This is the final rush before Wool Week starts at the end of this month – the 28th, I have just found out.

So every spare minute I have is spent in my shed (‘scuse the mess) making sheep to sell at Jamieson’s Knitwear, Commercial Street, Lerwick.

My daily routine has changed and it is full speed ahead – I make what I can in the morning, finish it after lunch and then start another, keeping going until 9pm.  I can usually make two sheep (more and I go boggly-eyed) a day as there are always other things to do as well like animals to feed, the track to poo-pick, meals to cook, etc.

After Wool Week, I can then slow down a bit and concentrate on the commissions that I haven’t done (I feel very bad about them) and even possibly get my Great Great Aunt Kate’s diaries out of her little suitcase to transcribe.  I am just in the process of putting up 1944 (which is very grim) and I have been picking away at them all summer at odd times.  I feel bad about this project too.  I really want to finish it properly.  Only 18 more diaries to go …..