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My Apple Pick Shawl

20th March 2017

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I’ve spend the last two days editing photos and

Yesterday’s therapy was folding these fabrics. A

Yesterday’s therapy was folding these fabrics. And I fell into the trap of over-doing things within a week after receiving the green light for moving the shoulder again. This pile was too much for the muscles so, today is a quiet day with rest. It’s so easy to overestimate what I can do and so difficult to find the right balance… (add impatience to the mix).

So even when faffing with these fabrics was nice, it was not the best idea. I’ve learned that. 💡

About the fabrics: My head is full of plans and while I can’t put them into practice at the moment I can prepare for when I can sew again. I have this idea for a quilt in my head and, after going through my fabric stash, I decided that I needed more of a few colours. The parcel arrived yesterday. And since I like my fabrics to all be folded in the same way, I had to do that right away.

I also might have developed a big crush for Ruby Star Society fabrics! 🥰

Fabrics are from various @rubystarsociety collections, purchased at @dasmachichnachts and @sewhotuk

Hurray! The harness is off! I had my post surgery

Hurray! The harness is off!

I had my post surgery check-up this week and so far the shoulder is healing well. I don’t have to wear the harness all the time anymore. I’ll be wearing it during the night for the first week or so (I can sleep surprisingly well with it) and I can put it on to give the shoulder a little rest during the day.

That means that I can move on to the next phase of rehabilitation and I’m allowed to actively move my arm, but without adding weight to it.

That sounds simpler than it is, because I basically am starting from scratch again rebuilding muscle strength and increasing my range of motion. To give you an example, I can’t bring a fork to my mouth yet. But it is getting a little better every day, and who would have thought that I would be happy that I can fold laundry? 🤔

Have a lovely weekend ☀️!

What do you think? Pretty yarn and a perfectly mat

What do you think? Pretty yarn and a perfectly matching project bag are the prerequisite for something beautiful, right? I’d love to get started with these (they’ve been living here for a while now). I’ve already caked them and took them with me on holiday! But they do have to wait for a little longer… 🙄

The pretty-yarn-photo is meant to distract me (and you?) from the fact that I have to be patient… hopefully next week the doctor will give me thumbs up for dropping the harness and I can move on to the next stage of shoulder surgery rehab. Frustration and irritation levels are slightly increasing at the moment! 😫 But I’ll get there. Currently catching up on Grey’s Anatomy 😉.

Yarns are @oliviaandoliverfibers in Caramel and Eggnog on Merino Fingering and (discontinued) Mohair bases popping out of my #projekttaschebisi

So, it’s no surprise anymore that I was able to

So, it’s no surprise anymore that I was able to finish the Dingley Dell tee with the (limited) amount of yarn that I had 😉. I did have to make one major adjustment to my initial plans though. See the green stripe in the ribbing around the neckline? I wanted to include that little green stripe in all of the ribbings but that wasn’t going to work. Because that little bit of green yarn is all that is left! Al least I won this game of yarn chicken 😂!

I really wanted this one to be finished before the shoulder surgery, because it’s a summer knit. I can wear it now… so I didn’t want to leave it being a #wip until I would be able to knit again (and summer would be over). The tee went with me to Frankfurt (where I had my surgery) and I literally finished it the night before the surgery (which was actually postponed by one day).

I even managed to weave in all the ends (there weren’t many since I took care of that with every colour change using the @westknits way).

Now it only needs a bit of blocking!

Pattern is #dingleydelltee by @lilalu72 / Yarns are @oliviaandoliverfibers and @camarosedk

Last Cotswolds post… On our last day in the are

Last Cotswolds post…

On our last day in the area we went to see a few more villages: Bourton-on-the-Water and The Slaughters.

Bourbon-on-the-Water (photos 6-10) is very picturesque, but, unfortunately, also very crowded. Yes, I did manage to keep the crowds out of my photos 😉! There’s a lovely little walk quiet walk that starts a bit after the Motoring Museum and takes you along a little stream (photos 9 and 10). To avoid the crowds, come late in the afternoon!

That’s actually what we did when visiting Lower and Upper Slaughter (photos 1-5, also affectionately called The Slaughters... which sounds a bit sinister to me 😂). We liked them a lot though. Starting in Lower Slaughter, you walk along a stream and through the fields towards Upper Slaughter which is even more picturesque and quiet. In a lot of these little villages they didn’t bother building bridges for cars to cross the streams: you just drive through them. Luckily, there are little bridges for those moving by foot 😉!

Visiting here was the perfect ending of our time in the Cotswolds

The green rolling hills of the Cotswolds are perfe

The green rolling hills of the Cotswolds are perfect for walking (I don’t want to call what we do ‘hiking’ 😉). In the UK you’ll find public footpaths everywhere. The paths are usually well maintained and every now and then you cross private land such as meadows and pastures. That’s okay as long as you keep to the path and take your dog on a lead when cattle is in the fields. Really, it’s a concept that I’d love to have here as well!

We went for several (short) walks and we’ve enjoyed each of them. Okay, climbing uphill in damp warm weather maybe not so much… but going down afterwards was nice.

Near Broadway, Bono had a close encounter with a nosy flock of sheep 😂! Swipe to see the noses touching. It was so cute and I’m so proud of our little boy for being so relaxed and just sit there and let the sheep approach. Usually, sheep run away when approached, but this flock followed us all the way to the end of the field!

The last four sunny photos were made during a short walk near Broadway Tower.

Before I show you the finished striped tee (from t

Before I show you the finished striped tee (from the previous post) I’d like to show you a bit more of the area we were visiting while it being knit 😉.

The third base during our UK holiday was Winchcombe in the Cotswolds. I love that area with its rolling green hills and picture perfect small towns…

This was the little village of Snowshill. We were there later in the afternoon and it was lovely and quiet. Perfect to stroll around with a camera!

I couldn’t resist including a bright red mail box and a telephone booth (I’ve seen them somewhere else housing a defibrillator 😂). And a red Mini 🚘…

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