I need to give my hands a break today. When I finally put down the yarn last night, I was getting a twinge of pain in the left wrist. Manual labor requiring high dexterity on a small scale is not the sort of activity where it is wise to “work through the pain.”

So I’m using today to organize. I’ve written down what I’m doing on my works in progress so I could make them again without re-calculating everything. They’re not so much patterns as notes so I’ll understand what I did, though they might become patterns in the future. I just finished a custom order of a pair of elbow length fingerless gloves with a braided cable pattern on the backs of the hands.

I’m working on a lace motif wrap for a client who’s very excited about taking it on her cruise at the end of the month. But I’m ashamed to show it publicly until it’s been blocked. Yes, one day soon I should discuss the importance of blocking with before and after pictures.

I’ve also been getting interested recently in knitting and crochet as a visual art. I have one project going, lots of ideas – we’ll see where it goes.

And, I need to go through my yarn and see what I have to start making Spring things. Well, not specifically Spring things so much as not-Winter things. Right now my inventory consists of mostly hats. Wool hats. Gotta get on that.

Ack! And it’s my last chance to work on the painting I told my teacher I would bring back to class this week.

That’s a lot of work for a day where I can’t get any crocheting done.

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