Update on my hands and favour

 I wanted to talk about my hands and if they have become any better.

Well, no they haven't. Some days it's better and it doesn't hurt as much when I do nothing. But even pushing down the shift button on my keyboard with my thumb aggravates it and I get shooting pains.

Days after I have done stuff where I had to hold or grab things it just hurts. I can't do a whole evening of beading either because the pinching of thumb and pointy finger hurts in the joint.

So it very much looks like I have to give up knitting for good. I was afraid of that. It already caused me an endless grieving process listing yarn and knitting books on eBay. It's painful and I feel like crying a lot of times. 

So please can you do me a favour and head over to eBay (click on the logo) and help me to get rid of everything as quickly as possible so I don't get depressed every time I look at all the bags and boxes full of yarn?

Thank you so much!

Quick update

 I think I mentioned somewhere that I had to stop knitting for an extended time, maybe forever, that depends if my thumbs are recovering.

I started a lot of new hobbies to compensate and they seemed to have taken over here. Instead I started a new blog that is just about all the other hobbies I have. 

This space I will try and figure out how I can add a kind of a shop thing where you could purchase pdfs of my vintage patterns. I don't know yet how I will go about this, but I need a new space for it because I cancelled my personal website. It has become more and more expensive, now almost £110 a year but I don't get anything more for it. And claiming it's because they have upgraded to SSD drives just doesn't cut it with me anymore.

My new space is called

The AuDHDer Crafty Space

More yarn listed on eBay

 I have just listed a few discontinued yarns, like Patons Merino Extrafine 4ply and Aran, 2 packs with patterns for a sweet baby/toddler cardigan which includes the discontinued Stylecraft Eskimo. Some other King Cole, Patons and Stylecraft, as well as some Hobbii and Knit Pick and a shedload of Drops yarn.

In the coming weeks I will add even more. For now I have decided to keep just certain yarns, like most of the sock yarn, all of the Lang Yarn (not sure about the yarn I had planned for baby items), some other yarn and for definite the Hayfield Aran will stay.

I hope by the time I have finished my yarn stash will have halved.

So please have a nose around and help me recover some of the money, so I can invest in other hobbies.

eBay

Maybe I have to clarify why I am so drastically selling my stash. After knitting like there is no tomorrow, I severely damaged my thumb joints and I am suffering from the dreaded knitter's thumb. It had become so painful that I couldn't cast on anymore.

A few months ago I finally went to see my GP. Because I just had been vaccinated I had to wait a few weeks. So, a few weeks ago I received injections into the thumb joints. And my GP begged me to stop knitting, for at least a year. I didn't knit for a few months before I went and it didn't make a difference. I used about every cream there is and nothing would help against the inflammation.

Thankfully, the injections seem to work but I still have to be careful not to aggravate it with a strange twist.

So since then I have been beading, mainly bracelets, I started cross stitch again, I bought some nice fabric I will make into lovely things, I still enjoy diamond paintings a lot and I fill my colouring books with wonderful colours.

One day, I might knit again and that's why I want to keep at least some yarn and all the tools.

Free shipping just died

 I nearly fell off my chair when I read through the new Royal Mail postage costs.

Let me explain it in numbers.

I sell a vintage pattern for £2.25 that should include P&P. So for each sold pattern I receive £1.66. Yes, eBay charges me £0.59 in fees. If I list on those 80% fees reduced days of course I get more.

Postage use to be £1.15

cardboard backed envelope £0.25

A4 punched pockets £0.04

Total £1.44

I earn 22p per pattern. Yippee! (sarcasm)

If I carried on selling patterns for £2.25

It'll work out as a loss of £0.18

I will have no choice but to reduce the pattern price and charge P&P instead.

I'm sorry, but I want to make some money. I know I will not be a millionaire one day selling vintage patterns but I don't want to make a loss either.