Summer projects

Why is it that we feel like there's more time to do things in the summer? Is it the additional daylight? Or a holdover feeling from those long months of summer vacation as a kid (even though I now work a year-round full-time job)? Whatever the reason, summer feels full of possibility, and after five months of, I admit it, being a little afraid of the vintage Singer I got for Christmas, I finally took it out last weekend and figured out how to thread it, how to wind the bobbin, and even sewed my first successful line (on a piece of scrap paper). That's one of my summer projects—learning to sew, and tackling a few simple things, like pillowcase grocery totes and some summer skirts.



Other projects slated for the warm months include the Aestlight shawl I'm knitting, the roof deck garden of herbs and veggies I'm growing, and the very large pile of books (and the virtual pile of audiobooks on my iPod) I'm reading. Not to mention the ongoing goal of cleaning out my old things stored in the basement. Here's hoping summer really is as long as it feels like it is.