Acquisitions/Collection Curation

I bought some 3mm and 4mm beads and some hoops and small wooden rings to make more Dorset buttons.  They are so relaxing to make. 

Knitting

I started a new cowl this week. The pattern is Little Gemstones Cowl.  A separate pattern to the shawl shawl I made, but same principle. 

I think this is my first cowl using 4 ply yarn.  Usually my cowls are way thicker.  This will be more decorative than adding much warmth to my neck. 

The yarns are gorgeous.  The background colour is Cookston Crafts merino, alpaca, nylon in the  colour Crathie.  The Gemstones are a bundle of minis from Iolair Yarn, their Luing base, which is 70% alpaca, 20% silk and 10% cashmere.

I have also brought down some chunky yarn to make a new jumper so hopefully will cast that on next week.

Spinning

I finished plying the Charollais yarn.  My hope is to dye it…just not sure where my dyeing mojo is right now.

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Other News

This week was much more relaxed. 

The downstairs bedroom curtains have driven me crazy for years, the black out lining would detach, the curtains would unhooked from the curtain rings, the draw-in thread had broken, so it had lost its gathering pleats. 

So I bought a load of smaller curtain rings, fixed the threads and finally have curtains that block a good amount of the light and hang neatly.  The hem has come undone in places so I still need to fix that.  These were bought by the previous occupants.  We’ve lived here 18 years so its been a while they have needed fixing! 

Yesterday we were at the first Northern Star Country Music festival in Inverness.  One of my favourite bands, The Wandering Hearts, played a set.  I am not sure a whole day/evening of country music is necessarily something I would do again.  But happy to have seen their 50 min set.

We have some appointments to view nursing homes for my MIL and have a lot of work ahead of us getting her car and home sold to pay for it.  Many of the local ones we would just be adding her name to their waiting list but fingers crossed it won’t take too long.

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