I thought Trigger was a horse . . .

Well . . . (Deep subject for such a shallow mind.)

My finger ailment has a name. Actually, it has two of them. There's the sort of generic medical term - tenosynovitis - and then there's the catchy name everybody uses - trigger finger. And the lovely hand surgeon has put me on a third anti-inflammatory to see if this one will help. The catch is that I have to take it for two weeks before we'll know. And if this one doesn't work, there's a few dozen others we can try. And if none of them work, then there's a steroid injection into the tendon. And if that doesn't work, then there is a minor surgical procedure that can be done that will leave my hand unusable for at least two weeks. (The minor part is that it can be done under local anesthetic and takes about 20 minutes.)

~ sigh ~

It looks like I have to live with my finger problem for a bunch more weeks.

~ sigh ~

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Wonderful feel good tear jerker chick lit.

(I do have a quibble about the tear jerker part. I thought it was forced and unnecessary and it spoiled what was otherwise an enjoyable quick read.)

Bummer

I've been in the mood to knit, but the gimpy finger has prevented me from picking up needles. For my style of knitting, the left index finger is integral.

Bummer!

I broke myself

Just got home from the doctor. He thinks I have a very bad and extremely painful case of tendinitis in the index finger of my left hand. I have no idea what I did. I went to bed feeling fine and woke up unable to flex - or otherwise move - my left index finger. I have a prescription for something. I dropped it off at the pharmacy and I haven't gone back to pick it up yet. Needless to say, everything - including typing - is uncomfortable and often painful. It looks like this is my year to have things go wrong.

Oh, well.

Happy Easter

Sure and begorra, 'tis a fine day!

The History of St. Patrick's Day


Not your standard shamrock . . .

I'm still alive

Really, I am. Things have been very, very busy at work and I've gotten in a reading mood so there hasn't been any crafting to speak off since I finished the last pair of socks.

I haven't taken any new pictures of the kittens who still all reside with me. We've been fighting a rather nasty bout of ringworm - which I've now managed to catch - and they were diagnosed with tapeworm just this last Friday. Since I've now got one splotch of ringworm on my palm, I'm definitely not going to do anything crafty until it clears up.

So, how's things with everybody else?

Hippo birdie two ewe, Prodigal Son!

Irish Moss Spiral Socks

Pattern: Irish Moss Spiral

Round 1: *k4, p, k, p, k, p, k, p, k*; repeat to end
Round 2: *k5, p, k, p, k, p, k, p*; repeat to end
Round 3: *p, k5, p, k, p, k, p, k*; repeat to end
Round 4: *k, p, k5, p, k, p, k, p*; repeat to end
Round 5: *p, k, p, k5, p, k, p, k*; repeat to end
Round 6: *k, p, k, p, k5, p, k, p*; repeat to end
Round 7: *p, k, p, k, p, k5, p, k*; repeat to end
Round 8: *k, p, k, p, k, p, k5, p*; repeat to end
Round 9: *p, k, p, k, p, k, p, k5*; repeat to end
Round 10: *k, p, k, p, k, p, k, p, k4*; repeat to end
Round 11: *k2, p, k, p, k, p, k, p, k3*; repeat to end
Round 12: *k3, p, k, p, k, p, k, p, k2; repeat to end

I made these socks for the daughter of the co-worker I gave these socks to. I finished the socks on Friday.

The socks were made of fingering weight superwash Merino wool using 48 stitches with the pattern consisting of 12 stitches. The pattern can be modified for larger sizes by simply adding an extra stitch to the moss pattern and an extra stitch to the stockinette pattern.

(The second photo links to a larger version of the picture which shows the spiral to marginally better effect.)

!! Happy New Year !!

May the best day of 2006 be the worst day of 2007!