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Burying myself in projects.

January 29, 2017 Marie Leave a Comment

I’ve found myself jumping head-first into projects, even though I know it will most likely take me forever to do them. New knitting projects, spinning projects, quilts… The news here in the US is far too depressing, and I find myself seeking comforts of fabric and yarn between my fingers and cheerfulness that is needed both because of political climate and general January blues. This sunny, bright quilt, which I like to call my picnic quilt, has turned out to be just the thing I needed this weekend. The bright colors, the relatively easy construction… my soul needed this. Even with Danger Boy getting into everything, destroying his room and my craft room while I worked, it was more relaxing than it should have been.

I bought all of this fabric at Joann’s, though I bought it months and months ago so who knows if they still have it. A lot of prints are Koko Lee, the rest are misc from from the quilt fabric section. When I found the berries print I knew immediately that they were begging to be made into a picnic quilt. I have these (probably delusional) ideas that Danger boy and I will go to the park and have picnics this next summer. It all sounds very lovely, and I’m sure the realities will be the exact opposite. I highly doubt I’ll get to lounge under a tree and read or knit while he goes and plays. A girl can dream…

 

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