So things have been off around here for the past two weeks. The fan on my laptop died on August 3rd, Computer guy said he could have it ready on the following Monday or Tuesday (August 8th or 9th). Go to pick it up and he said oh sorry - hopefully by Friday (August 12th). Got a call on Saturday that it was ready so I ran down quick and rescued it!! I had been using my husband's laptop for the past almost two weeks and I like my laptop better!! I didn't want to mess with all his automatic settings so I didn't log into my blog to update it for last week. I had been making some progress with my projects though!!
My other exciting news - on August 11th (this past Thursday) I had LASIK surgery to correct my bad eyes!!! I am so happy with them now!!! No more glasses (except for cheater glasses for reading, but I am OK with that!! - much better than the trifocals I was wearing all the time before!) I went in for a follow-up appointment Friday morning and their tests find my vision is now 20/20 with no glasses!! I am SO happy!! I was actually able to "almost" read the line one below the 20/20 line! So maybe my vision will continue to improve a bit more as I continue healing.
So my crafting updates:
1) Entanglements (Tour-de-Sock 2016 Stage 6 socks) are all finished now! They were fairly close to completion on my last update and I finished them up on August 2nd. I am happy with these!!
2) Diamondback Socks (Tour-de-Sock 2016 Stage 3 socks) I spent some time these past two weeks working on these and came to the conclusion that I just was not enjoying the knit, There is too much out there to knit to force myself to work on something that is not bringing me joy. I have frogged these and will use the yarn for something else. The pattern is lovely but I just was not feeling the joy working on them.
3) Coffee Cantata (Sock Madness 10 Round 6 socks) - I got a fair bit of work done on these last week and am happy with my progress, They will be on hold for a week or two now while my eyes heal nicely! Thin yarn and lots of cables might not be my best choice for knitting while I heal!
4) Celtic Myths Shawl - this is coming along nicely, I have now completed the body of the shawl and am ready to begin the cable edge. Tough to get a decent picture since it is now all bunched up on the cable of the needles.
5) Bubbles Blanket - I have made some excellent progress on this one. I have increased it from about 13 inches to about 19 inches now. I am hoping that this will be a finish in the next couple weeks. Figures I am working on an afghan during a heat wave...
I suspect I will spend some more time on the Bubbles Blanket over the next several days as my eyes continue to heal. I can do crochet more easily without putting much strain on my eyes since I can mostly do it by feel. The fingering weight projects will likely be put aside for a week or so until my eyes are more healed up. I do not want to strain my new eyeballs!!
Until next week!!
I really like the Entanglements socks, such a lovely colour that shows up the pattern so well.
ReplyDeleteThe Bubbles blanket is cute and looks rather squishy too, nice and soft by the looks of it.
Congrats on getting your eyes that good. I'm jealous (but I'm also a scaredy-cat), it must be a great feeling to have great vision again without the glasses.
Thanks!! The yarn for Entanglements I dyed myself :) Bubbles is VERY squishy!! My only regret about my eyes is not having done it sooner - but I was chicken!
DeleteThat is great you are now only having to wear cheaters to read. Must feel very freeing! Lovely projects.:) It is smart that when not enjoying a knit to stop. No sense in continuing if its not pleasurable. Knitting should always be fun :)
ReplyDeleteIt has been very freeing!! Both the eyes and the frogging of a project! Life is too short to knit something that does not give me joy!
DeleteOh, cool, you got lasik! I want to get that too; I have coke bottles but I need to finish the dental work first. Your FO socks are terrific. They look so good.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the FO and I'm so glad your vision is now better than before and bringing you so much enjoyment, I wish you lots of speedy healing.
ReplyDeleteYour socks are so pretty! And how good to read that you're happy with the results of your Lasik surgery. I look forward to reading more of your experience as your eyes continue to heal.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the eye surgery. I had cararact surgery 5 years ago and they put in corrective lenses and it is so awesome to be able to see without glasses. Sorry about your diamondbacks, but I am sure you will find the perfect pattern for that yarn. Good job on the Entanglements - that was a tricky pattern.
ReplyDeleteThe Entanglements socks are lovely. I love all those cables. They look very cosy :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy about your surgery, bet that feels much better. Love all your socks - lovely.
ReplyDeleteWow, you have a super power now. I am amazed that you can see so well. I used to be near sighted but now I'm just not sighted. My oldest son is thinking about getting the surgery though and I hope he does while he is still young. I just love your socks! Especially the coffee cantata! They are beautiful!
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