still knitting

I went back to the doctor’s yesterday, knitting in hand to be prepared for a wait in the waiting room. The nurse walked past and commented on what a good idea it was to bring something with me to do.

Currently I’m working on the knitted dress for Rainbow Girl, and it is progressing well. She’s tried it on, and it fits well, and she loves it. She thought it was a bit itchy, but that’s fine as we always planned that she would wear a t-shirt under it, and tights. I think she’s looking forward to wearing it. (She’d better wear it, after all the effort I’ve put into it!)

The Reader has been very happily wearing her jade shrug at pretty much every opportunity, which is nice.

If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you’ll know that in the past I’ve dabbled a bit with making my own bags – as in travel luggage type bags. Because this is an interest for me, I have been inspired by Tom Bihn‘s amazing bags for quite some years now. I even won a Tom Bihn bag on some guy’s blog (not affiliated with Tom Bihn) a few years back, and while he said he sent it to me, it never arrived. Personally, I don’t think he ever sent it. I think he baulked when he realised that he would have to send it ALL THE WAY to Australia. It was rather disappointing.

Anyway, that aside, yesterday during my lunch break – sometimes I stop work while eating lunch; it seems quite decadent! – I was reading the Tom Bihn blog, and saw that someone had knitted some excellent slippers from cast off selvedges from Tom Bihn’s factory. I thought they were great – such wonderful colours!

Actually in writing this post, I’ve just made a really interesting discovery. The US spelling of selvedge is different to the Australian/UK spelling! Americans spell it selvage! I did not previously know this. Great to always be learning new things. 🙂

After tantalising you with the comment that I went to the doctor’s, I neglected to actually mention the progress of the healing of my burnt finger. The doctor said one more light dressing which can stay on for a day or two (or however long it lasts) and then I don’t have to come back any more. Very happy. Obviously it still doesn’t look normal, but it is well into the healing process, and will soon be right to meet the big wide world again. I’m happy to keep some sort of dressing on it for a bit longer, because knitting wool can be a little rough on sensitive skin, and for embroidering its much less likely to hurt if it gets knocked.