Have you tried turning it off and on again?

The Story of My Day, by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched, has been stitched and waited for some time. My first idea of sewing the blocks together, was to use mini charm packs of different colours. Well, that basically made the stitcheries disappear. So I frogged it and found pieces of grey and blue to give some space between the stiticheries and the surrounding facbric.But.. I still was not happy about it. It felt too busy, distracting, and just wrong.

So the seam ripper resurfaced and the blocks went into the basket again.

I decided to exchange the squares with a calmer yellow fabric, and that really seems to be working. I'm happy again. 

And now to select the fabric to frame the whole thing. I'm thinking something blue would be suitable, and have pulled a selection of candidates from my stash to see which would be most fitting. 

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In other news we've been changing activities at home this fall. P wanted to return to playing football and is currently busy practicing three afternoons per week. And A wanted to try playing handball, with girls from her class. They're both really happy about this change - and so our adventures scouting has been put on hold for a while. With practice and games there's hardly an evening per week that there are no plans made. 

Post-COVID I can say that I'm more or less back to my normal self again. Just a dry cough once in a while (mostly when I'm feeling tired). My urge to craft is back - woohoo! - if only this work thing didn't interfere all the time.. I wonder how many of my projects I'd be able to finish, if I didn't have to go in to the office every day.. I guess I'll have to play the lottery and see if the grand prize comes my way (and try to use the time I have in the best manner possible).