I started this jacket months ago. Last May to be precise. And now, finally, it’s finished!

For years now, I had a picture torn from a magazine of a skirt with a gorgeous pattern. It looked like a colored pencil drawing with layers and layers of colored lines. So beautiful.

I’d been waiting not only for inspiration but also for time. With our covid hiatus, I had the opportunity to make a piece that I knew would take a while to finish.

It was last May that I first posted a story about this jacket.

A detail of the front.

I almost always have a hand work project going, either appliqué or beading. During the day I’m at my machine with an audio book or podcast, but at night, if I’m in front of the tv, I always have a needle in hand and a project in my lap.

Watching tv while sewing on a close and detailed project is a good practice because, as you know, you should periodically look up and refocus your eyes. Either look out the window, or at the other side of the room or, for me the easiest because I want to see what is happening, at the tv.

The back.

A detail of the back.

Now, many documentaries, mysteries and drama series later, it is done!

I’m onto another evening television project. Stay tuned.

A pandemic, crazy intense politics and now, a horrific riot in Washington DC. It has not been an easy time. My nerves are shot, how about yours?

Would you like a short reprieve to think about something else?

For the last few months, we’ve been working on a 90 second video focusing on my work. Finding music, the pictures I wanted to show and the general feeling that I wanted to convey, it’s been a wonderful way to put my mind onto something else.

It’s finished now and just yesterday we posted it. It’s on my website and is ready for viewing. Please check it out! You can find it on the first page of my website, scroll down to this picture and click.

And that’s not all. Ever since Covid has disrupted our lives and sent us all to the internet for our social interactions, Sheryl Belson, from the American Sewing Guild’s Plano Chapter, has been interviewing sewing enthusiasts for her online Fireside Chats.

I was delighted when Sheryl asked if I would want to be interviewed and included in one of her Fireside Chats. Yes!

The half hour interview was posted yesterday, please check it out!

A huge Thank You to everyone who helped to put together my video and make it happen! And to Sheryl! And especially to you, who reads my blog, Thank You! Thank You!

Can you believe it? We did it! We got through 2020 and are just about to jump into a brand new year.

I am so looking forward to life with no covid.

And going back to happy visits with friends and family, open restaurants, easy travel, craft shows [!] and all the big and little things that we never even imagined that we might miss if they were taken away form us.

2021, I can not wait.

I am sending all my wishes to you and yours for a happy, healthy, joyful New Year!