Woolgathering :: 2007 :: August

Two Thirds

I woke this morning to find that my headache had returned. Thankfully, not as bad as it was yesterday, but enough to warn me off using my eyes for very much at all today.

Journaling

So, I wandered off to the craft room and added some very small finishing touches to the journal spread that I have been working on, before agreeing with my IC that “enough is enough” - and realising it was only going to get worse, not better. I turned the page, and prepared a new background - which is now drying.

It suddenly occurred to me that I don’t actually have a clue what I am doing - in terms of materials and techniques. I don’t mind - I am learning and exploring but… what if I actually knacker the whole journal by accident? What a scary thought! Anyway - I stuck some pages together, for a bit of body, and I have loaded it with with gesso and acrylics. Here’s hoping! I did put in some guard sheets between pages and I think I could cut out anything too dreadful with scalpel and not do too much damage to any existing pages. I think…

Oh.My.

Since then, I have been spinning.

Spinning

I have now finished two of the three bags of Cheviot tops that I was given. I kind of want to finish the third bag off now, so that I can begin to think about dyeing.

On the other hand - if I keep the third bag for next weekend’s demo, we will have something other than raw fleece to show. So… some pink merino this afternoon? or more Cheviot? Or some of the raw fleece, to keep my hand in? Or Something Else? I am not sure yet. Just staying upright is challenging enough, so I think perhaps the Cheviot. On the other hand, isn’t it great that I now regard spinning as soothing, and sufficiently not in need of either vision or attention that I can do it when I have a migraine?

I am beginning to realise how much work I have backed up and that the demo is only seven days away. Six, really. And I may be out all day next Saturday. I think I’d best get my skates on. Soon!

Cooking

And now, I am going to the kitchen to make Sick Pie. Do you recall Sick Pie? Did you have Sick Pie in your school days? We did. And we always knew when it was Sick Pie for lunch - we would approach the school and smell something very like vomit on the attack. It always smelled foul, but was in fact totally delicious when served up for lunch. I am very fond of a nice cheese pie, but still stick to the childhood habit of calling it Sick Pie. I am not at all sure that Mr L does not find this practice (a) unnerving and/or (b) unappetising

Today’s Sick Pie will be served, not in the favoured manner with new potatoes and a crisp green salad, but with fried leftover potatoes and (urgh) baked beans - by special request. I’ll be passing on the baked beans as I have run out of dried beans and cannot make my own variant - the canned kind are just too disgusting for words. I’ll be ‘avin’ petty pwaaase.

Linkage

There are some interesting and useful spinning tutorials-cum-challenges at Needles on the Move. See the Category link for Sunday Spin-a-Long. The current Spin-a-long is #5L Colour Ways - tips for handling space dyed roving. I have some pencil roving that was gifted to me. I shall be paying close attention.