As requested, a place for us to ask for help and advice from other stitchers and to show the things we make.
Over to you.:-D
Have a lovely time Maggie ...... it sounds fun 
I'm wanting to knit something for my niece for her wedding day next month, have spent two days looking for the pattern I know I have it, the annoying thing is I do keep most off my patterns/books together ............ so where on earth is it 
If by chance anyone has a copy of Alan Darts Bride & Groom bunny rabbits they would be willing to forward to me I shall be eternally grateful ..... & then I'm sure my own copy will miraculously turn up 
It's supposed to be even better tomorrow Maggie so we'll expect to see you on the beach in your bikini!! 
It's not warm enough for me! I am still wearing my three layers! lol
The Dorset Button lady had an accident last night so wasn't there but we all sat & knitted squares & nattered which was quite entertaining. Hopefully we will do the buttons next month.
CK, as for jumping up and down, hahahahaaa I couldn't do that before the op never mind now!!!
I is a heavy coo, I do slow slow quick quick ...knackered!
me leg is a bit sore today, as my calf muscles are getting back in action. Tbh, it's my back that's suffering the most, as I've been limping for so long I must have muscles in the wrong places now....could do with a massage..please send someone quick!!
Hope you get all your medical problems sorted Chris.
CB - that seems very quick to be going back to work? Don't you rush and set yourself back.
Just finished this cotton jumper, which was part of a Knitalong. Made a bigger size ready for later in the year.
No idea why that picture is upside down?
Just had this picture of my Grandson enjoying ice cream at the beach...
they're having a laff there Chris, if you go back and they start messing about again, tell them you are'nt going anywhere until they sort the blood test out. Give them the doctors number and let them fight it out!!! it's costing you a fortune in petrol all this messing about!!
Phlebotomists...not vampires.....
A vampire extracts blood so they will happily survive...
A Phlebotomist extracts blood so you will happily survive....
There are over a hundred 'routine' blood tests that each Phlebotomist must know by heart,both the abbreviation used for the test and the tubes used as well as the conditions that the sample must be transported under...a bit like having over a hundred knitting pattern terms that you need to commit to memory as well as the type of wool needed,size of knitting needles to be used and exactly how much it will cost to post the finished item that you must be able to call to mind instantly...
Other well less used tests often have to be researched separately....not all information is immediately available to a Phlebotobist and the Lab has to be rung...
Doctors sometimes request obscure tests when the patient has unusual symptoms which even the Lab has to look up....data changes consistently as new testing methods are developed and what was once done in one way can suddenly be done in another completely reverse manner...often this bit of vital information is not passed down to the Phlebotomist on a day to day basis....
I'm sure the Phlebotomists look forward to your visits as much as you look forward to seeing them...'difficult bleeders' tend to know that there will be problems ahead so sometimes tense up making the job even more stressful for everyone concerned....a vein is more usually located by touch than sight so a tense,stressed patient is more difficult to extract blood from than a relaxed,calm one...
Anyway talking of needles....please can anyone suggest a good needle threader that's a bit more robust than those little bit of wire thingy ones?
If you find some twishy let me know please! I bugg broke about four on Saturday night just trying to thread granddaughter's sewing machine!
Books, I thought you said your GP had given you his mobile number in case they said they couldn't do it again? You should have rung him while you were still there and perhaps you would have got it done.
I've been searching CG but with no luck really...I'm too tight to pay out a lot in case it doesn't work so was hoping to pick a brain or two on here........
bit of a long shot I know....
finding a brain that is....
I was watching an overlocker tutorial and the demonstrator had a long handled tool that she threaded the needles in the machine from front to back by putting the thread in a groove in the end and PUSHING it through the eye. It looked so much easier!!! I want one!!!
