Progress?

Well, after my foray into spinning, I had a little twinge in my elbow. Nothing too horrendous, just a little pins-and-needles sensation for the rest of the weekend. However, after working on the following Monday, my hand decided to join the club and go numb every now and then - not great when you have to drive at least 60 miles a day and use computers. So, feeling like a fraud, I saw the GP and was promptly signed off with tennis elbow. Great. 10 days off work, and I couldn't use my arm. Not the best when your hobbies involve needlecrafts.




I'm now six weeks or so on, and I'm back on track. I decided not to stretch myself and enter for anything in the Ravelympics, but nevertheless have managed to complete both pairs of socks that were WIPs, and have made great inroads into Chris's jumper - which has to be the biggest thing I've ever made. The man's a giant! It is, however, taking all my willpower not to cast on anything new at this point. I just got my copy of the Fall Interweave knits, and am itching to cast on some lovely socks with my Nino sock yarn from the Natural Dye studio, but due to a large tangling issue on Thursday, have managed not to do this (thanks by the way to those who spent forever undoing my mess of a ball last week!) I suppose it was a blessing in disguise, but it certainly didn't feel that way at the time!




I suppose it's only fair that I include gratuitous pics of my achievements to date - the blue toe on the Francie socks (Rebekkah Kerner) is a feature, and a lesson not to use Colinette jitterbug for any socks with a long-ish leg. I think the plan is that my next use of that yarn will be toe-up socks that will be carefully weighed to ensure I have enough to complete sock number 2! The darker pair are the Retro Rib from Interweave favourite socks, and I like them a lot. They're for my Dad for Christmas, so they'll shortly be being buried in a secret place for the next four months. Chances are I'll rediscover them around February.