I kind of fell off the planet there for a week. (You can read more about the personal/life stuff below.) But I am back with a 2-week update this time.

Supernova Quilt: Still working on the center section. I have all but two of the rainbow stars sewn into place. There is also an exterior ring of rainbow and black/white striped fabrics that needs to be done, but here’s where things are right now. I have a periwinkle and a light sky blue star left to add (plus the one green star arm not done yet).

Lite Bright Sweater: Cruising along on this one, I have completed the first 2 colors and the 2 transition sections for the body, so the remainder of the top will be in the light blue speckle. Still have sleeves (I’m thinking elbow-length and not short/cap sleeves for mine) and the neckline to knit but hopefully will finish this up this month. Yarns are all Hedgehog Fibres 2-ply sock yarn from a club eons ago.

Transfer Point: I needed something super mindless, so I cast on this easy mostly garter-stitch (with a few slipped stitches) 2-color DK-weight shawl. Kacey Knits is a favorite designer for these kinds of projects – they are nicely written with some details but nothing difficult about them at all. I’m using 2 skeins of a small-farm alpaca yarn sent to me by a friend a while ago.

Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Quilt: I received the last shipment of block-of-the-month fabrics so I have started assembling the quilt. It is done from the center out with mostly pieced borders, and some fussy-cut striped fabrics. Here’s the first and second interior borders added to the central block. Next to be added are some appliqué borders, and I need to finish the last 2 of the 4 of those, so I’ll continue working on cutting and sewing the pieced sections as I go.

And that’s it for projects this time around! No progress on Oscar, the kiddo cardigan, or otherwise.

Life Update: The past 2 weeks have been challenging and chaotic here. I am still the sole full-time person in our department other than my boss who has a LOT on her plate right now with a new CEO and President and strategic VPs, so the bulk of the daily items falls to me. New Mexico is a big state, and I have had several in-person events totaling about 800 miles of driving on top of my normal work hours.

That alone would be stressful, but our older dog, my BFF, Lizzie, got sick about 2 weeks ago. We thought it was just a short-term issue, but after a week of not being able to eat much, a trip to the urgent care vet (and finding she had lost just over 15 pounds since her annual check-up 3 week ago), a round of fluids and a lot of medications to try to help with her symptoms, we made the hard decision to put her to sleep. She was 11-1/2 and while I know she had a great life with us – we loved her so very much – it is never EVER an easy decision. She was definitely my heart dog and a constant presence, so I am painfully aware of her loss in everything I do right now. I am glad she isn’t in pain anymore and I hope she found an entire basket of tennis balls across the bridge where she’s running around like crazy, feeling good again.