sewing on the shortest day

Well, it's the shortest day today and I would like to let out a huge cheer for the fact that the days will now start getting longer again. I do miss the long, long hours of daylight that we get in the summertime. Here's the graphic for today:

And the figures for the shortest day:

dawn to dusk = 8 hours and 31 minutes (no change since Monday)

sunrise to sunset = 6 hours and 57 minutes (5 minutes less than Monday)

And here's what the sunlit earth widget looks like on the winter solstice.

As for the sewing that I did today. Well, I was meant to be making those 3 pairs of double oven gloves which, theoretically should have been finished this morning. But they weren't. Why? Because I decided that, rather than doing them the easy/fast way, I'd make my own bias binding ... (this is really a Christmas red colour)

... and do them the long way using that bias binding. So, instead of 3 pairs of oven gloves, I only got one pair made.

I might just get the other 2 pairs made over the weekend but it really doesn't matter as they're all for me. Yep, nobody but me! Yay!! :o)