And Then...

Some days.  I just can't even.  I must have Covid Brain...

Do you feel like that sometimes?  There are days when I get up and think I have so much ambition and I'm going to get so many things done today, and then suddenly it's 4 p.m. and what did I do today?  Nothing.  Good heavens, it seems like the whole YEAR has gone that way!

Squirrel!!

Today for example.  I was going to go down to the sewing room and do some machine embroidery.  I put scallop shells onto linen napkins for baptisms at my church.  I have a stack ready to go.  I have thread and stabilizer.  The design is loaded up.

Instead, after I combed my hair (I really need to schedule a haircut!) and made the bed and took some antacid because breakfast didn't agree with me, I sat down at my desk and started cruising Amazon.  For what, I asked myself?  I don't need a thing.  Well, just let's check out any new books that may have come out since Wednesday... squirrel!

So I decided that I needed to figure out just what I DID finish this year, or at least since Covid made us all stay home more.

First, I made a few shop samples.  This was just a top, someone else quilted it.  There's a kit you can buy, at least there was before Christmas...

This table runner I pieced, quilted and bound.  Granted, the quilting is pretty basic, diagonal lines.

I also knitted a few things, finished completely!  The first big one was Miss E's Harry Styles sweater.

Then I finished a Wave of Change for a gift.  Sadly, no pic of the finished sweater...

This was a UFO that had languished for ages.  Finally finished both of the sleeves and I'm done.

This is a second Wave of Change, modified for stripes.  Again, sadly, no photo of the finished sweater, but it was gifted on Christmas Eve.

The same young man who got the striped WOC sweater got this quilt.   I actually quilted this one too,

with a wavy pattern and swirls.  My shoulders ached for days after doing this on my home machine!

Next thing I found a photo of was this pile of pillow cases.  It's what you do when you have 24 inches of fabric left over.

I completed two quilt tops for the preschool at church and passed them along to our quilter for finishing.  They were auctioned off as a fundraiser for the school.

This was a fun project, I actually did two of them.  Three strands of worsted held together, and crochet with a BIG hook for about three days and you get a basket to store your extra yarn in, or whatever have you.  They fold flat when empty.

I also did a blue top called Traffic Jam, it's a Pat Sloan free project on her website.  I donated this top to our church guild, but I'm so loving these blocks that I have enough for a red top and nearly enough for a green one!

I also knitted about a dozen kitchen dish clothes...

AND I finished this Camaro sweater, which was going to be for me but ended up gifted to Miss A, who liked it a lot.  No pic of the finished sweater yet.  Maybe she'll model it for me.

And masks...

OK, so not such a lost year after all.  Hmmm, I'm inspired to go down to the sewing room again!

Sew on...