So Much to Do. So Little Time.

I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again--if I were to retire today and then live to be 100, I'd never be able to use all the fabrics and yarns and cross-stitch kits and needlepoint I've already got in this house. Let alone those I'm sure I'll buy in the future.

I knit. I crochet. I just got the stuff to learn how to nook and I've tried it, but its a lot harder than they made it look on-line. But I'm sure with some more practice... I do cross-stitch, even though I now need a good magnifier so I can see the holes in the fabric. I sort of do needlepoint (not very good at that one). I quilt.

I've got a closet full of fabric. My walk-in closet contains two large bins and a giant duffle bag full of yarn and there's more in the attic! I've got plans and patterns for a quilt that illustrates the annual cycle of a maple tree and another one that's a Sunbonnet Sue. I've got a whole bunch of circa 30s fabrics set aside just for that one. I've got enough sock yarn to make a pair for every day of the month and then some. And yarn that I've targeted for sweaters and scarves, but a bunch of it I have no idea what I want to make with it. The giant duffle bag contains yarn for an afghan I want to knit that is modeled after one I saw on the Turner Classic Movie channel this summer.

I've saved cross-stitch patterns for decades because, some day, I want to make it. I have needlepoint tapestries that would take me months to do if that's all I did. I've got books on how to customize sweaters, how to make sweaters men want to wear (even though I don't have the man to wear them), and an almost endless number of patterns for hats, scarves, socks, afghans, and more.

Right now, I have a piece of cross-stitch started that I want to give to a friend. I've got a snood about three-quarters of the way done. Not sure what a snood is? Sort of a cross between a cowl and a hood. I have a pair of socks with one sock nearly done that uses a new heel design. I have two other socks done. No, they don't match. I hope to finish up their mates some time in my life. And I have a quilt top that's (maybe) half-way done stuck up on my living room wall.

Good Lord! I must be totally insane. But one thing's for sure--I'm never bored! LOL.