This spring is so different from any that I’ve known for the past 20-plus years.
I haven’t been working in the garden at all, save for one day in March, when it was technically winter but felt like summer. I’m glad that I have a good many perennials, be it herbs or flowers or asparagus and rhubarb, to provide sustenance and beauty during this downtime. My tomato plugs arrive late next week. I have ordered many of the varieties from last year, as well as a few new-to-me heirlooms. Otherwise, I haven’t planted a thing and it sort of haunts me. I shall be sure to toss some seeds in the soil while establishing the tomato plants.
I haven’t completed (or started) too many projects around here. I made a beach tote. I like it better for linens.
The shawl is coming along slowly. I’m at over 60 motifs and I’m thinking that I might need 150 or so. I try not to think about that and just focus on one stitch at a time, as I did with the rainbow granny stripe afghan that I finished last spring. I finally took a somewhat proper photo of it, and I also snapped it with a granny stripe pillow that I fashioned this winter.
I hope to be back on track with gardening and basket weaving and crocheting and cooking and other household projects soon. There won’t be a lot of quantity with regards to activity, so I will be, as always, focusing on the quality.
What a beautiful bag! And you take such gorgeous photos of even the simplest things. I hope you are able to get to some of those things you want to do. Feel better soon!
I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately and am glad to see your post. That is a lovely bag no matter what you fill it with.
Darla
Jodi, that rainbow granny stripe afghan is gorgeous!
I hope you are able to do at least one thing every day that brings you peace/joy/happiness. ♥
“focusing on the quality not the quantity” . Wise words of advice for many areas of our lives I think.
Be well- as well as you can be Jodi- your crochet work is lovely!