Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks

I have a pretty good life.  I am thankful for many, many things in my life.  God, my country, my family, my fabric and yarn stashes, my health.  I have many things for which to be thankful.

A good education.  Grammar that is for the most part good.  Friends.  

Many, many things.

2020 has thrown a monkey wrench into the lives of everyone on the planet.

I believe that every day brings you a choice.  Many choices, actually.  You can get out of bed with a good attitude, or with a bad one.  It's your choice.  So your 2020 monkey wrench can either be a plumbers' tool or a quilt block.  One takes things apart, the other is put together with other blocks to make something.

So how is your Thanksgiving celebration coming along?  Are you making a big dinner and having family over, or will you be by yourself, or with just your household this year?

Hubby and I have seen our families during this 'Safe at Home' time less frequently than we normally would have, but that's OK.  DD and her hubby work in the healthcare system, and all of my grands are actually attending school most of the time, so that puts extra risk to all of our gatherings.

But as things are going along, normal is decidedly not always normal.  One grand got quarantined at home last Monday through the 30th of November.  We decided that dinner together, even Thanksgiving dinner (and football) isn't worth the danger so we decided to postpone it.  Almost at that very hour, the granddaughter in the other family also got quarantined through the beginning of December!

I guess the fact that I had yet to buy a turkey was perhaps a Freudian Slip.  Or my sixth sense was working in the grocery store.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to use my time to finish projects.  And start others.  And hopefully finish the ones I've started!

Here are a few things I'm working on...

This sweater is called Wave of Change.  You can find it on Ravelry.  It's knit in bulky yarn

I found a kit for an embroidered  wool table runner that I bought at the last live Wisconsin Quilt Expo in 2019.  I decided to do the embroidery in the evenings.  The light in the living room is dreadful in the fall and winter but I have a small LED lamp.  But I need the reading glasses to do this, especially threading needles!

The embroidery on the green circle with the plaid topper is seriously off center.  After I finished, I debated pulling it out and redoing it.  But the impulse faded so off-center it stays!

My Woven Ribbons quilt is back from the long-armer, so I need to get going on the binding...if I can locate it in the mess that is my sewing room. 😟

All I need to do is get myself on a regular schedule, instead of staying up until midnight and sleeping
until noon... anyone would think I was taking a page from my oldest granddaughter's book. Hey! I'm
a teenager again! Or I'm reliving my teenaged years. No, not that, I've always been an early to bed,
early to rise person, even when I was an actual teen!

Well, best to get to some of those projects!


Sew or knit on...