January 798th

Finally January is coming to an end! This month has lasted about three years, and it looks like February is going to continue the cold days and colder nights.

Yes, we did have snow in North Carolina. The area where I now live is close to the state capital, and we had a "cone" of dry air that kept us from getting the deeper snows that hit other areas in the state. I am not going to mention that the dry air might be caused by the hot air coming from the state legislature.

And I still am fighting the cold. The cold may be winning.

However, I have managed a couple of things.

I fully finished a couple of projects in the last couple of days.

I assembled the Elizabethan Rose by Alison Cole. I think I stitched it last year or the year before. At one point, I was thinking about doing an ornament a month in 2026. If I do end up doing that, this could count as my January entry. 

And then, while I was rummaging around in one of the finishing baskets, I found this:

This is Merry Cox's Flower Pin Cushion & Needle Book. I won it in a drawing from a blog awhile back. (Hi, Stasi!) I stitched the design. In 2017. Then last year, the Examplary Sampler Guild offered the chart to the members and had a class with Merry. At the time, I thought that I should pull it out and put it together. Somehow it didn't happen right that minute, but it floated to the top of the basket and I did it today. Why I didn't assemble it after I finished working the design, I'll never know.

I think I should make a rule for myself that will make me assemble smalls as soon as I finish the stitching.

We all know that I don't follow the rules very well, even the ones I set for myself. I could try to change. 

But right now I believe I will take a NyQuil and see if I can get some sleep.