3 posts tagged “halloween”
It has been a hectic past week. On Tuesday I found I will be headed to Spokane to see a new doctor. A neuroENT. Maybe HE can figure out what the heck is going on. Tuesday night I met up with DH in the ER. Chest pains again. Didn't get home until 2am while he staid in the hospital gorked out of his brain on dilaudid. We went to see his cardiologist this morning and he scheduled another stress test for next week. We are running out of systems to check.
I did however manage to finish my silk weaving. A small 10" x 10" piece. I did it on my Erica loom. Something that took me days to do before only took me about 4 hours even with stopping to spin and dye a bit more silk. The right tools for the job as they say. Now I am on to finishing up my sample skeins and swatches to finish off my workbook. While in Ca I actually knitted a pair of socks! Both of them! Nothing fancy, just toe up with a 2 x 2 ribbing, but I hardly ever make 2 socks. I feel a little like Dobby with my mismatched socks. I also finished my triangular modular scarf made from the noro. I used 2 balls of the "silk garden lite". I love how the colors merge into each other. I took it and the pattern I wrote for it over to my lys and it will be on display there for a couple of weeks. I told the owner she could distribute the pattern for free. Got to give away at first to create a market for pricier things later! Anyway, it's nothing special, I'm sure other people are doing something similar already.
On another nice note, I got a message from a former voxer in the mail today. She lives in Finland and she sent me a picture of a hedgehog she made from a pattern I had sent to her. It is the hedgehog from Fibertrends. She sent me some of her buttons. So a 'shout out' to KaSil from me.
Now, I must go finish spinning. I have made a blend of merino, polworth and pima cotton roving. This will be for my 'indoor' wear skein. It is lovely stuff once it's all blended. I quite like it. Here's hoping you all have a smooth week ahead. PS congrats to Allison for her Value Village Skull. It won national best theme "Romantic", even though it is a Dia del los Muertos skull. Good job.
Or is that an oxymoron? Getting ready to head back "home". Even though I have lived most of my life here, in WA, and lived more than half my life as a married someone, home in this case means the house, neighborhood, state where I grew up. Up until I married, I had lived in this one house my entire life. You know how it starts out seeming big and shrinks as you get older? It seems weird to go back there. I was there this summer, and the whole character of the neighborhood has changed. I know that happens almost everywhere, and I guess that's a good thing, change I mean. But the beautiful canopy of trees that once lined the street are gone. Removed because of age and disease and the damage they created in sidewalks, street and sewer. Beautiful ash trees that turned golden in the fall. It's what distinguished our neighborhood. They're what let you know that it had been there awhile, the old trees. Now, it looks like a new development, no trees, old houses razed in favor of houses that take up the whole lot, leaving little or no yard for growing kids to mess around in. We used to have kickball games, hide and seek in the summer. Go on picnics to the elementary school where there was a grove of huge eucalyptus trees and blackberries. I don't think kids do that kind of thing on my street anymore. Sad.
Anyway, pix of the wig (ugh)
If you are in the B'ham, Wa area, please check out the skulls at Value Village. They are being auctioned for charity. This is one that my daughter did. I think it's great.
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