I have a great number of hobbies. Some of them require a great deal of dexterity and concentration and so I can really only work on them in short bursts or suffer from exhaustion. Others require a sewing machine or a large amount of space, or are seasonal.

Once my kitchen gets put back together I will have my sewing room back. I have some sewing projects that I’m looking forward to getting going on. One involves the great stores of cashmere I have amassed. I have some quilts cut out and ready to sew up. I’m thinking I would like to take the quilt frame to a camping event and set up a quilting bee so others, especially those who have never done it before, can have a chance to experience the joy of hand quilting. I expect that it would get done rather quickly if I could set it up in a high traffic area.

The other thing I would like to do is turn some of my very large cashmere sweaters into sweatpants. The sleeves on some of them fit very nicely on my legs and if I turned them into long johns or exercise pants I could get a lot of use out of them. I just have to devise the “underwear” portion of pants to attach the sleeves to and I’ll have pants. And as long as I have to devise the underwear part I might as well make some cashmere underwear. Wouldn’t that be smashing!

I also need to make some garb for my husband. I could use a new cloak and he could use a cloak as well. I think I would like to line the cloaks with cashmere and trim them with fur because I have some fur and a lot of cashmere and both would be warm enough (and I don’t have enough fur to line the whole cloak) and who keep me comfortable long term. I have some beautiful fabrics that would work well for this project.

I think that should be enough to keep me busy for awhile.