creative space -knitting!

I am absolutely loving knitting this pattern by Ysolda Teague in Italian greenish wool. The lace pattern is delightful! It is so very different from the striped cardi I finished last week!

It's a top-down pattern.

Look at my gorgeous busy-lizzies in my lovely pot!

The Star Jasmine is out!

This is my sacred spot! I love my little courtyard where I have many cups of tea, knit, read or meditate! I am about to go out there now and have a chat with the flowers. I am so happy today because my rheumatologist has agreed to let me come off some of the medications I'm on! The side-effects are horrid and the meds have not really made a big enough improvement. It has been about 4 years of trying different meds. I am to stay on a couple, steroids and the injection one (which I hate-I'm such a sook with needles), but I'm feeling very positive about it all. I'm still coming to terms with not being able to do all the things I should be doing and the fatigue is so debilitating. My hands, knees and feet are pretty bad, but I can still knit and drink tea! My girls and hubby help me in so many ways -they are just amazing! Anyway, enough of that! I hope you are having a fabulous week and enjoying being creative! Don't forget to check out Kootoyoo!

Another hat!

yes I know, yet another hat. I experimented with different stitches this time. The green wool is left-over bamboo/angora. Cute, I think.

I'm working on some little crocheted shoes, but they are quite tricky. My wrists have been quite sore, so I'm pacing myself. The arthritis is really quite bad at the moment, especially in my knees -they are very swollen and stiff. My teenaged daughters are back at school today after school holidays, so I can take it a bit easy this week. I tend to over-do it on the holidays!

The garden is looking cold and bare. I'm keeping an eye on the budding jonquils and daffodils though! Hope you have a fabulous week!:-) Keep stitching!

Queen's Birthday Weekend

This is our old dog Scruffy looking gorgeous here. He has sore ears at the moment and walks around with his ears wonky, like one sticking to the side and the other down or up.Here is the progress of my bobbled tam. I love the bobbles and there is lacing in between. I have knitted this before for Lucy in purple. It is from Knit 1 mag. I just love tht patter. Although I'm finding it very hard on my arthritic wrists and fingers. I had to give knitting a break for a whole day yesterday as my hands were too swollen and sore! That makes me sad. I have inflammatory arthritis in almost all the joints in my body. I have tried almost all the rheumatoid drugs, but nothing much works for me. I am very determined though to keep knitting and crocheting! I am finding walking difficult also, with swollen knees and sore hips. However, hubby, girls, Scruff and I went for a lovely walk yesterday -the day was sunny but crisply cold. Lu had her foot strapped as it is still sore after a bad sprain a few weeks ago.

We are recovering from Meggy and Betty's birthday parties. They turned 12 and each had a party at home. OMG. Lots of 12 yrolds screaming and eating too much sugar and red fizzy drink. I burnt both cakes, but they got eaten -loads of icing fixes everything!