Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Week 5: Knitted bunny

This week I'd planned on completing a leatherwork project. I have the pieces cut out, I just need to punch some holes, do some basic stamping, and lace them up. Seems simple.

Except I have mild inflammatory arthritis, and I'd forgotten that my hands hate the leather punch with the fire of a thousand suns. REALLY hate it. I need to put it down after 2-3 holes to let the swelling go down and the pain ease. I don't even usually get much swelling.

So, I whipped up a little bunny from handspun alpaca to put aside for Easter. I used this pattern  and failed to do it justice.


Wednesday, March 11, 2009

March 2008

Well, it's been forever since I've blogged. Unfortunately as disappointed as I am in myself, I'm not terribly surprised.

Things that have happened in my life since November: Started back working in my region, with the program area and manager of my choice. I had been looking at job ads elsewhere, but it's really hard to be miffed when you are given exactly what you want. The upside of that is that I'm loving work. Fortunately, my manager and I work well together. We'd worked on the same project before, but never really together. Whereas I've never worked as closely with a manager as I do my current one. Fortunately it appears our strengths compliment each other, and I feel we're doing really good work. As the stress increases as we get closer to the end of the financial year, we'll see how optomistic I remain!

On the knitting front, I got the shawl I wanted for the air conditioned office knitted, and I love it. It's soft and purple - sock yarn purchased from Moseley Park Store. Maybe in a later update I'll share a photo, but for now I am lazy!

Also, I've gotten back in touch with my eldest sister. We had been out of touch for years. This means I instantly have another big sister, another brother-in-law, and their 18 and 16 year old children back in my life. Given the children are essentially all grown up now, and each was still a child when I last seen them, I'm feeling very neglectful! The eldest has even left home already!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

It starts...

I've joined up to Raverlry so I figured I should have a blog to compliment my account.

I'm hoping that Ravelry will help me keep my crafts under control, or else at least let me track how things spiralled out of control.

There's a strong chance that TimCat will be a strong feature in both blog and photos, he's just helpful like that. I'm also hoping documenting evidence about how 'helpful' he is will help explain why projects are always behind schedule. That and I randomly get distracted by something else...

At the moment I have 3 projects on the go, and about half a dozen in the 'to do' pile (not counting spinning projects, somehow they seem like a different category altoghether). I'll work at steadily adding the other ones as days go by.