Spinning Day this week is hot, hot, hot. So hot that we couldn't take advantage of my new sitting place outside and had to go spin inside in the shade! Spinning Cake was oaty-fruity-seedy bars that may have started life as flapjacks but were honey-based instead of syrup-based, and a tray of wonderfully spicy, fruity …
Yes, still AWOL
An absence of fibre today - but lots of activity. I have been cleaning concrete with the pressure washer, cleaning windows and windowsills of 2 years' accretion of algae, muck, and mould - and digging up weeds. I also painted (v roughly) my garden bench. Later on I shall be applying Weedol and drilling and …
Still AWOL
Briefly: still struggling with a sore appendage now also struggling with a lumpy sore throat and temperature but unable to leave the knitting strictly alone though successful at not spinning for a while Sky and Water II on the move again (slowly) (25%) Ultimate Temptation going well (30%) Tumult of Waves stalled while I make …
AWOL
My arm is screaming at me so I am trying to keep computer time to a minimum. This explains the shortness of posting around here of late. Sadly, the arm is becoming so sore that I need to rest it from knitting and spinning also. Somewhat disgruntled by this, I rejected all forms of common …
Going well
The Chantilly Lace roving is almost half done now, and it looks very pretty on the bobbin indeed. I am going for long-and-even (relative term)this time around. Still don't know whether to ply two bobbins together or whether to chain ply it. Still don't know what to knit it into. The Merope second sock has …
Monday is for…
Monday is for: cycling to the shops to post ATCs and buy soap powder making fish crumble spinning more spinning filling in the mortgage application form sock? spin a bit more The car is still only part way to fixing, so we are car-less for at least a week to come. I couldn't do laundry …