Lazy Days

It looks like I'm in the lazy days syndrome.  My wrist isn't getting any better, actually worse.  I can't knit more than 1,000 stitches a day without it becoming painful.  I need to get back up the the hand specialist for a talk.  I don't want surgery because I worry it could make it worse.  It looks like I'll be doing very little hand knitting in my future.  I have some socks on needles and occasionally work a few rounds on them. I'll be hand knitting some lace and some worsted weight, to use up my stash.  I know I'm  going to miss the comfort I get from hand knitting but at least I will be knitting.  I think my spinning wheel might help with the rhythm of hand knitting that I will miss.  But of course my right foot always wants to continue the rhythm after I go to bed!

I was on Ravelry today and discovered the Hansen Crafts mini spinner!  It also comes with the WooLeeWinder level-wind flyer.  I'm familiar with the flyer, but had never heard of the mini spinner!  I don't have a problem with my Ashford Traditional wheel, but I sure would like the flyer attachment for my Ashford. 

It seems like every time I turn around, lately, there is some new "knitting want" I encounter.  They are always expensive items!

I really need to make the long swatch for my cardigans, on the knitting machine.  One swatch, various settings.  Since the cardigans will be straight knit I took the ribber off of the knitting machine Wednesday.  That thing is heavy!  Now all I have to do is get the yarn ready to swatch.  It will require dividing the hank in half, making one ball.  Then using my scale, to make 2 balls from the one ball so I can run the two strands through the machine at the same time.  Once I get the tension I want I will have to re-calculate the sweater pattern, as a flat pattern, not in the round.  That isn't a problem, the problem is me!  I just don't have the incentive to do much of anything lately.

I did make a loaf of bread Wednesday, using my new bread machine.  I should never try to talk on the phone, or even answer it, when I'm in the middle of something!  I had to throw the first batch out because I didn't put in the right amount of liquid!  Once I started over I realized my error!  Another thing I learned was don't believe everything the book says!  It said that you could use butter straight from the fridge.  Wrong!  I even softened it with the first try, but all I got were flour covered lumps of butter!  I knew better!  With the second batch I melted the butter!  That works!  Then there was the salt - I knew they wanted more than I like, but I followed the instructions.  Next time I'll decrease the amount of salt a bit.  Trial and error.  At least I got a nice loaf of bread.  Oh yes, then there was the clean up of the pan.  Well, I did that right, thank heavens, but when I went to wash the beaters I could only find one, and there are two!  I hunted and hunted and couldn't find that darned missing beater.  About 1/2 hour later I was looking at the bottom of the loaf and it dawned on me - it was still in the bottom of the loaf!  I'm learning!  Just wait until I try to make Puff Dough!  That should be real interesting!  That is all by hand, no machine with that.  It is very time consuming.

Now I'm hungry!