Hello! I wish I could be more cheery on this last day of the year, but waking up to the news of the fires in Colorado plus the test result I got this morning was all a bit disappointing. This could have all been avoided if I’d just said no to end-of-year gatherings. As an introvert, I would have been delighted to stay home. So, I am now stuck in my room for the next week, hoping to keep the rest of our household virus-free.  On the positive side of things, I am pretty good at finding ways to keep busy when I am by myself. I can blog, work on knitting projects, learn something on SkillShare, do some sudoku, try to draw or sew something, do some needlepoint, watch a movie, or read. Maybe this won’t be so terrible. At least, so far, I am not feeling too bad. Before realizing I had been blessed with this stupid virus, I started working on the Bedford Sweater, a pattern I found on the Brooklyn Tweed …