Hmmmm?! What ELSE am I making? It's more of what am I NOT making. I love all types of needlework and sewing. I always have some knitting or crocheting project in my basket.
Currently I'm finishing up a round afghan for a set of my grandchildren for this coming Christmas. It's crocheted in pie shapes and each wedge is a color of the color wheel. Then, the border is a single row of each color. There are 15 colors in all. I started it on Valentine's day and all I have to do now is to crochet the border.
I thought it would be fun for them because they are of the age where they're learning about colors, etc. Besides I made one for their father when he was a child. He's now in his 40s, and the old one is still alive and kicking.
I can still remember my children fighting over the afghan when they watched TV. They loved it and my daughter still asks about it.
A couple of days ago I started a Channel sweater for myself in a nice persimmon color. It's knitted and will go pretty quickly as I am a pretty fast knitter.
I've assembled and preshrunk the fabric for a cute Advent calendar for one of Glenn's daughter's family. It'll be quilted and adorned with sequins and beads, so that's next on my agenda.
Two of Glenn's granddaughters have American Girl dolls and I, happily, bought several patterns for outfits for them at our local Hobby Lobby store for 99 cents each. I'm planning on making a couple of outfits for each of their dolls for Christmas.
We've been doing some minor remodeling of the house, mostly paint and wallpaper, and I've designed some unusual window treatments for the living room, den, guest rooms and our bedroom. Have the fabric for them and have done all my calculations as to executing the designs, so I'll begin on them soon.
I'm almost done with the window treatments for the two bathrooms we just totally redid.
Then, there's the zipper that needs to be replaced in my leather motorcycle jacket. Just got the zipper on Saturday. I'm not particularly looking forward to this task, but I know it can be done. I just dread opening up the jacket to get to the zipper.
I have some embroidery and cross stitch that is calling but I think I'll save them for the fall. When the weather gets nice, I like to spend time outside or with Glenn on the Harley.
This retirement thing has been very interesting and productive I must say, but a pleasure because it's given me the time and freedom to do many things I've wanted to do....without the guilt of feeling as though there was something else that HAD to be done.
I've looked at the address on Google and there's nothing but a pile of gravel left - no new housing tract. I suppose he lost his shirt on the deal because of the downturn just at that time.
Way to go, girl!
