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Let's see, what was the last thing I told you about? Ah yes, alien quilt. Love that thing. Since then, we have wound down mask production - we have had the occasional request, but we've covered pretty much everyone we know at under 300 masks. I'm exhausted and don't want to jump through hoops for hospitals just yet. We have a small stockpile of a couple dozen so we can casually give them away if anyone asks, but man, I did my duty.

Since then, I've been working on personal projects. The hexagons are doing well; I'm up to block 24 out of 70. More than a third of the way done! I also used up a ton of the little red and white triangle offcuts people keep giving me, and made hourglass blocks that I assembled into tiny Ohio stars. I have fifty stars, but they're all palm sized so that doesn't get me much quilt. I've tried to space them out Irish chain style, but I'm just going to tuck them into a drawer until I get more triangles. No point in blowing my entire red stash right now. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_8Kns1DxPx/

I also started a dollhouse. You can see the beginnings of it here - https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-gMBQDrWN/ - as well as the emergence of the "shipwrecked on dinosaur island" theme. I had a whole bunch of twigs left over from the aggressive haircut my mom gave the bushes in an attempt to save Murder Kitten from strangling himself on vines. (That cat is a heart attack on legs. Don't worry, he's fine.) I made a wonky-ass log cabin - front door, two windows, bed sized second storey platform with a ladder. I'm pretty much out of sticks now, so no roof. It's pretty nice in there, despite being dinosaur island: the castaway has some dishes made of air dry clay - a few cups, plates and bowls, some lidded pots, an amphora. Some hand carved tiny spoons made of wood scraps (very proud of those). A shelf made out of twigs and a lot of hot glue - guess the castaway isn't great at furniture making, and also has discovered how to tap the local hot glue tree. There's also a teeny weeny spindle made out of a toothpick and bead, so my castaway has the ability to make cloth! On the platform is a tufted mattress, with a bearskin blanket made out of velour and needle felted wisps of brushed yarn. There's even a roaring fire made of brushed yarn in a ring of pebbles. I'm nearly done, unless anyone has suggestions - I just made a length of rope and hung it up on a peg, and I'm looking up how to weave tiny baskets and make a tiny stool.

I tried to make clay dolls to fit in the house, but I missed - the dollhouse seems to want a four inch tall doll. My first try is probably going to be six inches once I've got the limbs done, and my second try was five inches. I did some really nice wire and pin joints, so I'm going to use those dolls in another set once this is done (I'm thinking Victorian naturalists in their study). I might just make a pipecleaner doll for the cabin, I don't know. I'll link some photos once I have something worth looking at.

And in other news, we have found a stray kitten yelping in our neighbor's tree. It's about five weeks old, I'd guess? Hungry, wet, scared. We fed it and put it in a closed room, despite the dirty looks the cats keep giving us. Tomorrow we will see who can take it.