Just Create - Concert t-shirt edition

[dianec42]

What are you up to? What have you gotten done? What do you need encouragement on? Are there any events or challenges you want to share?

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[dianec42]

I have been out of work for just under 1 month.

I went to the Celebration of Needlework in Nashua a few weeks back and met up with an old friend. I didn't spend TOO much at the vendors. (Narrator: She spent too much.) And of course I wanted something simple to work on while I was there so I bought a "small" Mill Hill cross stitch/beading kit and now I have ANOTHER project on the go. In my defense a fair bit of it is already done.

I cut some fabric squares for the memory quilt project, and made a spreadsheet. I'm now having an extended moment of panic because I've gotten to the first rayon shirt and HOLY CRAP rayon is slippery and wiggly.

Unfortunately I have been having a run of really bad brain days. I'm just self-aware enough to know that I should not touch live fabric on those days. But I am getting stressed out about the back of progress on the project.

I have also been doing a hell of a lot of yard work. It's fun and kind of soothing, but OMG it never ends.

On the creative side of yard work, I wrote a little song about garlic mustard and other invasive plants:

This is the weed that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some people started growing it not knowing what it was
And now we're stuck with growing it forever just because
This is the weed that never ends....
(Repeat until chased out of the room)

[alexseanchai]

I have been poking at bookbinding but it has the distinct problem of needing to use craft knives, which my hands are mostly not steady enough for

[dianec42]

Oh no! That sounds so frustrating. I hope you can find a way to do some of it, that sounds really interesting.

[dragonjournal]

I had a computer hiccup and lost three weeks of editing I'd done.

I am le sad.

I've also been writing some. Putting my own experiences into fiction as it were.

[dianec42]

Oof, that's rough! Good luck.

[grayestofghosts]

I cracked open the WIP and began editing and thought like, maybe it's not quite as awful as I thought it was?

[dianec42]

You can do it! Go you!!