February - keeping the momentum going

 I joined in on Friday night with the girls from Friday Night with Friends hosted by Chez ..... 

I was wanting to keep working on the knitted jacket I'm making as I have a bit of a time line I'm trying to stick to ..... This project is my "Owl" in the Group over on Ravelry that I'm playing along with and so I need to get to the 50% mark by the end of February ...... its proven to take a bit more time than other knitted items I've made for a while and it has a tighter tension, so the fingers get a bit sore ......... so to break it up - I also did a bit of crochet adding more blocks to my window covering

I've been having to take on apprentice work to help Pete with the carport project ...... all was going
rather well  ........ its a little bigger than I'd expected but with the heat we get here this will make a huge difference ....

I've had to help with the measuring and then standing on one of the ladders holding one end of the beams while he gets the other side in and bolted down .......

One more beam to go .... of course it didn't fit like all the others - just needed a tiny bit cut off the end ......

And then before he got to cut it ..... the disk on the grinder broke - thankfully he has only used the

4inch grinder since the big accident with the 9inch one in Queensland ....... still ....... he managed to slice his wrist - the one that has a huge lump from the way a broken bone was set in another life time - we are used to it looking like a massive lump but it sure threw the hospital staff into a frenzy!

We headed to the hospital at 10.30 to just get a couple of stitches ....... they thought he might have chipped the bone so it was then a further wait for the xray person to arrive (after waiting 1.5hrs for the doctor to come!!!) and then photos and calls to the orthopaedic surgeon in case he had to go for a surgical washout (prevention for bone infection if he had chipped the bone - thankfully he didn't) but the ortho suggested a back slab be put on for a week to minimize movement ......

I had dropped Lucy to friends when I thought we might have to head to Wang and be gone for hours on end - so we called back in and had some recovery drinks and debrief lol

The Chookshed Challenge is Number 10 for February and I'm pretty lucky with my list since I've left it open to any project for both knitting and sewing - so I'll be working on Kore - my knitted jacket and the crochet window covering for the yarn work and for the sewing - I'm working on a few things which I'll show you next time.

Until then

Hugs Sharm