Perfect weather for ducks, or knitting

I have come back up to Port Macquarie this week to take care of my hubby, just a little bit anyway in the form of just being here for him and doing some cooking and general pottering around the unit so that when he gets home from work the place is warm, cooking is on, meals are served up, washing is done, bourbon, coke and ice waiting him and a movie in the player ready to go.

Why do all this, he is not very well at all poor dear, he has a nasty absess that is driving him insane with pain and discomfort - it needs to be operated on soon but as we are under public health system we have to wait. As he is living mostly up here in Port we have registered him for the operation up here with the hope that it may be sooner than Sydney's waiting list but this is a long shot.

My duty is just to be here for him as he is still working and taking on a lot of stress via his job and driving back and forth from Sydney on the weekends, the driving alone agrevates the absess.
On a happier note, I am knitting and spinning away the hours between looking after Tony. Today was the perfect weather for it, wet, cold and windy. Such a total contrast to Monday which was a real stunner. Seems you just can not pick the weather up here.

I am spinning some random fibres, some that I have stashed for a while, some I did a trial dye lot of and some purchased already dyed. The fibres range from a small amount of glitzy Angelina fibre, some silk noil, dyed by me. Angora bunny fibre, white silk, and dyed silk, and merino hand dyed in blue's and greeny yellows.

This is such a mixed bag of fibres that the resulting yarn is very interesting, thick to thin and very blended with areas of contrast that should be stunning once knitted up.

I am still using the manual wheel as I have the electric wheel still on layby, paying this off a little at a time. It will be great for my knee when I finally pay it off. I will get a nice large spindle and some big bobbins for chunky spinning as I really love doing this arty fibres.

I am thinking of popping the results of this current spinning on Etsy so keep an eye out I will post a link to this when it happens.

I have brought with me my quilt Le Lapin, that I have been working on and would like to begin teaching soon, it is a quilt using linnen and stitchery for the main design and supporting pieced and appliqued pieces as well, it is in the lovely French General fabric and I am thrilled with how it is developing. Keep any eye out as I will begin posting photo's for you to view.