Who would have thought…….

……. that I have pneumonia!  I have been feeling ill on and off for a long time now and recently it just got so bad that something had to be done. Its now just over a week since I was admitted to hospital for a couple of days with, as it turns out, pneumonia. I am now back home with a big bag of medicines. Yesterday I went back for a review and it seems all is going in the right direction and I am beginning to feel just a little improvement each day.

I sat in the garden for a while this lunch time - it was so nice to feel the sun on my face - it really is warm today for the middle of October! I think it will take me a while to fully recover, but I'll take each day as it comes. I'm hoping that this pneumonia is the answer the Drs have been looking for, but am still having a range of other tests and scans done as well.
I'm also hoping I will soon have the energy to knit and sew again - it will come as I slowly slowly recover.

Things that made me smile last month…..

Just a few things that I didn't get around to blogging about.

…… a lovely parcel of fabric arrived from Eternal Maker…. I must get making - what will it be??

…… my jumper that I had to pull back is growing again!!

…… my birthday, celebrated with carrot cake. 

 

….. birthday lunch out with friends, and on the way we called in at Brougham Hall near Penrith to have a look around the arts and crafts workshops. Just love this huge door knocker!

….birthday walk in the Lake District on Loughrigg Fell, above photo with Beanie looking back to Grasmere

 and here looking over towards Lake Windermere from the summit

and Molly taking the stepping stones into the cave/quarry, hard to resist stepping stones and water!

….. a green and black moth, sitting on a stone I had felted

….. and building work has now started on our house renovation project!!!!. 

I was so looking forward to going to Yarndale last weekend, but illness prevented me from going in the end. Such a disappointment - but I have been looking at some of the photos that are about on blogs and Facebook and have actually seen the Mandala that I made which was part of the huge display 

I am hoping to get to the bottom of what is causing me to keep feeling ill all the time, and have been back and forth to our local hospital for tests, so hopefully will soon get some sort of an answer.

Have a good weekend.

'SheepFest' weekend

SheepFest weekend came and went (Sept 14/15), but unfortunately in the end I was unable to go along. So I missed out on all the excitement of the weekend, which I understand was really good. Lots of craft workshops, and artisan and craft stalls, and of course the sheep trail with well over 100 sheep. However, there are still sheep about in Sedbergh, and now quite a few have been taken back to Farfield Mill and will be on display there until after the October school half term - so I have been able to have a good look at quite a few. Below are the three winning sheep…..

How cool is this one outside the Vets - you could actually have a go at lambing!!

……. and the rest are sheep that took my eye as I walked around the Town and the Mill.

Our very own Baaa Baaara - the Knit and Natter sheep, sitting in the corner of the Cafe at the Mill, where we meet each week.

Outside the Bull Hotel in town…..

and I love this one that the Post Office contributed….

and this one in the Church, where the 'wool' was made of curled music scores…...

and the Art shop.

The Mill also has on display the 'Technicolour Dreamcoat' that was made by local school children. Each child wove a square and into it poured their hopes and dreams. A great achievement.

I was really looking forward to seeing the felt work of Andrea Hunter, and was hoping to go to a talk she was giving over the SheepFest weekend - may be another time. Her work was on display for such a short time and now the exhibition has finished, but I did manage to call in and see it. It was difficult to photograph as there was a lot of reflection.

All in all a fantastic community event, with a great deal of hardwork in planning the event by Farfield Mill, and hopefully will be repeated!

Kaffe 2014 : The colourful world of Kaffe Fassett at the American Museum in Bath

I had a few days away visiting daughter Molly -  a couple of weeks ago now. She lives in Bristol at the moment, and I haven't really spent a lot of time in that area, so before I went I was looking for things we could do and remembered reading on Amy's blog Love made my home about the Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the American Museum in Bath. If you pop along to Amy's blog you will see so many other photographs - well worth a look! We decided to go and visit, and daughter Clara came over from Oxford to come with us - so a little family outing - and it was truly amazing.
I love Kaffes work and have been to a couple of his exhibitions now see here and here, and although I had seen many of the pieces before it is always a thrill to see them again. The excitement began (well my excitement - not sure the girls were quite as excited as me, although they did enjoy the day) walking from the car park passing yarn bombing on the lamp posts and the huge tree outside the exhibition space. Then inside and through the wobbly tunnel into a little area based on Kaffes studio with all the fabrics on shelves, yarn in baskets, etc then turning left we went into the main exhibition area which is divided into colour zones, we went into the yellow zone, then green, red and blue - such a colourful explosion. I loved the detail, with the chairs in each zone matching the colour for instance. Anyway a visual feast, so below are just a few of my photos from the day…...

We also had time to visit the House and the gardens. It was a lovely sunny day, so we strolled around and then had a cup of tea and a cake on the terrace.

Then we went inside the house to look at the exhibitions, and the fantastic American Quilts (difficult to capture as they are behind glass), but I loved these of Kaffes hanging in the stairwell.

The exhibition is on until 2nd November, so if you have a chance to go along I'm sure you will really enjoy it!