I've just discovered Tunisian Crochet and love it. I have been designing things, even though I'm still learning the skills. I tried to make small piece with a local landmark but it hasn't quite turned out how I want it to. I will just have to try again!
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I have touched on my illness in the March Meet the Maker 2018 but I wanted to say how it affects me on a daily basis.
I struggle to get out of bed some days. Walking down the stairs can be very painful in my ankles and knees. Walking to work leaves me exhausted before I start and I have to rest for about 10-20 minutes before I can open the stalls. I'm then on my feet all day, serving customers and stocking the shops or doing my orders. I'm often up the step ladders getting more yarn out to stock the shelves. I then have to walk home and make tea and tidy up, put a load of washing in the machine. My son has to carry the basket of clothes for me as it's just too heavy for me to do it. Bending and straightening to hang it up causes me pain too so my son has to do it. He also does the washing up for me as leaning over the sink hurts my back. I often have nerve pain in my legs and feet. My feet and legs have been going numb as I walk to work and boy, does it hurt when it stops. I have cubital tunnel syndrome which causes nerve damage in my hands, affecting the top of my hands and little and ring fingers. This sometimes makes it hard for me to design and write things. I can't hold a normal book open anymore, which to a reader like me, is bad. I can read a book a week, sometimes more depending on the book. I get brain fog, when I forget my words halfway through sentences and just say what I think is right. I told someone to put a toaster on their sewing to iron on top of it. I was trying to say, either a tea towel or duster but my brain just combined them and came up with a toaster. I got a few funny looks that day! What really gets me upset, is that I can't help it being in pain every day. It never goes away but every day is not the same as the previous day. I can have pain in my hips on Tuesday but the pain will be somewhere else on Wednesday. I can't predict what will be painful either, depending on my behaviours. Some days, I need a walking stick to get to work or home and other days I don't. I have tried changing my diet, increasing vitamin d and have regular b12 shots. I've seen adverts for tumeric and raspberry ketones and every kind of supplement you can think of. Unfortunately, they don't work because they don't regenerate the myelin sheath surrounding my nerves. Fibromyalgia is classed as a form of arthritis but I consider it to be more like Multiple Sclerosis but sufferers don't have brain lesions. It's an auto-immune disease so doctors are still unsure what causes it and it's different in every body who has it. I have been researching lately, what it would cost and what I would need to do to find a room to set a up a dedicated sewing room so I can teach a range of courses in and hold a sewing bee social as well as a crochet club and knit and natter group. I've been busily researching and writing a business plan and desperately hoping I'll win the lotto to do this. Seeing as It's unlikely I'll win the lotto, I've also been looking into a setting up a crowdfunding campaign to help me get this master plan off the pages of a business plan and into a reality. Please let me know if this would something you're interested in going to
I popped into town today and went to a couple of shops. I found two book in The Works, the crochet amigurumi book and the knitting scarves book. I've had a look on the website and they aren't on there but they are available to buy in store. Cutest Crochet Creations by Alison North has 16 cute animals to crochet. The cat looks cute and I want to make a couple of them. The book was only £4 in The Works Knitted Scarves, 13 Stylish Projects to Make has several lovely scarves in it and I bought it because it has cabled projects. I have been learning to do cabling with some simple cables and these are a little more complex. They are also written patterns, rather than charts, as I cant figure out the charts for knitting. This one was only £1 and clearly a bargain! I also popped into a charity shop that was open and found two books. The Harmony Guide to Knitting Stitches Volume 1 and Good and Easy Sewing Book by Betty Crocker Home Library. They cost just 99p for both although the sewing book is pretty simple and I probably have most of the information in other books. The Harmony Guide to Knitting Stitches was a fab find and I think it's awesome. I have a couple of books with lots of different knitting stitches in but they didn't have one stitch I wanted in them and this book does! I'll be making a baby blanket in a soft lemon chunky yarn in the lattice stitch. |
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