Friday 15 May 2009

New links to my weaving pages

I had an e-mail last week from a weaving friend asking where I had written about lashing-on. I couldn't find it myself straight off, in fact I had to use Google to find an entry in my own blog!

So now, for my own use and for the benefit of anyone else who can't find old entries, I have made a page to index my blogs about loom set up and weaving. See top left.

Yes, I've done a couple of other pages with links as well, UK weaving blogs and the web pages of professional handweavers in the UK.

I've also been writing a few book reviews for Amazon and joined Ravelry (Dot-knits).

But no weaving...

Why? I've got 'flu. Don't tell me swine flu is contained, I don't believe it!!

This one is more persistent than severe, but bad enough to stop me doing much - it's very limiting if you can't get your brain to concentrate on anything for more than 10 mins before needing to rest - but on the other hand it's surprising what you can do with odd ten minutes here and there.

I've found I can do a bit of long draw spinning, a bit of patchwork sewing (a quilt entirely handsewn that I started 8 years ago, maybe I'll finish it this year) a bit of reading, and hunting out and ordering some more books(!). This little stint has tired me out again, excuse me while a shut my eyes a bit.

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12 comments:

  1. Irene Adler15 May 2009 at 23:48

    Thank you for mentioning my blog and
    Get Well Soon.

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  2. Life Looms Large16 May 2009 at 00:24

    Hope you're feeling better soon!

    Great job being so productive in 10 minute bursts!

    Sue

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  3. Trapunto16 May 2009 at 16:40

    Thanks for doing the links. I'll definitely be using them. And thanks for your wise cat comment. I currently have "cat brush" and "squirt gun" and "scratching thing" on my grocery list. Though things are still undecided, we figured we can try out some strategies.

    Ordering books is a two-for-one, because opening packages is also a good thing to do when you're sick! Feel better soon.

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  4. Peg in South Carolina16 May 2009 at 16:41

    You have been working VERY hard! I see what you did was to create new blog posts which contained the links and other info you wanted. But I notice they are dated sometime in 2007. Is there some reason you predated them like this? Not that I'm seriously considering doing something like this, you understand........(grin!)

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  5. Dorothy16 May 2009 at 16:49

    Hello Peg! I'm giggling here - there's a very simple reason for dating the posts back to just before I started my blog, it's a little "work around".

    I can find the pages for editing in my list of posts by clicking on the "oldest" button!

    One day I'll work out how to put index tabs / buttons in at the top of my blog page, but I haven't got my head around that yet, it seems to be easier in Wordpress than Blogger.

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  6. Barbara Blundell16 May 2009 at 16:53

    Hope you are soon feeling better and able to get weaving.

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  7. Peg in South Carolina16 May 2009 at 19:08

    I think what you did works just as well as tabs.

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  8. Dorothy16 May 2009 at 22:39

    Thanks Peg!

    Thanks everyone for all the comments and wishes for my health. I'm a bit better today. I can now concentrate on one thing for half and hour, but then I'm exhausted! This means I can read for a bit then have a snooze.. so, life's not too bad.

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  9. Janet16 May 2009 at 22:44

    Beat that flu into the ground Dot. Hope you're reading something good. I'm reading Victoria Finlay's book on Colour.

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  10. Anonymous21 May 2009 at 00:13

    Thank You for organising your links for all of us to reference; what a wealth of information! Hope you feel better soon (or by now)!

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  11. Barbara Blundell24 May 2009 at 10:06

    Hi Dorothy,
    Hope you are fully recovered by now. Will look out for Dot -knits

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  12. Leigh25 May 2009 at 04:13

    I'm so sorry to hear you've been sick. But I see I'm 9 days after your post, so hopefully you're all well now.

    I had to chuckle about googling your own blog. I've struggled with the same issue for quite some time. The index page is a great idea.

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Thank you!