Doctors and Goblin Kings

Despite, or perhaps partially because of, the extreme craziness of my life right now, I’ve actually been a bit productive on the handwork front this last week! Having a weekend off helped I must admit, but I’m finding it more important than ever to steal a few wooly moments in the evenings. So, what have I accomplished? Firstly, I finished the second chard on my Names of the Doctor scarf. Only eight more to go!

I finished the first of my Into the Labyrinth David Bowie tribute mitts! I still HATE stranded knitting and have used a lot of brain power lately trying to find a way to have these in double knitting, but I think I’ll just pony up and do the second one as written and pursue that bunny trail at a later time. I love the chicken on the thumb!

I also made some bracelet this weekend. Nothing special, but they made me smile and broadened my jewelry repertoire. Some days, that is very important!

And, I played around with paper making since I’m doing it among other things with the senior girls for Rally. I managed some pretty pleasing results, and learned that a pour mould is much easier to control than a dip mould. Here is some paper fresh out of the water before I dried it,

And some sheets drying on my highly professional drying rack. *right*

Parting shot: I’ve finally figured it out—it explains so much! Now I know who to blame for the way things are run!