Chickens in the Bath

Well, It has been awhile since the last posting.

It certainly has been a while since the the last post. Last September, my husband and I decided it was time to move from our rental house. There were many reasons, but the most important was that the house and garden was too large. We would spend all weekend in a frantic race to clean and maintain the garden and I spent most of the week cleaning and maintaining a house where we didn't use five or six of the rooms. We were both exhausted. We have downsized about 30% to a new rental and we've also been busy here setting up the new house and making it home.

Have I sewn anything? Miles of curtain remaking have occurred.

Have I knit anything? Yes, I've just about finished a sweater, I'm knitting the collar and I've slowed down with the prospect of all the seaming.

Have I embroidered or crocheted? No, not a thing.

What I have excelled at this month is cramming my sewing and hobby room down from a spacious studio to a modest bedroom at the top of the new house. This was good and bad.

Bad: Oh my goodness! I packed away so much stuff in that larger studio. I unpacked shocking amounts of stash fabric, yarn and unfinished projects.

Good: There is no storage in this new room except for open IKEA Ivar shelving.

Bad: I hate to see clutter any where. Do you know clutter makes noise? I can't think with all that "noise" going on.

Good: I'm going to have to confront my problem head on. There is no other solution that to clean up the mess.

Bad: Below is a photo of the mess as a confession to the depth and breadth of the problem. That's one side of the room. The other is just as bad.

Good: There is a goal. Pinned to the beam of the ceiling is a sweater pattern for the only next acquision.

Bad: I'm not going to allow myself that sweater until the shelving is neat and in order.

Good: A confession photo every month? Maybe? Maybe not? Maybe?