For me personally, things have worked out well this year, with healthy friends and family and my long distance relationship turning into a in-the-same-place relationship (in a climate where I get to wear wool more!). I know there are many who have not been as fortunate.
My posts stopped when I really got into mask making, and was devoting all my spare time to that. I ended up making over 1500 masks, which I gave out primarily to my neighbors, the county health office, and a nursing home. People were really kind to me, and through unsolicited donations I didn’t end up too much out of pocket from purchasing needed supplies (mostly elastic, but also wire, fabric and sewing needles, since most of the fabric was given to me by friends and my mum). By the end I’d gotten very efficient, and each mask took me under 10 minutes to make (so probably >250 hrs to make all the masks).
Mask making more or less ended when I moved, since by that time there were enough other suppliers of masks, and I didn’t have a great sewing setup in the one bedroom apartment we were staying in (and both working from home in…). Home hunting and moving in a pandemic was interesting, with much worrying about the safest way to get everyone and their stuff in the appropriate places. My mum is calling it ‘the great shuffle’, since my sister moved at the same time. We’re all very happy with our new living quarters. I think all of the boxes have been unpacked, though we’re still using some of the cardboard boxes for storage…
Since then I’ve been busy getting my new fiber studio/home office set up, plus knitting of course. And some spinning-with the new home came more space, and thus another wheel. More about the fiber projects to come shortly!