While embroidering, I learned why people wear thimbles. I stabbed my thumb so hard it bled. I didn’t notice until I saw the blood on my index finger, but in good news I didn’t get any on my project! After deciding that having my blood, sweat, and tears going into a project was a bit too much for the day. I relaxed for a bit and in the evening decided to make cookie bars.

I completed the French market bag I was crocheting but first I had to frog a completely different project to get the accent yarn I wanted. It was from an entrelac blanket I was crocheting but hadn’t worked on in months. I think it makes a superior bag than it did blanket. I think I am going to steal the yellow yarn that was in that blanket to make another bag….

Oops! I really got into the movie I was watching last night that I didn’t realize I had missed a bunch of stitches on a row of my netting. The problem just kept compounding as I was crocheting mindlessly away. Thankfully frogging (ripping stitches out because you “rip it, rip it”) is easy and I was able to redo the rows.

As it is the end of the month, I’d thought I take inventory of all my obvious works in progress (also known as WIP). Some things like the pair of socks that ride around in my trunk and my mother’s mittens are omitted from this list as they are forever projects. Handwriting I am currently working through copybook #1 of Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship. Most days when I practice I can only get through one page, today I got through two!

My state is under a stay at home order which means I have all sorts of time to craft now. I currently have an embroidery project, several crochet projects, and knitting stashed everywhere. I keep meaning to finish things but a new pattern is always more interesting than the mittens I have been working on for a decade. Completed projects Instead of showing off my current projects, I thought I’d give a tour of recent completed projects that better fit the current mood.