12 Days of Chrristmas Patterns are Complete

I just finished uploading Day 12 of The 12 Days of Christmas patterns to my web site:
http://www.sundropdesigns.com/projects.html

If you're still looking for the other days, check out the Blog Archives on the right sidebar. Links to the earliest days were posted in January.

The patterns will be availble for free for two more weeks. On March 8, I will begin removing them as I update the pages on my web site. The complete set will be available for purchase at that time. I can now cross this off my List of Things to Catch Up On and start on something else! Does everything on this list ever get crossed off?

Day 10 of 12 Days of Christmas

I just finished uploading Day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas patterns! This one had me stumped for the longest time as to what the lord might be leaping over. After weeks of deliberation, I'd decided on frogs (as in leap frog) over candlesticks (as in Jack Be Nimble). But then on Friday, I heard some senator say that he thought no one (as in no senator nor representative) had actually read the economic stimulus proposal before voting yes or no on it. That got me to thinking about the behaviors of politicians in general. As a result, yesterday I changed the ten frogs to a stack of ten books. My only political comment here is that I suspect a lot of politicians simply leap over things they're supposed to dig into. But since some say this verse symbolizes the Ten Commandments, the books are appropo for that, too.

Have fun with the pattern!
http://www.sundropdesigns.com/projects.html

More 12 Days of Christmas

Just in case anyone missed it, there's a link on my home page to a pdf that has the words to The 12 Days of Christmas. These are the American lyrics. I know the British version is slightly different, but I haven't taken the time to research the lyrics and add them to the pdf. Here's the link:
http://www.sundropdesigns.com/

I'm still trying to work with only one contact lens, so things are going slowly. Oddly, computer work seems to be the most difficult. My guess is that the monitor is is just far enough away that reading glasses don't really help. Closing my eye without the contact lens helps a little, but I've never been that good at winking. Oh well, I'll keep plugging along at my snail's pace and at least I'll get a little bit done.

12 Days of Christmas: Update #2

We had a mixed bag of weather last week: half icy winter wonderland and half the usual winter temps in the mid-40's. I divided my "warm day" time between sewing in my shed and doing computer work in my trailer, so I only have two new blocks up for you.

Day 6: http://www.sundropdesigns.com/bom/bom09.html
Day 7: http://www.sundropdesigns.com/projects.html

Since the coming week's weather forecast is for another mixed bag of winter goodies, and I have other deadlines to meet, I decided to make things a little easier on myself and set things up to add days 8-12 on the same page as day 7.

In addition to last week's icy weather, the electricity went off, Sunny fell into something yucky and had to be bathed, and two days I had to clean my keyboard because someone left hairballs on it. I suppose it's my fault for forgetting to cover my keyboard when I turn off my computer, but I've not had a problem with this until lately. So why have my cats suddenly decided that the keyboard is a good place for coughing up hairballs? In all my years of living with cats, this is the first year that my keyboard has been a target for hairballs. They started doing this after I bought a "spill-proof" keyboard. Do you think they actually know that it's supposed to be spill-proof?