Acquisitions/Stash Enhancement

I went to Hobbycraft on Tuesday after my hospital appointment and bought some lovely fabric…fat quarters in green tones, floral prints and patterns and some beige bias tape. My plan is to use my super simple way of making bunting to make some for our sunroom. It doesn’t have any curtains in there so I think some bunting around the top of the windows will make it look cheerier. I’ll put it up once the Christmas lights come down so there’s no rush to get started on making it yet. (BTW my Christmas lights aren’t up yet.)

Knitting

Jumpers/cardigans

Having finished the body of my jumper last week, this week I’ve been working on the sleeves. On Thursday I was almost at the cuffs before bed. On Friday morning I was in Ravelry and saw my notes…I was supposed to have knitted the body after the colourwork with 3.75mm needles!! I used 4mm! I’ve used the 4mm on my sleeve, but my tension is always tighter on sleeves, so usually they match if I knit them with different needles. Anyhoo, my patience has been tested enough with this jumper 😂 so I continued the sleeves and it is what it is.  It needs binding off and blocking.  I need to buy some more colour catcher sheets first because I don’t want the white to end up pink too!  I’ll do an FO post eventually.

Next up I’ll be making a 2nd feather and fan jumper using the raspberry and natural colours and I can just follow my notes from my 1st and not have to think! After that I’ll make my 3rd version of Such a Winter’s Day jumper in dark blue. I think I’m done with trying new jumper patterns out for the foreseeable 😂

Weaving

Inkle loom

I’ve not started my new project yet. I have definitely had less shoulder pain as the week has gone on so I do think the band weaving had made it worse unfortunately.

I cut about 9” off the band from last week and it didn’t start unravelling, I’ve used some polyester thread to put tiny stiches through some of the weft threads and now using it as a book mark. I will try some other hemming methods out with the rest of it.

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Other News

My sourdough journey continues! My first loaf I baked last Sunday was a success. Only a few “too big” holes, so I was really pleased. I over boiled our eggs we had with it which was unfortunate.

Because it took a while for my sourdough to get going I had quite a lot of discard to use, so I found some recipes on the Clever Carrot website.  The layout isn’t great and there’s annoying pop up videos but the food is tasty.

With some of the discard I made an overnight sourdough apple cake (delicious) and later in the week I made a sourdough granola! It made nice bigger clusters so if my husband likes it I’ll do that regularly for him. (I used different fruits, nuts and seeds to the recipe).

On Thursday I started a new loaf with sundried tomatoes and rosemary (and smoked paprika), put it in the banneton basket on Friday morning and then kept in the fridge for ~20 hours and baked Saturday morning!  For dinner we ate it with tomato soup and cheese.

On Friday I made some sourdough chocolate chip cookies.  The recipe is ridiculous it makes soooooo many.  I baked 24 I think and froze some of the dough.  Mine don’t look like the website version.  Next time I’d do a third as much.  We didn’t find them chewy which is what it said they were.

Baking seems to be something that does not agitate my shoulder so it’s filling my time well. I’ve started watching all the Hallmark autumn movies available on Amazon Prime. They usually have baking in so it’s perfect background noise.

The mammogram was very painful on my right as expected, on my left side where I have a lot of scar tissue from an operation when I was 11 it was absolutely excruciatingly painful. I was glad she had me holding on to the machine. She did warn me it would be a lot more painful and given that’s also the side with my frozen shoulder too ouch!!  The next day I woke up with a lump under the scar tissue but trusty Google said it was normal (and cited some reasons scars may swell after a mammogram) and it should go down, by bedtime it had gone.

I’m very fortunate to not carry the BRCA gene but know there are other breast cancers so it’s still worth doing but I’m pretty confident when they scan for testicular cancer they aren’t putting those body parts in a vice to scan them! Anyway they are every 3 years here, hopefully I won’t get called back or need it sooner. 🤞🏻

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