Let us start with yesterday morning. Email from Andrew 'Amazon parcel by dustbin'. So I collect it and put it in his work room, then notice the cat has been sick in the room. Clean up. Breakfast and a return to computer, I happily go through my routine. Then notice 9.12. on the clock. I am supposed to have a Covid injection at 9.14 but it is just across the road so no worry.
Efficiency is the name of the game at our medical centre, I join a short queue and within a couple of minutes I am ushered into the room with a nurse. Doctor comes in administers needle - all over. I ask the nurse why is it happening so quickly and she says, it is because they have 14 rooms running at the same time. At last the white elephant of a medical centre is learning to use all its facilities. Not to forget of course that this is facilitated by the computer which holds all our records and is easily accessed for information.
The meeting in the afternoon was good. He was a young lad but with the facts at his fingertips, the only problem I had was he spoke too quickly. Holly, the person who organises the Folklore Centre, had arranged the restaurant bit of the room in chairs and settees round tables to make it more comfortable, a novel experience but the only problem there, with people getting up to get drinks there was hardly any passing space and it became like a maze to thread your way through.
The subject matter was about weaving, the stories and goddesses who whirled around this essential craft that has clothed all of us. He followed the course of making one stitch after another from the early vertical looms of the Bronze Age with their holed weight stones still strung out on the ground in many an archaeological dig. To the nalbinding technique that was used in Europe, a single knitting needle that made the fishing nets.
Knitting, this 'granny' occupation is making a comeback of course with the younger crowd as well. In the eternal search for our own welfare and long lived lives, well knitting brings a calmness to the soul. Maybe! but give me a difficult pattern and I get very frustrated.
A photo of the event. Not mine but I am sure the photographer would not mind.
I remember weaving potholders as a kid but that is all the experience I have with weaving! I've knitted before but just simple things like scarves and dish cloths. I have started doing cross stitch again - just small things but it is nice to do while I am watching TV in the evening. It feels good to accomplish something and I donate the finished products to our local history museum to sell.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you don't watch foreign films Ellen trying to read the captions underneath whilst concentrating on needlework.
DeleteI have tried crochet, but I'm a left hander and reversing this in my head just doesn't work for me. I wonder if it would be different now that I'm older. Oddly enough, I've discovered quite a few things that I have figured out after years of thinking they were impossible.
ReplyDeleteSnap, so am I left-handed Debby, and probably why I get so confused over patterns. As long as you remember to get l/h scissors it halves the pain of the wrong scissors.
DeleteThis is definitely not a talent I have. You have a lovely blog.
ReplyDeleteThank you Linda. Glad to see you are taking up blogging as well. Good luck.
ReplyDeletei've tried to knit, several times, but i am too clumsy..... i always end up splitting the yarn and ending up with more and more stitches on the row.......
ReplyDeleteWell you still have a few years in you yet so persevere! The first male knitter I came across years ago was a Bishop and he wrote a book as well on the subject.
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