Well now.

Well, now, bit of an odd week. I went down with a cold about Wednesday. Which meant that the soya fibre (see pic) whilst no longer looking like this, it is now a bobbin of really groovy single hasn't yet been plied with all the fab Falklands. Which is also sitting patiently on one and a bit bobbins. Hopefully and I do mean hopefully, it will be plied and pixed here by the end of this week In the mean time, I have not been totally idle (although I shall now confess, there are NO pix, as I have been far too wobbly to take any - the camera was too heavy). I have knitted loads more squares in the my Domino shrug from the Domino Knitting book. Having said that, would I CO another project from there? Probably not for a couple of years, my yen for knitting little squares, has pretty much been satisfied for a long time. I have also, finally, reached the edge of the dreaded wedding shawl - once it is finished I probably will never want to see that again either! After a lot of thought, I felt that a mimosa (sensitivity) edging was the wrong flower for edging and settled for Lilly of the Valley (happiness)instead. I then discovered that I couldn't find the edging I wanted so ended up writing my own pattern (if it works, I shall share - promise!). And finally I have knitted the yoke of the Seventeenth Century Undershirt, as published in Piecework Magazine. After knitting the yoke, I suspect if #1Son likes the result and I get to knit it again - v.likely at the mo, I will be amending the pattern and popping a steek in the opening at the neck. I really can't be doing with all this back and forth knitting when it just patently isn't necessary! Also have a shorter opening than in the pattern but that is just personal preference! And finally, I am in heaven! My Anna Zilboorg book Magnificent Mittens & Socks arrived. I am in awe! So beautifully photographed and such fantastically clear instructions that even I can follow - hurrah! My bed time reading for the foreseeable has been sorted. And maybe, once I have wiped all the drool off the book, I might even start knitting one of the patterns!

Memo to me...

Statement of the bleeding obvious # 72 Remember you are pathetically weak. This means that it is really important to GREASE your spindle on a regular basis so that spinning does not become heavy and nigh on impossible... So, you must ALWAYS assume that you have forgotten to do this, rather than you have already done it; so that you will manage to remember AT LEAST once a week/every bobbin change which ever comes first! Otherwise, it will be like trying to peddle a really heavy bicycle uphill. So, ask me how I know this? Having worked out the above, I have managed to spin more over the weekend than I have managed in weeks! And started the soya fibre to be plyed with the finished Falklands singles this morning - finally getting somewhere - hooray!!