In a nice bit of good timing, I’ve run out of preprepared blog posts just as I reached and met my work deadline. And since it was a mid-week deadline and I’ve worked on most of the last two weekends, I’m taking the rest of the week off. Yippee!

However, my back has suffered badly and I need to avoid doing anything that’ll prevent it healing. The garden, which is turning into a weedy wilderness before my eyes in these rain+sun+rain+sun+rain perfect growing conditions, will have to wait. I can’t sit in one spot and read or work on anything crafty for too long, so I’ll be switching from one thing to the next a lot. That probably means having lots of projects on the go. Which is pretty standard for me anyway.

There’s a blanket on the loom, stamps to make and try out, sketches to do, books to read, bookbinding to finish, cards to make, clothes and yarn to dye and refashioning to try.

And there’s a lot of potential refashioning to try now because Paul, having found he could not squeeze any more shirts into his side of the wardrobe, finally gave in and culled them. I was eagerly waiting to see the rejects and expecting three or four shirts to either refashion or cut up for rag rugs. To my surprise the pile of culled shirts was much larger than that:

This pile doesn’t include the three I decided were too nice to cut up and will go to the op shop, and the one that was made of polyester so awful I just cut the buttons off and threw it in the bin.

I’m going to be hunting down all those ‘turn a man’s shirt into…’ tutorials today.