I really don't publish much.
Some of that is because I haven't been doing much; my fibromyalgia has been acting up a lot lately and to add to that, I started new medication that apparently did not play well. I'm hoping I can get on a lower dose or different type of hormone replacement, but until then I am just not taking the current one. (Dr Approved)
What have I been up to, when I'm up to anything, you may ask.
Well- I was contacted in April, I think, by a gentleman who was clearing out his late wife's stash and wondered if I would like to come and see what our smocking group could use. Oh.... there was a LOT of stuff. Two 10x10 bedrooms and part of the garage were absolutely crammed full, and that was after they had removed two pickup truck loads. I've been going through several bins and boxes of thread, fabric, floss, magazines and books.,and patterns. And more fabric... I called in reinforcements from our chapter, and she also acquired two SUV loads of fabric which she distributed to Dress A Girl and a couple other organizations. I think she still has unsorted boxes as well. Obviously, I was not thinking straight at the time. It isn't as if I don't have enough of my own stash to worry about organizing and using up.... Consequently, not a lot has been achieved in my own sewing room, which is still littered with patterns, boxes of threads and notions, small piles of fabric, and possibly a small car or bus. Every time I go up there to find something I am reminded that I really really need to get back to work up there so I can use it as a sewing room rather than a hoarder's sewing annex. *sigh*. There's really a lot.
I've done a bit of hand stitching on a smocked sampler, have started a new project from Mary Corbet (Little Blooms), and wound innumerable skeins of floss onto bobbins. There has been a little bit of gardening and yardwork now that the fibro is backing off a bit. I spend about a half hour a day learning Dutch on Duolingo. Mostly, there has been reading. I think I'm reading about a book every day: I've gone through the Dan Padanova Wolf Lake Mystery Series and am on book 5 of the Thomas Shepherd mysteries. The Raven Song and The Raven Spell by Luanne G Smith snuck in there somehow, and various quilting, sewing and cooking cozies as well as some instruction booklets and magazines. Oh, yes, I'm also researching information on shell edge hems and writing an instruction leaflet as I'll likely be teaching the group on the 8th.
I suppose if you add in the reading and the weekly laundry and housework, I have been doing things. I'm not sure anyone wants to read about me starting to fold my tshirts differently so that I can fit more in a drawer, or the Quest For Jeans That Fit which my husband solved for me. I have no idea why he can find jeans in my size online looking at the Same Site that I was just on and they didn't have them, but hey, I'll take em how I can get em. (Apparently I no longer wear the size I thought I did, so we had to order two more pair in a smaller [yay] size. The others are in the mountain of mending and alterations which I will get to as soon as I can find my sewing machine.). I'm working some very slow general decluttering into the mix, as well.
Until Halloween... (probably), take care!
