I'm adapting to the morning call of the doves alerting me to the need to put out some seed, even though there is some activity on the building site next door. This morning it was Myrtle who dropped in once I was back inside. She didn't stay long, but I'm encouraged by her presence and feeding.
Just as well she got in early. As the day progressed work intensified at the Eastern end next door, with a cement mixer filling the holes created by the large drill.
I spent much of the day paying bills, changing passwords, gathering tax documents and answering emails. Late last night I figured out how to use the Icelandic bag.
My current knitting project, the 2ply shawl, fits perfectly. Even the colours work!
Here is the laid and couched work dragon that my friend Christine has been working on in London.
It is the result of an online workshop with Tanya Bentham. Christine bought the kit, which uses wool hand dyed by Tanya. The workshop consisted of a 90 minute video, pdf instructions and a Zoom meeting.
Tanya is a medieval embroidery specialist whose Opus Anglicanum blog I have followed for a while.
Her website has some brilliant kits.
I love Christine's dragon.
Late this afternoon I managed to catch up by phone with a Guild friend. As I brought the washing in the building work had ceased and the Adelaide Rosella was surveying his kingdom before the sun went down.
This evening a friend commented on yesterday's blog post to say that the PhotoScan App by Google works for scanning her photo albums. I gave it a quick try and it seems to work. I tested it on a few photos from the 1980s including this one of our family holiday with friends. It worked a treat. It beats wrestling with the scanner.
Thanks Sue, and a big job coming up!
Progress on the shawl is slow but it's coming along. 2 ply and the rows are increasing, so it's bound to be slow. The ball has barely reduced in size!
Plenty of jobs left for tomorrow.
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