A new beginning ......

Tomorrow is a land mark day for me as I will become officially retired. After 36 years of working as an engineer in the petrochemicals and oil industry I am hanging up my PPE , calculator and stopping attending all meetings. Not that it has all been bad , far from it , but it's time for me to move on.

This last week I have been practicing for my new life, on a final week of holiday. Lots of felting , some cooking and a long walk.

I have also been organising my felting room including separating my knitting books from my felting books.

Knitting still wins shame !.

Finishing felting and knitting WIPs.

 

A felted tree ornament.

Two rag dolls made many years ago by my mother modeling a couple of the baby hats I have completed. Patterns from one of the collections from the talented woolywormhead.

Some carded sky ready for a new project.

It feels good .

What now . Well as we used to say at work , focus and finish!.

Finish my felting course by say October.

Decide where my felting focus will be. This will require some search and experimentation so will not happen over night , maybe September or maybe even December.

Be organized , and have structure to my week. This is little difficult at the moment as I await the birth of my first grandchild , who does not knew anything about planning yet .

And eventually on the medium term move back to the UK

Enough to test my artistic skills and keep my project management skills working I think.

 

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WIPs

Well as I am in a bit of a lull feltingwise whilst I wait for the final assessment from ArtyBird of my course work. I decided now was the time to revamp my small felting room. I have extended the table, courtesy of Ikea and almost painted all the walls white. This was a real slog , and I have never known pale blue paint be so hard to obliterate .

Here it is almost ready and too tidy for creative thought and my first and biggest WIP

In the meantime to keep my creative thoughts flowing I have been working on my knitting WIPs. Time to try and finish a few. I can't admit to the real number of knitting WIPs I have. That is a secret. Here's just two.

 

A Camden hat by WoolyWormhead. I was going to take part in the KAL for this hat on ravelry but somehow have been distracted by the painting. This will be a Christmas present for the hat lover in my family.

The start and possibly the finish of a blanket, unless I get on and order some more wool. This is also a present for an undefined date in the future , so no need to hurry with the ordering.

One things for sure I need to finish something before felting overtakes me again. Which will win?

 

 

 

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