Next shawl warp
I had originally purchased this yarn – a blend of merino wool, bamboo and silk – to re-sell, but there were some problems with the shipment and I don’t feel comfortable offering it to others. 🙁
So now I have to figure out how to use it up myself. Once again I’m working on stash reduction.
I finished the first shawl warp last night, and even though it hasn’t been wet finished it’s looking good on the beam. Good enough that I decided to go ahead do another shawl warp. Again this will be a fairly simple twill, the weft will likely be either one of the pinks or corals. I may be bold and go with a light purple for one of them, just to see how it looks. 😉
This time I wound the warp a bit shorter (15 yards instead of 20) so that I could have a wider width, this time for squares instead of rectangles. One benefit of this wider warp is that I can use the fly shuttle instead of a hand shuttle. The down side is that the yarn is a bit too thick to use in the industrial shuttles, so I have to use the AVL shuttles instead. But since the warp isn’t the full 60″ width, the lighter weight AVL shuttles should not be too bad.
On a personal level, I convinced my doctor to let me stop taking the diuretics last week, and my bp has responded by leaping upwards. He wants me to start taking them again, but now it’s too close to my departure for Seattle, so I begged off until I get back. (I can’t change any medications for 7 days before leaving the country or my travel medical insurance is voided.)
In my heart, I’m hoping that by the time I get back on the 15th my body will have gotten used to not taking them and that it will settle down again. My bp had actually been excellent – even a bit on the low side – which is why the doctor allowed me to stop taking the diuretic. :}
I’ve just not been feeling great for the last couple of months, and was hoping to reduce the amount of chemical intervention in my system. The good news is that since stopping the diuretic I’ve been able to sleep through the night, which I’m hoping will help alleviate some of the fatigue that’s been plaguing me.
Barbara commented on my reading. Well, I do a whole lot of things rather than clean house. 🙂 Reading is one of them.