The title for this week's blog comes from the fact that I have been turning back time by looking through old photograph albums. I found some photos of when I was in Camelot - had such a laugh, I was sooo skinny, and some of the costumes were absolutely hideous!! Think cones on heads with chiffon attached to the back or pointy boots a la Blackadder the First!! Thank goodness they are not digital!!
I have also started to listen to 'Fifty Shades of Grey' - lots of hype about this book and it's foray into the world of S&M. However the first 3 hours were VERY tame and I was fine with audio - until this morning when on the bike at the gym and it started to steam up - JUST could not bear to listen and had to switch off and then download to the Kindle instead to hide my embarrassment! A 49 year old on the bike at the gym is not a pretty sight anyway, let alone a 49 year old on the bike listening to someone narrate kinky sex........hahahahaha!
Well as for the knitting - have been doing ok on that front aside from one mess up which I will reveal later!
Firstly I finished my Tidal which I really enjoyed knitting - although I had to do lots of skein changing to make sure I did not have too much pooling. It seemed like the finishing took just as long as the knitting - but its a lovely pattern.
I must take a photo of me wearing it as the photo does not really do it justice and its much brighter in 'real life'.
The next FO was the Knitted Postcard which I did as part of the UAE Amiras swap. I always knew that I wanted to do something with knitted flowers since I really love the Knitted Flowers book I have and knew I wanted to do something out of that. I was pleased with it, although took a lot longer than I thought it would - there is no getting away with a few flowers.....you have to knits loads!! Anyway I passed over to my swap partner last week and she liked it so hurrah for flowers!
Then the last knitting news is that I have cast on the Cedar Leaf Shawlette and boy oh boy have I made a right royal mess of it! Due to not reading the pattern and just complete knitting incompetence! Frogged twice already and now I realise I have been doing the short row shaping with the wrong number of stitches.......DOH!! but I am half way through now so I think I will just fudge along with the leaves. Its not as if its not clear on the pattern - Alana writes such fab patterns - I just did not concentrate on reading. I blame The Killing which I am addicted to, which requires me to multi-task, ie watch, read and knit!!
Finally a quick update on my health situation - new surgeon wanted a biopsy which has been a bit of a pain since firstly there was some problem with the insurance, and then when I finally went along for the procedure, the Radiologist decided that she cannot get to the right parts so I have to have another more complicated procedure, which apparently sounds as if I have to spend 2 hours in a mammogram machine whilst being skewered with needles - going back to the Camelot/Blackadder theme it sounds like it would fit very well into a Medieval torture chamber (hmm a bit like Fifty Shades of Grey too!!)
I would like to dedicate the song below to my body - who has treated me a bit like a cheating lover over the last few years......
Fighter
Speak soon
xx
