Textileophile

I think finishing that massive cross stitch project is still affecting me.  I am having a really hard time absorbing myself into crafty things.  I'm even having a difficult time getting a new blog out.  What do I talk about when I've been so unfocused? Well, that's not entirely accurate in the first place, I found myself eyeing my puzzle collection.  I haven't done a proper jigsaw puzzle since my brother came out in December 2019! Well, since we last spoke, I did many of them: The bottom two were new!  I ordered them around the time that I finished the first puzzle.  I could feel that puzzling was going to be a 'thing' for awhile. I was a great puzzle adopter.  I adopted puzzles from a few people who were moving or didn't want them, and that's cool, but I didn't get to choose the puzzles.  So, I would never in a thousand years choose a puzzle of Chicago, I've never even been there!  So getting a few new puzzles that I got to pick was exciting!  I

On abandoned Works In Progress (WIPs):  On this blog I've talked about a few projects that have been completely shoved aside.  Either to make room for a new project, or simply abandoned and forgotten about without remorse. The Alice in Wonderland double knit scarf is one.  I haven't touched it since we moved here a year ago, and I don't  plan on finishing it either.  Honestly, the technique is hard on my hands, the scarf was going to end up at least a foot too short as written, and designing extra sections to lengthen it was too difficult for me.  I was not feeling it and life is about a foot too short for me to think about wasting it on a project I'm hating.  The moral of the story is Double knitting is a fun technique for sure, it's the basis for my favorite float catching technique, but entire projects of double knitting are not for me.  That's cool.  Moving on. I started some socks last fall for my mother-in-law that I wasn't really happy with.  Somethin