Category: blood pressure
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Know When to Fold ’em
Making bobbin lace is my hobby. I like it because the tools are minimal and the bobbins are pretty. 🙂 Making lace is about as slow as slow cloth can be – barring perhaps tapestry. I do it as a passtime and for relaxation. Before I take my blood pressure I’m supposed to sit quietly…
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Fringe Binge
Three buckets full of fringe twisting to be doneThis is a view of my pile of fringe twisting that needs to be done. Yes, that’s more on the table in the background. As you can see, my living and dining room are not really living and dining rooms, but more work space. 🙁 The only…
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Get Up and Go
Leclerc skein winder for winding yarn for quills – and a couple of proto placemat warps in amongst the rubble For the past few months I have been ‘suffering’ from a serious lack of get up and go. I’ve been blaming this lack of energy on a whole list of things – the unremitting stress…
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On Re-Discovering Plain Weave
….or the joy of being able to weave without thinking…. A few weeks ago a friend asked if I had any of my painted warp scarves woven in plain weave that she could use to illustrate an article she was writing. (Hi Tien!) I didn’t, but assured her that I could and set about dressing…
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Best Foot Forward
My battered feet in my battered ballet slippers… In my 59+ years I have been very cruel to my feet. Starting with ballet and doing point work at age 14 (and then again at age 30 something) then track and field (discus, shot put and hurdles), various and sundry other physical activities such as aeorbic…
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Thrumming Along
Bucket of thrums (weighing 15 pounds) On Wednesday I’ll be meeting the surface design artist to whom I give my thrums, so I dragged the bucket out from under the table where it lives tonight so I don’t forget to bring the bag with me. I haven’t weighed it, but the bag holds the last…
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First Gamp Woven
Plain weave gampToday’s progress has once again been slow. 🙁 Wound three pastel warps and got one of them onto the Fanny and finally managed to get the plain weave gamp woven. I expect to weave the twill tonight while Doug is out visiting his buddy. While I’ve done nothing about the two Mountains on…
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Stash Reduction, Daily Exercise
2/8 cotton warp with cotton/linen slub for towel body, 2/16 cotton for hem weft – note cutting line – two picks of twill Got home from doin’ the Puyallup about 9 pm last night. Today I tried to get organized – banking and such – and in between wove on Fanny working on the tea…
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Sensational Sixties
more camo cloth When I turned 49, I told friends and family that I was poised to enter my Golden Years. Little did I know. Now I’m 59. A year and a bit after my angiogram, a month and a bit after changing my cholesterol medication to the Niacin, I am not only feeling better…
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Encouraging a Healthy Heart
Given that my heart has not had an ‘attack’ in spite of a rather large 70-90% blockage in a major artery, I can only assume that it’s a good sturdy muscle. And given that I have further blockages, one of which – at 60% – is not treatable via angio-plasty due to it’s position, let’s…