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It's been a while, old friend

Good morning Its a rainy morning.  Most things around town have been canceled.  I know I have to go to work later but right now I just want to think about yarn and knitting and curling up on the sofa on this rainy Saturday where people are stripping the shelves of stores and losing their minds. In January I had hip surgery to repair a torn labrum in my right hip.  The enforced downtime renewed my passion for knitting.  I have always had a need, a drive, to make things with my hands.  It often goes unsatisfied between work and the busyness of kids but its always been there.  But for almost two weeks I had so much time and I started to finish old projects that had been sitting around for years and new projects and test knits and I found new indie yarn dyers and connected with the community of yarnpond and the drive a need to create was fed and grew.  I find myself queueing more patterns than I can possibly finish, purchasing new patterns from independent designers and ordering yarn