Where’s Hrefna?

Oops, sorry, everyone, it’s been a minute since I posted. Life got weird for a while there. 

I bought a new car and it’s been a nonstop barrage of small problems since day one. Everything is all fixed now, though, so it should be smooth sailing, er, driving, from here on out. 

I’ve had some medical issues, too - my asthma, which was almost gone, reared its ugly head again so we’re dealing with that. Had some skin cancer removed. Found out I have some other medical issues I didn’t know about, which I won’t bore you with here. 

It’s been a lot. 

However, I’m still working solidly on my big project. I don’t have any pics for you just yet, but I will in about a week if things continue to go well. 

I decided that the fabric I was working with, a medium-weight felted wool, was just too thick for what I was doing, so I scrapped the whole project and started over with some nice middle weight linen, which is a huge change and required some substantial rewriting of my documentation. The serk I made in April is great, but I’ve redone the smok and am working on a third piece right now. 

I’m also tablet weaving pretty much all my free time that I’m not sewing, although it’s going v e r y  s l o w l y. It’s a skip-hole weave, which I’ve never done before, and between fiddling with the cards to try to keep them aligned, and the fact that my left shoulder is hurting every time I start weaving, I’m only managing to do about 6-8” in a 45-minute session. Yeesh. It’s coming along, though. 

Anyway, I’m still here, still making stuff. I’ll have some progress pics for you here in the next week or so.