Summing up the month

This ends January. The first month of the year on the Western Calendar. A time of no resolutions (hence no guilt because we all know they don’t last longer than it takes to write them down. At least for me…. queue the clipboard for example..)

I added  two projects to the finished pile – Tiny Modernist’s Fairy Tales  

& The Witchy Stitcher’s Cryptids to the finished pile. 

I have frames left to finish on last year’s Zodiac & Seasonal Skies stitch alongs. Not finished this month, but progress made on both as well as progress on several sections of Alice. Maple Lane Trolley & Rooky Woods are two more stitch-alongs from last year which still have portions to be released. 

And January has been a month of new starts for formal Stitch-a-Longs  (Folk Art House – Ship’s Manor, ABC Dinos – Clouds Factory, Temperature Bookcase – Kristi’s Corner, Red Riding Hood – The Frosted Pumpkin, Supernatural Monsters – Malice Domestica).

And then there is the start on the Spangler book – 

 

More importantly, I did some organizing, sorted out clothes, and accomplished a few of those domestic tasks that we all complain about. I read some books, listened to some audio books. Finished watching US Football…

What I didn’t do: Dani & I didn’t get our cruise to Hawaii which might have explained the increase in stitching time; I didn’t get any packages mailed which means a stack for this week; and I didn’t get all the planned sewing done. 

Overall, a decent start to the year. 

 

 

 

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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