Category: lymphoma
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Sunny Sunday
Silk scarves after pressing Managed to get the pressing done today – 8 silk scarves (whoops, really lost count!), 7 silk gimp shawls, 2 larger shawls and a small rectangle that may become a baby ‘blankie’. This afternoon I met with a lace making friend and we both talked lots and made (a very little)…
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One Step At A Time
100% cotton baby wrap with 2/20 merc. cotton and 2/16 natural white weft Pale green Fox Fibre ‘colorganic’ weft Pale brown ‘colorganic’ organic cotton weft I finally got the first 3 baby wraps completely finished. All that’s left is to add my hang tag with care instructions. But they are now listed on my Art…
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Sneak Preview
Although the photo looks blurry, this is pretty much how the cloth looks. The white weft makes the cloth look very soft. This is another variation on Wall of Troy. Since I’m still debugging the cloth I’ve used plain old ordinary 2/16 cotton rather than the Fox Fibre yarn. And while I can’t really tell if…
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Round 3 and Finding Emilie
Round 3 has knocked the stuffing out of me, probably due to the good – and bad – stress of the trip – the infection, anti-biotics etc. – on top of all the rest of the stuff that goes with chemo. Although I started to feel a bit better yesterday morning, by night I was punky…
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A Quiet Day
Spent a very quiet day yesterday, mostly in bed. Today I’m feeling much improved, well enough to weave a bit, so I got this blue shawl woven. The fell line looks a bit wierd because the knots are just about exactly lined up with the fell line – something I didn’t notice until I went…
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The Emperor
of All Maladies A friend recommended this book to me and I found it at the local library. As I’ve probably mentioned before, I like ‘weird’ science. I’m finding it quite fascinating. Cancer has for many years been shrouded in secrecy. There were no effective treatments until mid-20th century. This book looks at the historical…
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Plans Change
I’m home early because life happened and plans had to change. First of all, I had an absolutely great time in Quebec. It was wonderful to meet the Quebec weavers. They were warm and sympathetic – not to mention I saw some great textiles. 🙂 But it appears that the healing after my ankle surgery was…
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Something to Look Forward To….
By the time you read this (I’ve scheduled it to be posted Friday evening) I ought to have arrived in Montreal – barring travel challenges. This is, however, an ‘easy’ trip – from here to Vancouver (at 6 am – there otta be a law!) and then from Vancouver to Montreal, arriving there around 5 pm…
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Count Down
cover bathrobe project Linen placemat/table runner project There are now officially just 17 full sized copies of Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens left at the time of this writing (June 1, 2011). I usually sell a couple of copies when I travel to teach so by the time I get home on June 12…
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A Simple Life
threading the last shawl warp in this series – the end is in sight! Generally we live our lives as though we will live forever. Intellectually we know that no one gets out of here alive, but emotionally we think that our time is for much longer than we have any right to expect. We also think…