Crafting in the Time of Corona I

When I realized I was going to have lot of time on my hands I thought about whether there was anything I had been wanting to make but hadn’t gotten around to and remembered a pom pom cherry garland I had seen in a store. It became the first thing I crafted in the time of corona.

And then I remembered I had been wanting to try making some yarn dollies for awhile so I made two.

I liked the way they turned out and plan on hanging them on the Christmas tree but I didn’t like them well enough to make multiples (or maybe it was just the wrong time of year) so I had to come up with another idea.

I used to do a lot of cross stitch embroidery so I looked to see if I had any linen (I did!) and then I looked at my saved patterns to see if anything appealed to me and while I found two possibilities they didn’t really seem right (that Christmas thing again). Then I remembered that I had told my Step class teacher Amy that my new favorite saying was what she often said at the end of a number; “Over and back to the finish line!” and that I had thought to myself that it sounded like a embroidery motto. So I decided to make Amy a present for when I get to go back to the gym. I googled some images and designed a silhouette pattern.

It came out so well I decided to make a yoga one too. I didn’t have a phrase in mind but after a few days of thinking about it came up with “Ground Down” the words Ken uses to indicate that he is finished sharing yoga philosophy with us and is ready to begin the practice.

There was a small piece of linen left so I decided to make two Zumba ones. I couldn’t think of phrases that Angel or Alberto use regularly so I decided to use song lyrics. It took a while to find them since I googled what the songs sounded like to me. What I thought was “Puerta Rico” turned out to be “Esta Rico” which means “It’s Good” or “It’s Rich” which worked. And googling the partial lyrics from a song both teachers use “Uno, dos, tres, cuatro yeah yeah yeah” led me to the right song which included the line “Todos se mueven” which means “Everybody moves” which seemed perfect.

After I finished these I decided it was time to switch to something else and I remembered that I had been wanting to try wet felting a playmat for awhile and since I hadn’t done any wet felting in a long time I undertook some research…