Yesterday I started a new medication. I am still exhausted. I spent a good part of the day sleeping. I am, however in less pain. Which is wonderful.
Just in case you are wondering about today’s race, the snail won by several yards. Autoimmune diseases really are awful.
I am starting to feel better after my bout with food poisoning. I have got my creative energy back. Now I just need my body to catch up with my creativity. I am on day two of winding yarn for various projects. I also managed to find room in some bins for yarn. That might have something to do with pulling out yarn for projects from the bins.
I have also found that if I sit to the left side of my espinner it has some definite advantages. The first being no sun in my eyes during afternoon spinning sessions. The second being that I get a smoother thinner yarn. I can also see the yarn at a better angle. Did I mention that is also easier to spin that way? If it is written in stone that you must sit facing the orifice of the spinning wheel or espinner, I have just broken that silly stone. However if you must really have it written in stone the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show is going on until February 14th.
With one hand out of commission due to tendinitis I spent the day reading. I almost finished a book that I started in December 2008. We will file this under no book should be finished before it’s time. It’s a really good book. Let’s just say I had a lot of distractions at the time, I am not mentioning any names, but that is a period in my life where sleep became a luxury. If sleep was a luxury reading fell further down the list.
The book is called Deep Blue by Meir Uri Gottesman. A little warning there are a lot of Yiddish phrases and transliterated Hebrew phrases. So either keep a Yiddish to English dictionary on hand and use google translate.
So far I have completed 2 projects this week. I will show you my spinning. It’s a huge skein. It came out perfectly balanced too. It is a wool for the first spin, plyed with a darker silk yarn. This is a one of a kind spin, so I will not spin more of this. I will show you the picture. It is already in the box to mail out. Just one more skein to spin and ply before I mail it.
The next one I will not show you because it is a new pattern. I have two more to knit. Pictures to take and a pattern to type up before I send it to my test knitters. Whew, it sounds like a lot of work. Since I am using larger knitting needles it goes fast.
I have also made the decision that I will no longer knit with a double strand of worsted weight cotton it is just to hard on my hands.
Let’s face it. I am a book dragon. I tend to collect books faster than I can read them. Once read I hate to let them go. This is the pile I have on my nightstand waiting to be read. I find it a bit overwhelming and daunting at the same time.
So with some clever organizing I was able to clear one bookshelf off by rehousing everything on the shelf. John then graciously dusted the shelf and moved a shelf of books for me to the higher shelf. He then dusted the lower shelf too.
Then it was my turn to prioritize which books to leave on the nightstand and which books to move to the shelf. Then I went and gathered books off my dresser and some from the knitting room. The empty shelf is now almost full with knitting books on the left and smaller fiction and nonfiction books on the right. With the taller knitting books on a different shelf. It feels good to get more organized.
One of the books that was waiting to be read got started tonight. I really love the ease of reading in short bursts. The book is very spot on about our hectic lives. I would highly recommend reading this book. “ I’m not too busy “ by Jodi Hills. No, this book will not be leaving the house when I am finished because I managed to snag an autographed copy. This book you will have to find on your own.
TTFN
I am having trouble adjusting to a slower pace. I am having trouble just sitting still and resting. In this endeavor practice does not make perfect.
Oopise. The pattern that went wrong in so many ways will be going to a kids clothing bank. This goes under waste not want not. A child will have a one of a kind winter beanie for next Christmas.
Repeat after me.
Never ever try to write a pattern during brain fog.
Never ever try to knit a sample during a really good television show.
It never turns out well.
I started rewriting the pattern and making the new sample tonight. I foresee many, many changes along the way.
I am still counting this a a completed UFO.
