What A Mess

What a Mess and no, I am not talking about the Coronavirus crisis although that certainly does qualify as a “mess” of epic proportions.

What I am speaking of, however, is my craft area and most specifically, my craft stash.

I have been making masks which forced me to go into the craft closet.  Everything is a hodge podge, clearly just thrown in with our last move almost 3 years ago.  I haven’t been doing much crafting, except for card making, so I haven’t entered the closet of doom.

Ok, so I managed to locate all I needed for the masks and used up some of my stash which is good — well, it doesn’t look like a dent was made in the fabric but I did manage to use up all the elastic.  I am done with masks for a few days because, while it was fun in the beginning, it turned boring and I got a terrible backache from bending over the machine.  And then the machine had a temper tantrum which made me all tense so I made it happy, finished up and decided to move on for a few days to something else.

Specifically cross stitch.

Here is the little Old North Church I mentioned in an earlier post.

It is leaning up again a wooden block that you can see through the fabric.  It was a lot of fun to make and it is really tiny.

I am going to start on of the kits I brought home from New Orleans.  It is a chart of the St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square. It was such a lovely church.

Of course, by that time things were beginning to be cancelled due to the plague so a concert that was supposed to happen didn’t but we got to tour the church.  Since it is such an iconic part of the French Quarter, I decided a chart of it would be an appropriate souvenir.

So, I went upstairs to gather my supplies and I was really annoyed.  At one point, in my craft hoarding life, I managed to buy all the DMC threads.  All. Of. Them.  Well, I couldn’t find about half the colors.  I finally realized they were packaged in other half done kits.  So, I gathered what I could, searched other stuff that was half done and I think I have it all now but there needs to be some serious Marie Kondo -ing of my sewing stuff.  

Well, else do I have to do, right?  I guess this will teach me to quit being so sloppy!

Time for a nap.