Today: I am feeling very strange, after a night of horrible nightmares - the kind where you really do not want to go back to sleep, for fear that they will manifest again. Today: I am rather shaky, and very tired, with a migraine after yesterday's spinning group (nine (!) women in my sitting room …
KAL Shawl(s)
I'm going "Baa!" this Friday, as I signed up to join the UK-RAK Shawl KAL. My chosen pattern is an Evelyn Clark shawl, Icelandic Poppy, and I expect it to be a huge relief (indulgence) after so much garter stitch in recent weeks. I shall be making it in Kelpie, a cashmere laceweight yarn from …
There and (almost) Baktus
Don't ask me where/when/how it went wrong. It shouldn't have. But it did. I weighed it regularly. It became a religion almost. I even built in 2 grams leeway for safety. But I still ran out. I could reknit. Or I could unravel the start until it is the same width as the end. Or …
Frustration
I know, much catching up to do. It shall have to wait - lots of busy going on, much stress. Just stopping by to make a note on current frustration levels. For some time I have been wanting to make the Colors [sic] Squared shawl (Ravelry). I even had the yarn stashed away and the …
Spinning Wednesday
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 …
Like a hole in the head
I think it's an addiction, why else would I acquire more stash? I'm never going to knit my way though what I have already! And then there's all those fleeces to spin... Anyway, I fed my habit: Kelpie, from The Yarn Yard. Laceweight cashmere. Colour: Paprika. This is wound already and poised to make a …