Knitting
I did not manage to find time to do any knitting this week.
Spinning
If you missed last week’s post, I had been on a luxury fibre spinning course and last week showed the different silk samples. This week I plied the Angora rabbit top, angora rabbit cutting, alpaca, bleached camel down and dehaired baby camel top.
Out of all the samples I would say I liked spinning the camel, angora rabbit top and silk hankies the most…mohair the least.
I found more of the green and purple fibre that I thought I had finished, so took that to spin group on Tuesday. I won’t share a photo as it looks just like the other half I spun and shared before.
It will soon be July when Tour de Fleece will be on so expect more weeks of spinning ahead.
Other News
My mother in law had another fall and has broken her hip. She had an operation on Tuesday and yesterday wasn’t looking or feeling good. They were giving her a blood transfusion when we were there. We will go back to see her today and hope the extra blood will have perked her up a little.
I will be honest, a huge proportion of my spare time this week has been spent scrolling through videos of the Tartan Army (Scotland football fans) living their best lives in Boston (and beyond). They have brought so much joy to so many people at home, to anyone who has stumbled across them in person or watched their videos.
Having been a juror on a pedophile case last month, I had really lost my faith in men and was finding it hard not to look with suspicion at men. I told my juror counsellor on Thursday that these fans have really hugely helped re-set my mind. Hugely proud of these guys. Just hope their livers and bank balances recover. (If you ever have to serve on a jury for a particularly traumatic case and they offer you counselling, I would definitely recommend you take that up. I literally felt a weight lift off my shoulders.)
I catalogued and boxed up all my photography equipment and dropped it at a camera place to get a quote from them for either buying it from me or what I would expect to get if they sell it on my behalf on a commission basis. I need to be realistic about hobbies that I am no longer going to be doing in future. I do tend to throw myself into a hobby, buy lots of equipment and accessories for it and then move on to the next thing.
Golf, camping, painting, standup paddleboarding, felting…these are all hobbies taking up space in the house and I haven’t done them in a few years. Photography I hadn’t done for maybe 7 years so it was definitely time for the stuff to go. I have a plan to do a painting for my newly painted room though!!
How long does it take you to know you aren’t going to go back to something and say goodbye to its associated ‘stuff’?
Next week is my wrap up post for year 15!
This is a Year of Projects post. Officially the Group is in its 15th year, but this is my 8th year participating. If you would like to find more about the Year of Projects Group on Ravelry, as you’d be very welcome to join us.
HighlandHeffalump 
I’m sorry to hear about your MIL, and the traumatic case for your jury duty.
I understand the urge to go all in on new hobbies. I am getting a little wiser. I’m learning tapestry weaving, and instead of getting an expensive loom, I’m trying it out on an inexpensive beginner loom. That’s not always an option, though.
Seven years seems a reasonable amount of time to let go of a hobby. I’m not sure I have let go of any hobbies. I should get rid of my hula hoop. I could break a hip! 😂
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That’s why Guild’s are so good arent they, you can try before you buy most things at ours. Its really wiped mother in law out this broken hip…you’d think hula hooping would be good to keep flexible and strong core…I would keep that unless you never use it.
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Our guild has equipment for loan, but no tapestry looms. 😐
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The lovely thing about tapestry weaving is you can just do it with a picture frame and some cotton using knots to separate them evenly and change your size up…which once you buy one with fixed separately you are pretty limited on the yarn you use. We had a great lesson a couple of years ago from one of our members and it was just a rectangular frame and some string to warp and some wool to weave with. 🙂
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Best wishes with your MIL. A broken hip is what finally got my father. He broke his hip in November and never regained the ability to walk more than a few steps. Sadly in the US getting hospice, which covered his wheelchair and hospital bed, meant he didn’t get the physical therapy he so needed. Very frustrating. Congrats on decluttering hobbies. It has taken 10 years for me to admit I’ll never play either piano in our home. One is my childhood piano so I hate junking it but no one wants pianos!!!
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She was very confused today, will have to see if she improves. We are blessed having the NHS. Many people here donate pianos to railway stations and bus stations. Then anyone can play them. Not sure they necessary get the required tuning each year lol.
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I hope your MIL is able to heal from her fracture. So scary when you get to be ‘up in years’.
I also go gung-ho when I start a new hobby. It is hard for me to let them go even when I know I will never do them. Yet, I have sold the camera equipment, the engraving equipment and donated my Cricut and all it’s accessories to my daughter!
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That is a tough go of it for you MIL right now. I hope the transfusion helped!
I’ll be looking forward to seeing your TdF spinning. I think I may do a casual (no pressure) Tour this year, just because my spinning has taken a back seat for the last year in the hopes of working down stash.
I haven’t really let go of any hobbies, but OTOH, I am trying to pare down existing supplies (the ongoing struggle) because I know when we do finally downsize it will be painful to try to do it all at once.
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I haven’t used my floor loom in decades! Does that mean I’m ready to let it go? Well, no. Our local yarn shop now has a studio space in back, with warping frames, a couple of looms, a couple of spinning wheels, etc. for members to try/use/borrow. And generally if someone asks at one of the fiber gatherings, things appear in this fiber addicted space. That’s where my table loom has gone for the time being – one of the men at knit night wanted to try it.
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I hope your mother in law is doing better, breaking big bones in older people is not good. Will say a prayer for her.
I hate getting rid of any craft stuff lol. I understand, it’s hard letting go of things. I did manage to get rid of 2 spinning wheels that needed repair to someone who could repair them and take good care of them. It actually felt good to give them a new home and chance to shine again.
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Hopefully your MIL is doing OK – That is a serious situation for an older person. It’s good that she’s in a care home where it could get handled right away! Your spinning is beautiful as always – it’s neat to see all the experiments you do with different types of fiber 🙂 That sounds like such a terrible court case, and I’m so sorry you had to hear that! It’s good there is counseling available, and glad you are taking advantage of it.
It takes me a really long time to get ride of supplies and equipment. I haven’t done leatherworking in quite a while, but I’m sure it will happen one of these days, so it stays 🙂
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