Time for a Rest

After missing four deadlines and winding up with RSI and perhaps arthritis, I am finally finished with work for the year.

The news came on the heels of a new book arriving in the post. Artfully Embroidered was a book I had to have in print, and is every bit as beautiful as it promised to be.

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That’s most of the craft books I’ve bought this year in print. I get most as ebooks these days. Aside from the fact they take up no physical space in my now-smaller craft room, I find buying craft books online can be a bit hit and miss and the lower price of ebooks offsets that. Nothing beats being able to leaf through a book before you buy, and know you want to try more than just the project on the cover – and that the project aren’t way beyond your skills or ability (especially important when you have RSI).

As far as actual crafting… I need to rest my hands for the next month, but so long as I don’t overdo it I can do a bit of this and a bit of that. I finished the stitching on the Kogin embroidery tissue holder project the other night.

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But since I don’t know where you can buy tissues in packs that would go in one, I really enjoyed the process and I have plenty of thread, I’m repeating the pattern across the middle and will make it a zippered pouch.

I’ve also started a new project, but more on that later.