J invited us to spin at her cottage hideaway yesterday, in special honour of F’s birthday. I hadn’t seen the cottage before, and didn’t even know where to find it. I wasn’t even at all sure that I was going to go. Tuesday was a very bad day for me, with a lot of pain …
Category archives: Living
Oh, woe
Things are not as good as they might be on this Windswept Acre, so please forgive if blog coverage is patchy for a while. My back continues to trouble me but that is not what keeps me awake at night. The last couple of weeks of feeling generally “off it” and full of nothing but …
Grumpy.
I hurt my back on Thursday morning. It hurts when I sit down. It hurts when I stand up. It hurts when l lie on my back. It is now Sunday and I am losing all sense of proportion with this pain that has been going on forever. I’m trying to do without painkillers today …
Surprises, knitting ones and otherwise
The Red Emperor scarf seems to be on hiatus. I was surprised by the way in which the Aestlight Shawl grabbed my attention. I completed Light and Crusty in 3 days. It is currently blocking and an FO post follows soon. Brace yourselves, though – there are now two more Aestlights on the needles!
Read on for more surprises.
Just Imagine
A tale of woe, but a short one.
A few strings attached
SpinningGill very generously gave up the bulk of her Sunday and came round to show me the ropes vis. warping the loom. Hilariously, I had thought she might get as far as starting me off weaving… Obviously I had no real conception of how involved the process is ((for involved read fiddly and/or time-consuming)). I …