While having time to just lay around letting your back heal is nice, laying around realizing how messy your apartment is and that you can’t do anything about it, not so nice.

Today, I think I’m at about 85-90%. Things are definitely still rather sore and tense, but I can do things like tie my own shoes and not walk like an old lady.

I did get a nice little bit of knitting done. I’m on the last repeat of Chart 2 of the Flower Basket shawl that I started sometime just after Stitches West 2007. I’m making it out of a 500 yd skein of 100% cashmere that I got from Just Our Yarn. (Side note: ooooo… they finally have puchasing on their website… This is the closest to the color I’m using on the website. Unfortunately, they don’t have the other color I had considered buying which was a pretty light blue with a couple darker colors mixed in. I used their 10/2 Tencel to knit my Icarus shawl last summer. Both yarns are really nice, and there’s good yardage for the price. They were also really nice at Stitches.)

I also finished the Swallowtail Shawl I was knitting out of my own handspun. Unfortunately, I have no pictures to show cause I haven’t been able to clear off my normal blocking area, so it’s just a pile of boiled ass at the moment. Once I’m back on my feet, the fiber room is getting a reorg, and the spare bed will be cleared off so I can block stuff.