Today was my fourth chemo of eight… I’m half way through! I’m almost dreading the next four as they are a new drug Paclitaxel (for me) that can cause numbness in fingers and toes….. and I MUST knit, it’s my drug of choice!! Apparently Melissa Etheridge stopped hers as she was scared (justly so) it…
Woman: ‘Doctor I’m constipated’Doctor: ‘What are you taking for it?’Woman: ‘I take my knitting…’
Just a quickie with no photos but after a trip to visit a plastic surgeon yesterday I feel so much better about any pending mastectomy! Left thinking ‘Hey! the upside of all this (besides some weight loss) is new hair and maybe even new boobs!” Now for pics and some hair and boobs but in…
Whew! Just back from Cleveland, Ohio, where the first Inspiration machine knitting seminar happened this weekend. Fabulous!I guess I’m saying Whew because I taught two days worth off classes one week after my third chemo treatment and was so energized I flew through until I ran out of fumes somewhere during the last class. However…
A set of my hand made buttons. Recently a friend steered me to ‘Stumble Upon’ as a great time waster or a resource…. I’m in love! I put in knitting, fashion, web design, graphics and some others as my key interests so that when I surf only sites I’m remotely interested in come up and…
Sheep – yes, but dogs you say? Yes, this was my third or fourth year at the Sheep Dog Trials at Grass Creek Park just east of Kingston Ontario. My Mum used to spin and weave so was invlolved in the Sheep to Shawl event there and elsewhere and kept saying I should take a…
No photo for this, though I should get one of my other hat… if anyone had any doubts or wondered about Ads by Google, I found ‘Headcovers.com‘ on mine this morning but already knew about it throught my friend Gwendolyne’s blog. I got two great hats (one of which I’m wearing for chemo in my…
Well, most of my friends and colleagues know by now that I have breast cancer. Now I’m incorporating it into my blog as my colleagues, fellow knitters and artisans have been incredibly supportive through my journey. This photo was taken on our vacation in the Outer Banks NC where I am taking in truckloads of…
My dear friend Georgia had a challenge recently for various artisans in different media to make a toilet roll cover! What a great idea!! Can you just see it …. glass, polymer clay, weaving, ceramics and so on. Apparently it went really well…. well, except Georgia’s who’s polymer clay crocheted effort did rather badly in…
I just remembered I shared a booth with my friend Georgia at the recent Dragon Boat races here in K’town and it made me focus on knitting a dragon on a pink jacket as we were there to in support of Breast Cancer Action Kingston. Their boat was powered by a great team of survivors….