Wow! Almost a month!

I just realized how long it has been since my last post. I have been very busy.

I am unemployed. I was laid off from my job and haven't been having much luck finding a new one. I started this blog because I have been crafting more and wanted a record of my work.

I am as busy, if not more so, as when I was employed, but now I am making time to craft. For one thing, I can crochet while I read job ads. I couldn't do that at work!

I am getting crochet and crafting done, just haven't finished anything yet for various reasons.

I may be getting a commission for a baby blanket! I made one recently for my mother to give to a coworker who just became a great-grandmother. Everyone loved it! The new mother was showing off her baby in the blanket and now another relative of my mother's coworker wants one!

I used to sell Avon to the coworker, so she asked my mother to ask me if I was willing to take a commission. Now I have to figure out how to charge for it, besides the yarn. I've only done crochet for family, who bought the yarn for me.

So here's what is on my plate right now:

Crochet:
1. 2 baby dresses. I started a second when I ran out of yarn last week for the first. I have to go back to my LYS to get another skein. The pattern book I am using just said 6 oz of a type of yarn that I didn't want to use. I made a big mistake in translating that into yards. The owners of my LYS said they were out of the dye lot I had bought, but if what they have doesn't match, there is a website for finding a dye lot they can use to get my yarn. I don't want to spend a lot on another skein, so I may try using a different color to finish the dress if what they have in stock won't work. It's missing the last few inches at the bottom of the skirt and the sleeves.

2. The Chic Ripple cardigan out of Crochet Cardigans. For my mother. Of course, she's an in-between size, so now I have to study the pattern to see I can alter the pattern to fit her. The small is too small and the medium is too big!

3. Baby blanket?

Craft:
1. Finish those butterflies I painted. My sister wants one. I need to find a good clear acrylic paint sealer or glaze so I can coat the wings and add them to the bodies already made.

2. Started drawing again. Nothing to write about here.

Sewing
1. 1930's evening gown. I haven't touched it since April. The sewing room just got cleaned, so I can start on it again. Maybe. I need a sewing manniquin.

2. Duct tape sewing manniquin. Needs to be stuffed and put on a stand somehow.


Sigh. I need a job. Being unemployed is wearing me out.