WOYWW #591 Patterns and woods

So here we are again doing our weekly peek into What’s on Your Workspace on Wednesday  kindly hosted by Julia at The Stamping Ground. Have a look, join in, the more the merrier!

My main workspace this week is the blocking of the diamonds for my Persian Tiles blanket project.

I’ve also started the Gloria crochet- along I mentioned last week, but so far, it’s a bit of a challenge  the yarn is very fine, it tangles easily, and the pattern needs a lot of concentration right now  

Here’s how I spent the first 2 days after the yarn arrived:

And this brings me to my:

Mystery object!

Last week’s mystery was a Nostepinne, a traditional tool for winding yarn into centre-pull balls, originally from Norway. It seems that it used to be an engagement gift which showed the fiancé was a competent woodworker. I hadn’t heard of them till recently but they definitely improve my yarn winding  

I’m a sucker for a nice piece of wood, and now I have a yew version as well, which has a deep groove to anchor the yarn. 

Here’s a link to show how to use a nostepinne. 

This week's mystery object:

No-one guessed the last one, so here’s another one for you. If last week’s was vegetal, this one is definitely animal 😏 I'm hoping it's an easier challenge!

Family

No news for my better half from the eye clinic yet. I was inspired by Shoshi's post last week to mention how we met, 42 years ago this month. I wrote a poem about it a while ago:

How we met. He was running a 1 day a week vegetarian restaurant in an art centre, in Stoke-on-Trent. Id returned to Stoke after a few years away. It was well ahead of its time: He used to have to take pictures of things like aubergines to help the greengrocer identify what he wanted from the wholesale market. I'm not vegetarian now, and he never was, but he still likes to do all the cooking.

Dino continues to improve slowly. 

Dino and Thea are now practicing hibernation for the winter

Dino came back in wet from the garden so, after drying him, I covered him with the blanket we usually use to protect our legs from his claws. He insists on patrolling his garden, leaving p-mails for any marauders. 

Walk

Our reaction to the end of the warm weather was, quick, let’s go out before it rains!

This week we went to Walmer Castle gardens. The castle is still closed but there’s a good wood walk, where they’re quite creative in using trees they’ve had to take down. 

This was a little tricky to get  up into. Getting out was rather ungainly so I’m glad there’s no photo of that!

When the Queen mother became Warder of the Cinque ports, they built a new garden for her. My Mum would have liked a garden like that. 

You could see a bust of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, keeping an eye on the place. He died there, so I guess he can.

Their kitchen garden was doing very well.

I don’t know what these are!

I love the way they shaped these hedges into clouds. 

After, we went to St Margaret’s at Cliffe to blow away the cobwebs. This is the beach Cross-Channel swimmers use. You can tell how close France is as our phones welcomed us to France! I wish....

Anyway, have a good week, all, and stay safe. Thanks for visiting; a comment would be most appreciated!

Hugs

Lynne xxx