It has been a busy two weeks… and last weekend didn’t get me much of a leg up on this past week. That’s because it was spent getting vaccinated, and recovering from getting vaccinated.
My husband and I both had our appointments for our first shots on Saturday. His was at 14:35 and mine at 18:05, so at least we didn’t have to get up early. Which was good, because we’d both had intense work weeks with very little down time. However, the appointment was about 6km from our house, and we decided to walk rather than take public transportation, which would have still taken around 45-60min to go those 6km. So we left the house around 12:45 and headed off.
The appointments themselves were pretty quick and the whole operation was well run. My husband waited perhaps 10min to get his shot, and I waited even less time. The 15min spent sitting around post-shot to make sure we didn’t have an allergic reaction was literally the longest step in the whole process. However, we did have several hours between our appointments, and heading home in between didn’t make any sense. We found a park with a little café to hang out in while enjoying a cappuccino and a waffle, and then picked up some Chinese food to eat on a park bench for dinner before my shot. Then we had the long walk home… Altogether we walked around 13-14km / 10miles.
So when Sunday we were moving at a speed somewhere between a snail and a tortoise, it’s kinda hard to say how much was the vaccination, and how much was the long day and long walk on Saturday following a long week. While we are very happy to be half way to being vaccinated, this does mean that we entered this past week only marginally more rested than we’d ended the previous week.
And then my Monday through Wednesday was super busy, between follow up activities from a major work event the week before, to tackling a technical support crises, and then all the meetings I had on top of that… I literally didn’t do a single stitch of knitting or inch of spinning Monday or Tuesday. As you can imagine, I was thankful to close down my work machine after my final call on Wednesday at 9pm, and shift into a nice long 5day weekend…
This weekend is the Farnham Maltings Unravel Festival, and I’ll definitely have more to tell you about on the classes and talks I’ve been going to, and which I’ll attend throughout the rest of the weekend. But for today… a little on my own projects.
First, I’m well into the 6th of 6 turtles of singles for my rainbow gradient, and have only the brown/peach mix and peach fiber left to go. I can’t wait to line them all up for a little photo shoot before I start chain plying them. 8oz of rainbow awesomeness will be achieved!
It has indeed turned a bit cooler again (I’m wearing my thick wooly green handspun sweater with uh… shorts… today) so it seems less crazy that I’m knitting a sweater. I’ve started the waist decreases. What’s crazy is that the HolstGarn yarn is so thin before washing that I’ve got the entire sweater (front and back) on just one DPN. To let you get a better look at it, I photographed it mid-row when it’s spread out a bit more on two DPNs.
Next up – I’ll tell you a bit about the awesome class I had yesterday with Felicity Ford (aka Knitsonik) called “Sunsets & Sheep: Recolouring a Stranded Colourwork Design.”