You know, I like you very much

Three months later and I’m still cruising in my electric red ranger. I hate getting around by wheel chair, I hate it as much as I hated it way back when I was first learning to walk on a prosthetic leg.
I had hoped I’d feel differently about this situation with Dan in a chair and all but I was fooling myself. Being forced to sit down and zip from place to place has been a serious restriction. I have spent the summer in pain and feeling trapped and un inspired. All summer long I’ve mostly sat and made hats and other knit wear for the fall. This past Friday my awesome assistant Rachael bought me a couple of lbs of soft while merino sliver from the local wool shop and I’m getting back into dyeing and spinning.
Sitting at my wheel for the first time in moths hurt. I couldn’t treadle long enough to get my bobbin half way full before getting a pain in my hip and having to stop. I tried again the next day and finished the bobbin full of yarn and that yarn is completing the last of my waiting room toques.
Yesterday I was properly casted for a new leg socket which will eventually become a new leg to stand on, hopefully I’ll be walking around in a few more weeks.
I won’t have anything to sell for a while but I am entertaining trades. I have a few good trades in the works, 1 with Kim who is an amazing visual artist and book maker. And another with an artist who goes by jenny bird.: http://www.jennybirdart.com/
Take at look at her dolls!!!! I’m currently going through my best bits and ends gathering up a big bunch of strands to send her way to be used as hair on her amazing dolls:)
I will be back with posts of the hats I have finished and all the other good stuff that kept me seated and occupied during my seemingly long recovery. I need a new card reader so in the meantime I’m counting on my sweet little laptop with it’s built in camera , the pictures are not the best but better than no pictures at all.
Take care everyone, I’ll be back to posting my regularly. I’m trying.
Kathyxxoxo.

this is the blue wool i dyed for kim. my webcamera picture isn't picking up on the dark blues but i think it's what you're loking for?
this is going to be a 1920's style hat i'm making as a trade for some of kim's artwork. kim, if you are reading this.. before i start carding what do you want me to add? sparkle? other bits of colour?
i already have the inspiration/the idea of what the hat will look like inspired by your head and sence of style. let me know when you see this so i can get working on it.
:)

i'm still recovering from surgery. it's going to be a long sumer in an electric wheelchair that keeps breaking down.
i have been maing a lot of hats. stacks of hats. i'd take pictures to show you but i seem to have lost my head.



lambskin


i've been trying to be a sharp shooter. see.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

it's been like this ever since.