Knitting: Well, you saw the socks. I’ve started another pair. Can’t show these, either. River Tweed is chugging along slowly. By the time it’s done it’ll be too warm to wear it.

Weaving: Looms still empty.

The Big Project: The sewing is done but for hand stitching the hems of a pair of pants. You can find more details here at my author blog. The pants I made to test the pattern turned out nicer than I expected, so I’ve been wearing them around the house:

The Sketchbook Project: I haven’t touched it. I keep waiting for some genius idea to pop into my head. Trouble is, my head has been full of Paul’s birthday, writing, selling paintings, the Big Project, the Garage Project and my nearly 19 old cat reaching the end of his days.

Canvas Re-stretching: I got the two smallest ones done when I remembered that I had a few scraps that might be big enough. Still waiting for the canvas blanket to arrive so I can stretch the rest.

Selling Paintings: So far I’ve sold three and have a home for two more. I got three more framed including this one:

And re-stretched this one to a better shape:

Go to my Painting Gallery for prices.

The Garage Project: We like looking at house pron. That is, r*al estat* sites. (It’s amazing the amount of spam you attract if you spell that out properly.) Mostly it’s an interesting exercise in ways we’d alter a place to suit us. It got me thinking about how we don’t need more living space, we need more working space. And that I don’t need it, Paul does, because when we renovated his employment situation was different. So we wrote a wish list and did some brainstorming, and came up with a rather brilliant solution (if I do say so myself): replace the car port with a slightly larger garage and turn the existing garage into Paul’s studio. Which would be like adding a room without adding a room, and fixes lots of little problems like dust getting into the house under the garage door.