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Thin scarf in koigu fingering weight
Mauve / purples, garter stitch with rows and part-rows of eyelets scattered in a carefully constructed random way. Fine ribby alpaca/silk top-down raglan In a beautiful blue-with-slubs 4ply. Hypnotic to knit. Beaded top in hemp Hemp yarn from House of Hemp in 'gosh', kingfisher blue / green. Very, very nearly there 
Sleeveless top for Toz in duck-egg blue Rowan DK Soft. Toria started it and has run out of steam. Crochet throw in sueded velour stuff Progressing slowly. Crochet is not comfortable for me. |
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The joys of ftp Got back from Minneapolis this Tuesday, and found my ftp-ing was severely curtailed, i.e. not working at all! Anyway, I'm back - again, having discovered another route to upload my blog! The courses were v. v. good, had lots of fun, and am now back home for the next couple of months to let it all settle down and work its way into my practice. I can't afford any more US trips this year (violins, please), but next year I shall schedule in a couple to Sedona, where the main treatment centre is, for more courses and the 'skills enhancement seminar', a week of shadowing John Barnes in his practice. Deep, dark, rich and mysterious Found The Yarnery on Grand Avenue, St. Paul (no website). Lovely staff, good yarns, mostly Rowan, other natural yarns and a little Koigu. I bought two skeins of aforementioned in sock-weight for a scarf and a couple of balls of lace weight alpaca in the deepest, darkest, richest, most mysterious mauve/purple ever. I need deep, dark, rich and mysterious, preferably in mauve/purple right now, in everything. Could be troublesome :) May 10th Off to Minneapolis and myofascial release training I'm off on my travels again, this time to do some MFR training with the legendary John Barnes. Not the footballer. Same name, worlds apart. Myofascial release is one of the prime treatments for physical stress and bringing wholeness and alignment to the mind-body. It would be good to link it with ATPNI which is concerned with certain aspects of psycho-neurological stress and its effect on wholeness and beingness; obviously they - MFR and ATPNI - could be neatly interlinked, neither providing the whole picture, but together providing a broad perspective on the effects of stress on humans. As with many modalities, trainers can be sadly more into protecting their patch than training up independent practitioners. Particularly with NLP-based PNI training, make sure you ask questions about licensing and trademarking and whether you may use what you have been trained in without being tied into expensive agreements *before* you undertake training - and insist on clear answers and don't let them change the rules once you have been drawn in. My own training syllabus morphed from 2 levels into an 'apprenticeship' and 20 levels (20!!!), once I had already started and invested heavily in the training, these now extra levels to be completed at regular intervals if one wanted to practise at all, each one expensive in terms of training, and, additionally, licensing, and, additionally, membership of this particular trainer's association, whose raison d'etre seemed to be solely to equip her with a continuing source of income. Oh yes, and insist on seeing PhD certification where PhD is claimed. Anyone know any good LYS in Minneapolis, MN? St. Paul's kind of area? You'll have to be quick (please!!!) because I'm going on Thursday. I can't wait, I'm so excited! May 7th Knitting? I do knitting? Well, it appears I do. Knittingness is still looped through the fabric of my being. Here's the proof: Top-down raglan in 4ply silk / alpaca. Lovely to knit, and the colour is sumptuous. 
Swatching Rowan kid-silk, single strand on 3mm addis. Another top-down raglan? I have some quartz-coloured cash-cotton for a jacket to go with it. 
Gratuitous kitpics Jamtart loves young life, and sniffed it, but she didn't eat it; see the teeny weeny snail there, right under her nose? 
See how Phoebe's fur is growing back now after being speyed? 
Sweet Cleo being sweet Cleo.  April 30th I'm back! The ATPNI ® training was mindblowing. I mean, it is mindblowing to think that with ATPNI ® I can just step into my own subjective, unique neurological hardwiring - not entirely painlessly - and be guided to untangle knots and discordances, join up separated areas of 'wiring' and 'plumbing', find the big picture and get it to make sense all the way down. The fact that we can learn how to do that with others is the next mindblowing experience. I love all the clinical stuff, how the way in which we encode experiences neurologically affects our immune system and energy levels, and what can be done to affect that at root, rather than fiddling around with managing symptoms. The implications are staggering! The practice needs to be sorted out. I am not in favour of continuous shouting at clients which seemed to be this trainer's preferred method - and I won't do that. It was so intensive, my prediction that I might be incoherent for a while was not too far off the mark :) This has morphed into an 'apprenticeship' programme, rather than a 'class', and there were only two of us for the first 10 days, joined for the final two days by two other advanced practitioners who were coming in to do their annual assessments alongside us. I couldn't decide whether I was more in awe, or more excited by the enormity of what we are developing. It does mean that studying for the exams and clinical assessments takes on an entirely new sparkly meaning! Did I do any knitting? No. Apologies for the heresy, but with all that going on, knitting faded into comparative insignificance. However, I have fondled and acquired yarn since my return - notably some rather lovely lime green kid-silk by Rowan (3 balls), which I found whilst shopping other stuff for my Secret Pal, some of the same in lilac (8), and some lime cashcotton (11) - and am still enamoured by my alpaca / silk top-down raglan. So knitting is not likely to stop just yet :) Surprises awaiting When I got back, awaiting me was another parcel from my own Secret Pal, with the yummiest Maple Treat Candies, Maple Tea, Stephanie the Yarn Harlot's book, which is fantastic, and four (four!) balls of the softest, silkiest 4ply (yes!!! 4-ply!!!) baby alpaca in the most divine clear kingfisher blue. I'm going to make a ruffle scarf with the yarn, as it will enhance almost all my wearable stuff. And if it didn't, I would have to invest in a wardrobe to set it off. Picis when I can dig out the digicamera. thank you so much, Secret Pal! Try this on Never The Bride |
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