This was my year to get back on the crafting horse, and it worked out pretty well in the end. It has been a year and half since I thought it would be a good idea to try to make quilts again, and I spent several months working on planning my first quilt in many years. Then I was diagnosed with cancer, had a very rocky course of chemotherapy that involved almost as many unplanned admissions to the hospital as planned ones, and I did not make any more progress on that goal, no surprise there, than to start to embroider pillow cases again. Considering, that was probably pretty good--I did give my immediate family a pillow case that I had embroidered for the holidays last year, but that was all I managed. I got chemotherapy the week after Christmas, and by New Years Eve I was terribly sick in the intensive care unit. Then came the spring. I finished the hardest part of chemo, and I started taking a couple of classes at my local sewing shop, starting very slowly with a napkin making class. It was just what I needed. I have made literally dozens of napkins since, enough to give lost of people home made ones, and I have finished four quilts, have one that I am quilting now, and I also made ten really cool market bags, a very impressive case to carry my sewing supplies to classes in, and have a couple of other projects enough under way that I feel sure that I will finish them. Even better, I set up a place to sew that works for me, and made doing all of this pleasurable. So I have big hopes for 2017.
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