Back at It

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After improvement in my carpal tunnel situation, I’ve landed somewhere between the 6-8 hours/day I was spending on this project and the few minutes at a time I was spending when the hand was acting up. Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon cutting pieces and gluing them to their paper templates. That doesn’t bother my hand like the hand stitching does. Last night I stitched a few star points to their center hexagons. 

This will be the final large rosy that I have to stitch. Then I have oodles of the smaller ones. I haven’t counted just how many. But they should go much faster than the large ones have.

I hope you are all staying well out there. The situation is getting much scarier with some governors planning to call off the lockdown right at the height of the pandemic. I plan to do just as I have been doing--staying home. When I do have to go out, I’m wearing my mask and gloves and staying away from people.

I don’t like being confined to quarters any more than anybody else does. But I know it’s for my own safety as well as the safety of others. I’m blessed to have a home to quarantine in, and to have the luxury of staying safe in it. So many don’t have that luxury. 

A humongous THANK YOU to all the health workers, law enforcement workers, grocery store workers, and all the others who have to go out into the infected air and risk their lives every day. May God hold them up.

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On 04/21/2020, Barbara Anne said ...

So glad you're again able to work on that glorious millefiori project and wish you well on all the littles to come.

I, too, am grateful to have a fulfilling hobby that I love and that is too much fun to see me through these troubled times. The Laundry Basket quilt-along is keeping me happily busy.

The many folks who continue to work to care for the sick, to feed the rest of us, and in all other jobs that keep us going have my heartfelt thanks, too.

Hugs!

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