on, and immediately cast on a new pair: <br />
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because self-patterning sock yarns enchant me. The plan is to keep these,unless I've forgotten a birthday or other gifting necessity before the next pair is finished. <br />
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* The job-hunting process has been very intense the last two months, with lots of phone screens, interviews, and ghosting by recruiters, as well as one very memorable experience with a credit union that asked for an application, then a personality test that they swore was important, then a phone screen, in-person interview on a snowstorm day where I got to wait in the lobby for half an hour BEFORE my interview, only to have them decide that none of us were good enough for their not even high-level position, so they threw all of us out and started over. To add insult to injury, they're rated as one of the top employers in Idaho, but as are wages are among the lowest in the nation, that might not be saying that much.<br />
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* No matter what kind of decent behavior I swear I'm going to exhibit, I can NOT be trusted with a credit card and a flower catalog in February.<br />
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* We have been going at SUCH a fast pace that this is our NOTHING weekend--nothing scheduled, no plans, not having anyone over--which took several weeks to make happen. <br />
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* We've decided that the window for our Valentine's handmade gift exchange is really anytime before the nest Valentine's day rolls along. I got part of Andy's new shirt cut out, and if we can distract Charlie long enough, I hope to cut out the rest today. <br />
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* We've decided that we might not be good season-ticket sort of people, as it feels like adding pressure to an already busy schedule, but we did enjoy finally seeing STOMP a couple weeks ago, though the show lasts about 30 minutes longer than our interest in percussive exploration does. <br />
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* Idaho does not yet have the corona virus, but Idaho DOES have corona virus panic. We hadn't thought about it, until mistakenly deciding to stop by Costco on the way home last Sunday and experiencing Black Friday level crowds hoarding toilet paper, but still crowding around all those food samplings and snaffling them off the trays touched by hundreds of other shoppers' hands. <br />
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* My hellebores are getting ready to bloom, and either they take longer to go from bud to bloom than ANY other flower, or I am just super-anxious for some early color. I check them twice a day. :)<br />
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* We're hoping things are a bit less hectic going forward. Or hectic in new ways. That would work as well............<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-26906038111687741692020-01-11T21:23:00.000-07:002020-01-11T21:23:10.200-07:00I Used The Glue Gun Without Burning Myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm not sure I'll have a prouder accomplishment all year--or a more surprising one. I think I have a few fingerprints left.<br />
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Andy is gone for the weekend, so the kitties and I are having a crafting weekend. With their help, <br />
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I finished the first project of the year.<br />
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The colors are a bit more subdued in real life, but I don't know how to reduce the intensity of this cell phone's camera. I also cut some more strips for other projects, and wound another Hank from Hell:<br />
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A couple years ago I bought some Feza Rio that was on clearance, and for a cashmere/merino blend, it's not at all soft, and until this yarn, I didn't know one could hank yarn badly, but there does seem to be a way to do it so unevenly that permanent kinks are put into the yarn, and if that weren't enough fun, <i>rather than being normal human beings who tie the ends into the threads holding the hank in place, </i>these deranged maniacs tied the two ends together and snipped off the ends so that the only way to find them is to dig through the strands inch by inch. And since it is a scratchy yarn, the rounds of yarn get caught on each other. Probably serves me right for impulse buying yarn because it was on sale, but I'm rather hoping the current project doesn't require all 5 hanks. <br />
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11 days down, 49 projects to go. I can do this!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-36091037580974287342020-01-05T09:11:00.002-07:002020-01-05T09:11:27.040-07:00And We're Off.........Happy new year everyone!<br />
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So, I didn't reach either of my crafting goals for last year, but I did use up 96 yards of fabric, which would really be making a dent in the stash if I hadn't also<b> bought</b> quite a bit of fabric last year. Oops.<br />
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There were a few late-finish projects, like another teal rope bowl,<br />
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more flannel pajamas which I am currently wearing, and another rope bowl which was promptly gifted:<br />
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Since I had to work the day after and day before Christmas, we decided to not have our traditional open house & game night, and instead had fun making homemade falafel and pitas--with Charlie helping herself to a pita,<br />
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hanging out in the trees,<br />
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helping organize the sewing room,<br />
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and enjoying some new toys from a friend:<br />
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Valentino has been slowest to warm to Charlie, probably because HE was the baby before her, but she's determined to wear him down:<br />
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For New Year's Eve, I won a trip for two to Phoenix to attend a Jim Brickman concert (enter to win a trip for two to Las Vegas <a href="https://www.jimbrickman.com/contests/">here</a>), and while like so many songwriters, I knew his songs but not his name, we had a great time. Jim and his staff are really nice people, and we spent a day at the <a href="https://mim.org/">Music Instrument Museum</a>, which is wonderful. I'm not a huge fan of Arizona because of its politics, so I wouldn't have visited on my own, but it is interesting to see an area driven by old age. There are doctors and hospitals EVERYWHERE, dinner specials start at 4:00, and we learned that there are "silver alerts" to notify residents that a senior who shouldn't be driving has taken a vehicle and is now loose on the roads, which is unnerving to learn <i>while on the freeway</i>. Um, yeah....<br />
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Of course, a trip needs travel knitting, and since none of my existing projects were a good candidate, <br />
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I started a new sweater. It's on size 3 needles, so not a fast project, but it made a great travel project. However, I think this makes sweater WIP #20 or something ridiculous like that, so I think it's time to finish a few of them. As soon as I find them all..........Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-72109544732034011622019-12-25T17:47:00.002-07:002019-12-25T17:55:19.455-07:00Holiday GreetingsIt’s hard to say when a house starts to really feel like home, but if it’s when one starts having to fix things, then this was the year we settled into the new house. 2019 started off with a roof leak into our dining room, the death of my old washing machine, and a leak under the sink, so we’re very, VERY settled into the new house. And just in case we weren’t, in August we adopted a stray kitten we found (Charlie) who is busily tearing apart anything left standing. For those counting, Charlie brings the feline population to 4, though some days it feels more like 9 or 10, especially during shedding season.. <br /><br />Andy continues liking his new job, and is enjoying being close to Bogus Basin and ran to work regularly in order to train for the Mesa Falls Marathon in August (in the mountains, so not as hot as that sounds). For those not familiar, Mesa Falls is in eastern Idaho near Ashton, where the interstate gives up and goes back to being a highway. We found a very charming hotel from the 1930s with plumbing from the 1940s, and enjoyed exploring the upper and lower falls, part of Yellowstone, and a shortcut that has no business pretending to be a road on any map not made exclusively for hiking or goats. Andy says the scenery along the marathon route was breath-taking, but so is running 26+ miles. <br /><br />I, on the other hand, have joined a radio station as a marketing consultant. I now do radio and digital advertising, and haven’t had to deal with city planning/permits or measure anything in the snow or rain for months--which might explain the recruiter’s timing. I did have to warn them that I have no idea who anyone is in pop culture and proved it by getting lots of “big” names wrong--including our music festival headliner--but it actually hasn’t been a problem since I’m rarely in my clients’ target market. I can, however, write commercial scripts, so I think it balances out that I called our headliner, Pitbull, by the wrong breed of dog. I had the right species. <br /><br />After much research, Andy bought a laser-cutter this year, and has already made several new wall decorations for the house. I believe several friends have scheduled playdates for when the garage is slightly warmer. <br /><br />And after delaying as long as possible, I am now going through braces for the SECOND time, and either they hurt much more than I remember, or I have grown into a complete wimp. However, I am now a wimp with a large repertoire of blended meals. 11 months to go for Straight Teeth, take two. <br /><br />Hope this finds you all well and enjoying a healthy and happy holiday season, and wishing you a wonderful 2020. <br /><br /> <br />This year we have learned….<br />
● That it doesn’t matter if the bag did happen to mention which lilies were the tallest if one doesn’t bother to read the label<br />
● Planting 180+ bulbs wasn’t much fun, but watching them come up really was--right until a deer ate them<br />
● One’s inner child may never age, but the toys get a LOT more expensive<br />
● The learning curve with a laser-cutter is finding the exact point between not cutting all the way through and erupting into flames. This is best done in a well-ventilated garage, possibly when one’s spouse is absent.<br />
● With a crazy enough kitten, “climbing the walls” is not a figure of speech<br />
● Even as exhausting as Charlie’s antics are, it’s impossible to get mad at her. If I could ever have leapt that far above my own head, my parents would have been fishing me off of every barn we had<br />
● Some of us are clearly incapable of being foster homes for animals<br />
● If done well, even jazz music played on an accordion can be enjoyable<br />
● Never get a touchscreen laptop if one has cats<br />
● A “sewing room” sounds like it should be clean, so I have started referring to mine as a “studio.” It really takes the pressure off.<br />
● There is no such thing as kitten-proof if the kitten in question is Charlie<br />
● It is possible to melt slate with a laser-cutter. Not advisable, but possible<br />
● The “Charlie compromise” with the Christmas trees is no lights or decorations, removing the top from the 9-foot tree, and moving it into the center of the room so she can’t use it as a pathway to the windows above the door or anything else. <br />
● If a phone cord isn’t charging, one of the first things to check HERE is whether a kitten has chewed it into multiple pieces. <br />
● A group of cats is called a “clowder.” We thought it best to know what we wake up to each morning.<br />
● It is possible to hear yarn. It doesn’t matter where Charlie is in the house, but if I try to take out my knitting, Charlie is there before the sock even gets out of the bag.<br />
● The gardening book that we REALLY need is the one which states which shrubs can be safely trimmed back and which one it only encourages<br />
● Most people one meets when running are pretty cool, a few are weird. It’s best to be able to outrun the latter.<br />
● Visiting Yellowstone Park involves more alert driving than I dreamed. Either one is stalking people in the parking lots to try to get their spots when they leave or one is trying not to run into cars or pedestrians pulled off the sides of the road to get dangerously close to animals that can outrun and kill them.<br />
● A rest stop in southeastern Idaho has one of those explanatory signs about the importance of sagebrush. How can one not love the optimism that travelers will be THAT curious about the only plant visible for 50 miles in either direction and pretty much all of Nevada? <br />
● Nothing says “love” like eating soft foods with your wife every time her braces get tightened, just for moral support Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-1817766894463918062019-12-01T14:28:00.000-07:002019-12-01T14:28:02.453-07:00One Month LeftDecember 1, and yesterday I finished projects 40:<br />
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and I am taking a vacation day tomorrow. There's a shirt I finally got cut out in spite of Charlie's help,<br />
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and there could be some machine embroidery.....<br />
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Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. We went to the family ranch for what will hopefully be the last Thanksgiving there. Theoretically, the ranch is finally sold, though it was supposed to close last week and didn't so one never knows. We only spent one night there, partly because with the television on <i>all the time</i> and my family's tendency to squabble over even little things, it was loud and exhausting, but also because Charlie was spayed last weekend and we were <i>attempting</i> to keep her quiet.<br />
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which is a lot to ask of a kitten who has just discovered that she can climb the 9-foot Christmas tree. <br />
You can perhaps guess how far up the smaller tree she gets:<br />
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It seems this tree is the perfect place to chase one's own tail. And yet she looks so innocent...<br />
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Yesterday I started <i>yet another</i> project, but at least this is a very quick pattern, <br />
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and will need minimal quilting. Clothes burn through the fabric stash a lot faster, but quilts are good projects to work on in the evening--or will be as soon as I figure out where to hide the pinned pieces so Charlie can't eat the pins. We've learned there really isn't such as Charlie-proof, but there are some obvious things we know to avoid. She's adorable, but she is quite a handful. After we took the trees apart to stop her from climbing them while she had stitches, <br />
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she figured out how to climb onto the window <b>above the doors.</b> I put the trees back together as at least she can climb DOWN from the trees. I don't think I own any Christmas decorations that can be considered Charlie-proof........... <br /><b></b><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-18970605791839448762019-11-02T08:22:00.000-06:002019-11-02T08:22:12.762-06:00Another Fast Month Goes By....As you might have guessed from the general lack of activity on this blog, the new job is pretty demanding. October was our big "sale," so there was tons of pressure to get everything signed leading up to it, but of course now that it's over, the pressure hasn't let up. Plus they're remodeling the office to an "open office" design--throwing out, of course, the egalitarian origins of no offices for management--and just taking away all personal space from the sales team. Originally, they were just going to send us home to work during the remodel, but then no one could micromanage, so even though there's no real space,we're expected to show up and work in the office, regardless. Did I mention that I think we're up to 11 or 12 people leaving just since I started?<br />
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I've been knitting a lot to reduce stress, which really isn't helping, though I'm getting a sweater out of it:<br />
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The back and now both fronts are done, and I'm working on the sleeves. I made so much progress during our trip for Andy's marathon that I've just kept with this sweater, and while finishing 5 before the end of the year might not be possible, finishing this one certainly is. We also took a crafting weekend last weekend, and I got the top done for what might be one of my favorite color schemes for the Spicy Spiral runner done:<br />
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I also attempted my first large rope bowl,<br />
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with lopsided results. We're calling it "artistic."<br />
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There have been a lot of kitty cuddles. I think some of it has to do with how cold it's gotten already, but it's still cute.<br />
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Happy November, my friends!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-67729038874432361382019-09-15T10:42:00.000-06:002019-09-15T10:42:08.384-06:00Goals v. CharlieIt's September, and I'm 14 projects away from my goal of 50, and 5 projects away from my goal of 6 finished quilts, sweaters, or shawls. And I have a new helper:<br />
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Believe it or not, I am making <i>some</i> progress on quilting the dragonfly quilt, partly because Charlie can sleep/play under the table I bought for the new machine,<br />
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and I can still actually quilt--unlike her version of helping me cut fabric:<br />
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I don't have a picture of her "helping" me knit because I'm diving to save the yarn too quickly. She can hear me taking knitting out of the bag from across the house, so the only knitting I'm really doing is in my car or outside, which at least is getting easier now that it's no longer 100 degrees, but I'm still not that close to finishing a sweater right now. <br />
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To <strike>preserve my sanity</strike> speed things up, rather than using the quarter-inch channels I'm using on the squares, I did half-inch channels for one side of the blocks, </div>
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and am thinking about just doing two lines of stitching on the remaining pink strips going the other direction. There are 8 rows of blocks, and I've done the itty-bitty lines on two and a half, though it feels like I've been doing them <i>forever. </i>Still, I'd like to get this thing finished so we can use it, though I might wait until Charlie is a bit less of a terror. <br />
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I'll admit, I need regular breaks from wrestling with that quilt, so I'm cutting out the last of the fat quarter sets I bought for Spicy Spiral runners. I had actually forgotten I bought this green set,<br />
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though it's someone's new favorite, <br />
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already have one set of strips ready to go, and am slowly getting two more sets ready to go,<br />
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and for these two, I'm cutting whatever is left into strips for fabric bowls, so it's taking just a bit longer but I won't have to re-iron later, which is always a bonus. And if I can get all 3 runners done plus 2 bowls, that would only leave 9 more projects to finish by the end of the year. It could happen, right......?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187154004946294016.post-42476030230156311692019-09-14T09:31:00.000-06:002019-09-15T09:32:13.404-06:00FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Back in 2007, I started a pair of flannel pajamas for Andy as a Christmas present out of what I thought was a fun coffee print,<br />
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only to discover after making the pants, that I was about a yard short for the top. We searched Joann stores everywhere, friends searched--nothing. <b>Three years later</b>, I gave up and bought some brown flannel. Andy actually never wears brown because his mom insisted on dressing him in brown when he was a kid and he's never worn it since, but for the sake of a finished set of pajamas, he agreed to try. However, <a href="https://yarnontheside.blogspot.com/2010/09/okay-im-ready-to-talk-about-it-now.html"><i>when I started cutting, I found I hadn't bought enough of the ugly brown flannel either!</i></a> And it was probably around this time when I discovered I didn't know where the pajama-top-in-progress was, so mixing the two fabrics was out. <br />
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When Andy and I were driving back from our trip to Ashton and Yellowstone, we stopped along the way for lunch in a town that just happened to have a Joanns, and by this time I'd acquired ANOTHER piece of flannel that was too short because now the regular Joanns flannel is a new we're-so-cheap-we've-invented-a-new-skinny-width and one must add about a yard and a half of extra material to compensate.........which I didn't know until after I bought it, and clearly after I walked out the door with my insufficient flannel, my local stores gathered up any remaining bolts of that particular print and set fire to them, as no less than 4 stores AND the online ordering no longer had it. The store we visited DID still have some, and<br />
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they had a coffee print that was close enough to work, and the following weekend I immediately made a new pajama top before I could lose the pattern, the fabric, or Andy and <b>just short of twelve years later, </b>Andy has a finished pair of pajamas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Just call me Speed...................<br />
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