How the devil are you?
It's a beautiful day in Cumbria. The sun is shining and the sky is a gorgeous blue. I look out of my window and I can see fog burning off the Eden Valley below me. The birds are singing their hearts out and I feel all is well.
Last week when I wrote to you I had just been signed off work. I felt posistive that some rest would sort it out and all would be well.
How wrong I was.
On Sunday I decided to cheer myself up and dye my hair. I was so careful washing the dye out. Taking extra care with my back. I felt chuffed with the colour and leaned forward to wrap a towel around my hair and BANG!!!! Something went. Big time.
I stood there and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It was so ridiculous.
The consequence of this was that I spent the week trying to recover from the excruciating back pain I caused on Sunday rather than the just plain bad back pain I had on Thursday. This means that when I went back to work on Friday I actually had more pain than when I went off the week before.
"Nuts" thought Ellen.
I've given up on the painkillers as they make me sick before I can take enough to help with the pain.
So essentially I'm no further forward. But the physiotherapist and doctors agree it's not sciatic so I don't qualify for a scan. Basically I'm none the wiser and neither are they.
So I get on with it. There are folk out there worse off than me. Enough about the back then.
But thank you for your well wishes over the past few days, they were greatly appreciated.
Feeling the Love -
You'd think that a week off work would mean I have lots of progress to show you today. Bless your heart 😉
The consequences of taking the painkillers was a very fuzzy brain which was unable to focus on anything for a decent amount of time.
I had it in my head that I wanted to finish Hapa. I'm making the largest size and my erratic counting of garter rows means that my shaw is likely to turn out somewhat larger than Mel planned. I have plenty of yardage so I've no worries about running out of yarn.
I kept slogging away at it and I'm very close to the end. I've got the last couple of stripes to do before the split. I think that I may have gartered myself out. I was struggling with the fact that there were just too many stitches on my cable. I've swapped to a 150cm cable now and it's less crushed and I'm hoping that by next week it should be done. Fingers crossed
Monday was the cast on for my "Knitstostaysane Sock Club". I may be a little obsessed with my new sock! I'm using Opal sock yarn, a yarn with blues and pinks from the Little Prince range. 😍 and I'm knitting my Scalloped Tulip Socks - a free pattern on Ravelry
I'm sorry but I may have spammed Instagram a little with progress pictures!!
What can I say?! It's pretty!!
The only other project to see any action this week is my 'I Dream of the Sea' shawl. What you see here is my second attempt. I started using 3.25mm needles as instructed in the pattern, knit until the beading was supposed to start and pinned it out.
I'm using recycled yarn from a commercial sweater and I'd put it at a cobweb weight. Consequently the sitches looked too wispy, too pulled out of shape when I pinned the work out. I asked the girls in the Evenstar Ravelry group for their opinion and in the end I ripped back and started again with 3mm needles. I'm much happier now.
You probably won't see this project often, only when I reach milestones. I've no plans for finishing it any time soon. I don't want it to become a chore. It's far too much work to get sick of it and let it hibernate.
On the Horizon -
I'm hoping to finish Hapa this week.
I'll definitely finish one sock. It would be great to finish the pair, but honestly it's unlikely
I'll work some rows on the In Dreams shawl
I really need to cast on another sample and re-write my new shawl pattern.
Have a great week guys
Ellen x
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