How is it Thursday...

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...it's seems like yesterday was Monday! The week has flown by!

Time for some catch-up and a WIP recap.
  1. I met up with a friend for Craft Coffee on Monday. She moved out of the area a couple of years ago, and was in town for a few days. It was nice catching up!
  2. Spin-In was Saturday and I finished spinning the singles for Arcade [Ravelry].
  3. I spent a lot of time during the weekend rearranging furniture in my studio. I'm trying to figure out how to make room for my computers without sacrificing too much floor space. I definitely need a desktop and possibly a new cube unit to shift things around.
  4. In the process of moving things around, I went through all of my quilting, knitting, and stitching books. I culled out a banker's box worth of books that I will never use, which freed up a shelf to use for my project binders.
  5. Work has been busy, which is both a pain and a joy. The joy part is that it's busy because we're trying to figure out who's going to do my job when I retire at the end of the year! Yay!

    Throw in some early preparation for open enrollment, and my work day flies by!
  6. I got a new Windows laptop and I'm in the process of setting it up. The plan is to have it run my cross stitch software and some other desktop publishing software. Then I can get back to the designs that I started years ago and have not had time to finish.
  7. I know this doesn't sound like a lot for the last week, but each one of these is time-consuming!
Oh and I finally took photos of the finished hat. This is Cozy Red Hat 2 [Ravelry]:

Cozy Red Hat 2

Specs:
Started 7/20/19
Finished 9/15/19
No pattern
Yarn: TLC Ultra Soft in Claret
Modeled by Borg, the Office Moose


WIPs Roll Call
Worked On:
  1. Arcade handspun (spinning) [Ravelry]
    Started chain-plying
  2. Cozy Red Hat 3 (knitting) [Ravelry]
    Still working on the ribbing.
  3. Saratoga Calypso Shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
    Started on row 8 and found an error. With the help of a knitting friend, the error was fixed and I'm back on track.
In the Queue
  • Renaissance Mermaid (cross stitch)
Works In Progress, Did Not Work On This Week:
  1. Finishing work for some old crewel pictures (sewing)
  2. Look Through My Window quilt for me (quilting)
  3. Malachite (needlepoint)
  4. Saratoga Calypso Shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
  5. Shimmering Points Wrap (weaving) [Ravelry]
  6. Valley of the Heart's Delight sampler design (cross stitch)
UFOs/Hibernation:
  1. Be My Baby for My Baby (knitting) [Ravelry]
  2. Bear Paw pottery (needlepoint)
  3. Estrella Marina Shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
  4. Mother of Dragons shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
  5. Peacock Majesty by Just Nan (cross stitch)
  6. Tucson Twilight (needlepoint)

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