Eleven months. Really, kid? Really? Yes, really.

I’ve heard it’s bad blog etiquette (blog-iquette?) to apologize for a long absence, but this time I have a good excuse and don’t mind sharing.

I lost my will to blog in rather dramatic fashion about this time last year when I started to have some rather persistent pain in my right arm, and crafting came to a near screeching halt. No more knitting, no more embroidery, no more felt work. Just sadness and physical therapy. And a lot of crappy movies on Netflix. Hence, I had very little craft to blog about on my craft blog and quite a lot of whining and anxiety I don’t think any reader feels cheated out of missing. Without getting into any sordid details, no, the arm is not better but the issue is being worked through, and I’m taking wee steps back into crafting. I hadn’t realized how much I depended on creating and planning and doing for stress relief and personal fulfillment until I could hardly do anything anymore. Seems rather obvious with the amount of projects I was working on at any given time that taking that away would effect me in a negative way, but — here I am getting into the very same maudlin conversation I attempted to steer away from for the past year. So, you get the idea.

Things that are still the same: still living in the tiniest apartment on Earth, still in the same job, still loving my city, still smug in my handknits during the ridiculously cold winter.

Things that are different: started playing the banjo, baking my own bread, making my own yogurt weekly, my dear Chrissy married and moved far from me, became an internet reverend for said nuptials, sewed some clothes with a fancy pants sewing machine and plan on designing more, and started the process of getting my teaching credential to fulfill my destiny as a civil servant.

I have started knitting again, though admittedly far less than I used to and at a much slower pace. I have to take frequent breaks and watch how long I knit at a time. I did some knitting for Christmas, which I didn’t document with photos and I think I’ll just let float off into the ether at this point. Shall we start fresh? I have two secret projects (shh) awaiting gifting, so I can’t share those quite yet, but I do have one small project just for me in the works. (Imagine a small half-circle shawl on a circular needle in brownish-purple Malabrigo Sock yarn.  My iPhone camera leaves much to be desired, and the photo I took looked fine on the screen, but pretty awful once I uploaded it to Flickr.) It’s a shawlette based off EZ’s Pi Shawl from Knitter’s Almanac. I’m knitting until I run out of yarn and I have no idea how I’m going to finish the edge. Can’t wait to find out.

Anyhoo, it’s good to be back. Enjoy some Bruce.

 

 

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