Category: Musings
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Tidy up
Happy New Year. I’m beginning the year with a major focus on tidying up and organising. The blog (although often neglected as usual) is no exception. New theme (Twenty Seventeen), new header. Coming soon: An update on the 2016 reading challenge (done) The state of the stash Completed knitting/crochet projects 2016 (done)
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Cold Turkey
It feels like absolutely AGES since I last picked up the needles. I’ve been very good and tried to minimise any use of my right thumb – no sewing, knitting, spinning or crochet and minimal typing and writing. Every day I can feel that the healing is progressing more. Today I’ve hardly thought about resting…
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Off knitting
Before Christmas, my lovely daughter was dancing with me and swung her full weight on my right thumb. I thought little of it at the time, just carried on with the day. A month or so later I realised that the thumb was still aching on and off. One trip to the doctor later and…
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Sketchy
For Christmas I was given, among other things, a copy of The Sketchnote Handbook by Mike Rohde. I came across sketchnoting a few months ago (via a link from the Bullet Journal site I think) and I’ve been following his website and reading about it. My initial impression was that sketchnoting isn’t really that ground-breaking,…
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A year of writing
Happy New Year. I’ve decided that 2016 will be a year of writing. Quite what that looks like I’m not yet sure but don’t hold your breath that there will suddenly be more frequent posts on the blog. My plan is to write something, somewhere every day. Some days this will be covered by work:…
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September
September the 1st is a fixture in my calendar: Sock Sniper begins. I’ve already written a little, but wasn’t able to disclose much in my last post. My heart sank when I discovered I had a Canadian target. This would be the year I discovered the truth of whether Canada Post lives up to its…
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Spinster
The Jacob Humbug spinning project was finished in April. I’ve got about 125g of a 2ply yarn, of somewhat variable thickness. The singles rested for quite a while before plying, so it was quite tricky to figure out how much to ply. The tricks I learned last year at Wingham Wool work rather rely on…
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That’s a wrap
A wrap? Well, actually, no – not a literal wrap but rather some socks, a strange square item and a blanket. It’s all about finishing projects this year. I’ve been aiming for one a month and I’m up to date. April came in a few days late, but the camouflage lace socks are done and…
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He is risen. I have fallen… asleep
When you are a vicar, Holy Week is a really big deal. This year I’ve upped the number of services slightly, plus we’ve had a big theme of exploring creative prayer during Lent. I’ve loved pretty much every minute of it, but it has been full on. Today, after two services and a home communion,…
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Balanced
[I do get round to talking about knitting and spinning eventually in this post – keep going] I’ve spent a bit of time during this last year or so bemoaning the lack of time I have to devote to knitting and spinning. With a full time job, two little kids, and a husband I really…