Day 2: I haven’t started my project yet what with the family gatherings coming Friday and my delayed finishing of the yellow blanket BUT I do know where my supplies are for the countdown calendar and I am settling on a final design-to-try for my first attempt that will happen Saturday or Sunday.
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Day 3: I haven’t started mine either …
I have been thinking of where I keep my Christmas UFOs / WIPs, but I’ve not actually searched for them yet. I suddenly remembered I had bought some new patterns for Christmas too. I guess I’ll need to do plenty of stitching!
I have the dumbest reason for not crafting. After a few long days at work, I wanted to veg out on the sofa, not sit up at my desk. We tried to install a fan last week, but had to return it to the shop because it was damaged. A new one is on the way, but we’d taken the light fixture off already so now there’s no light in that corner, until the fan arrives 
Tomorrow is a short day (lots of overtime from earlier this week) and it’s wfh so hopefully I’ll get started properly.
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I don’t think that’s a poor reason to take an evening off of Doing Stuff. You worked a ton this week and battled home improvement misadventure with added cranky customer service experiences- if you had tried forcing some craft time you may well have frustrated yourself with silly mistakes and ended up with nothing new to show for your mental energy spent.
These first days are “warm up” days anyway, right? Just remembering where we’ve stashed Christmas supplies is good enough to be considered on-track.
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You’re right, I have done a lot of unpicking stitches recently and that would make me even crankier than not stitching at all. First I have to finish up a late Mother’s Day gift for my mom (I haven’t seen her since before Mother’s Day, I figured I had plenty of time to make a fabric basket for the local foods I’m giving her, but now we’re meeting tomorrow 
) After that I’m ready to get started for Christmas this weekend!
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The post about a prize was around post 1150 if that helps.
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I gathered supplies tonight and one or two hours on the sewing machine would result in a lot of finishes:
Potholder fabric and batting
Way more semi-finished ornaments than I thought, for some I’ve even already picked backing fabric and ribbon.
I do need to finish 1,5 Homer but I remember it’s a quick stitch. That green fabric was from someone else’s stash btw, sat in my drawer for years until someone on LC showed off that Homer pattern.
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I’m still working on this hat. But, I’m going to have to put it aside as soon as I get the yarn I ordered for a baby blanket. My nephew and his wife are due with their first child in late fall, but I just found out her shower is in a month! I thought I’d have until at least September.
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You’ll have to do some high speed knitting on the baby blanket, but you’re a fast knitter, I think you can do it!
I like the yarn you’re using for the hat, is it a Musselburgh again?
I finished two potholders today, my first Christmas craft is officially done 
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Thanks! It is another Musselburgh, and the yarns are a speckled hand-dyed sock yarn and a black lace-weight alpaca-silk. My strategy for destashing my random skeins is knitting hats (and various cold weather accessories) for gifts. Michigan winters are awful, so everyone appreciates a warm hat.
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