Karen's Craft Odyssey

Been especially busy this week — tests to write, extra meetings, all on top of teaching.
I’ve been spinning the soy silk — plied the dyed stuff with plain white soy silk. Pictures to come. I’ve also overlocked and washed the stuff I cut off of my loom way back in January. I [...]

so I’ll just write a few words.
Jenny — thanks for the update. Hope your ribs heal quickly. If you made it to spinners you will have noticed that Betsy and I didn’t make it. Wednesdays are such long days at work. We both arrive at uni by 8am and Betsy’s last [...]

That’s right. Not much is happening, especially on the craft front. This evening I finished spinning the dyed soy silk and started on the white soy silk I plan to ply it with. I have 50g of the dyed and 2oz of the white — close enough. Saturday nite I wound [...]

Now, can I survive the weekend?
I worked at home today. Got lots of little things done, both uni-related and home-related. Took the car in for a service, put chemicals in the pool, started next week’s lecture, etc.
[thumb:230:r:l=p]Didn’t go to Brisbane Social knitting group this evening — thought it would be bit much. [...]

Just one more day of teaching this week — then I can start writing next week’s lecture.
Wednesdays are long this semester. I get to uni at 8am and leave around 6:30pm. Then it’s off to spinners. There was a big crowd tonight. I mostly chatted with Anita. She’s knitting fair isle [...]