Forever Bath Mat

I've been trying to work on this bath mat... I've been wanting to make a bath mat for quite awhile now, but my original pattern stitch just wasn't working. I never had the time to focus on making it work & would get pulled away mid-row, mid-stitch.. so by the time I came back I'd be lost. I gave up on that & now trying a new method. Which, I really like how it's going to turn out... but I'm making my own pattern as I go (which I've never done), on a project I have never done anything like before... so yeah, I'm ripping it out for the second time. It's really not too bad each time, but I'm being picky & making it more somewhat more difficult than it has to be.. I WILL GET A BATH MAT!!! *sigh* As long as I don't get bored with it & fall head first into a new project in the meantime!! Hahaha.

WIP

Been going through all the random bags & boxes.... I remember some of my wips, but others I had forgotten about. This was just a sampling of what was readily at hand. Yikes. And I have so many mental notes of new projects & saved patterns that I want to work on. Just wish I could work faster & have a day or two with no interruptions & then tie up all these loose ends. Who am I kidding... if no one interrupts me, I will find my own interruptions!! LOL

Harry Chapin quote

My grandfather was a painter. He died at age 88. He illustrated Robert Frost's first two books of poetry.

He was looking at me one day and he said, `Harry, there's two kinds of tired. There's good tired and there's bad tired. Ironically enough, bad tired can be a day in which you won, but you won other people's battles, you lived other people's days, other people's agendas and dreams, and when it's all over, there's very litte you in there, and when you hit the hay at night, you toss and turn, you don't settle easy....

Good tired can be a day in which you lost, but you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, "Take me away."

Harry, all my life I wanted to be a painter. So I painted. God, I would have loved to have been more successful. But I painted and painted. And I am good tired, and they can take me away.

-Harry Chapin