Don't Spit in the Wind and Other Things I Have Learned!

These are things that I have learned that can make your life easier: Don't spit in the wind, don't date Little Joe Cartwright, (for sure don't get engaged to him) , don't volunteer for Captain Kirk's landing party unless you have a recurring role in the show, and last but not least, plan your afghans carefully!! I finally have finished my knit afghan and there are some things that I really like about it. I like all three of the different patterns that I used. I like my colors--the picture may look like cream and gray, but the yarn label says it is French Lavendar. My sister, who has seen the afghan in person, wonders why I would make a gray afghan. I repeat--it is cream and French lavendar--that's my story and I am sticking to it!!

There are also some things that I don't like about it--it is way to wide-I guess I could have made it longer to even it out, but it is pretty huge as it is--very heavy and very warm. It's hard to tell if it is too warm when we have had 90 degree weather but definitely, this is a warm blanket. If I had planned it more carefully, I would have had three leaf panels and two lattice panels. The problem was, that I put the edging on the two end panels on the outside edge and then put edging on both side of the trellis panels --resulting that the middle leaf panel would not have been the same size and would have looked funny. I liked the bouquet panel (my one sister says diamonds and my other sister says grapes) but I made it too wide--thus resulting in a very wide blanket.

Anyway, it is done--I have learned some things for next time and I can move on to another project.

June 11, 2007

Progess on my knit afghan--I have decided to call my afghan the garden--I have leaves, a lattice panel and the middle section will be bouquets. I have another leaf section completed and have five repeats done on the lattice panel. I need 21 repeats. I have not yet started the center panel. I should be done with this project but have not been in the mood to hurry.

The following picture denotes why I should not have internet access and a credit card--it is just too darn easy to order anything you want or think that you want. You don't have to get dressed, you can shop at 3AM--(I frequently have) and there is no time to back out of a purchase. In a store, you at least have to walk to the check out counter so you have a few minutes to talk to yourself about whether this is a good purchase for you-on the internet, you just have to click that little button! This yarn was bought strictly on impulse. It was super, super cheap and I thought surely I would have some need for this yarn. Because it was so cheap--I even bought tons of it. Of course, many times things are super cheap for a reason. This yarn has been taking up yarn space for over a year and I have decided I must do something with it to move it out. This is all I can think of to do with it.

Progress So Far

It's a little cooler today and there is a thunder storm passing through. Probably shouldn't be on the computer but I am going to hope my surge protector works!

Last night I had a little visitor. I tried to get a picture but you can't really see it very well. I heard this fluttering noise and when I looked over at my patio door, I saw this little bird--not a baby bird, maybe a teenage bird that was sitting on the step looking in at me. He just sat there, must have been resting and getting out of the rain. Even when Jasmine--the dog--went over and barked at him, he just continued to sit and look in at everything. After he had rested a bit, pretty soon he hopped down and went on his way.

I have not been doing any knitting or crocheting other than my knit afghan. I now have two panels done and even sewed together. I am afraid that it is falling in to that disappointing category. When I start a project, I always have a picture in my head of how beautiful it will be--this is not quite measuring up to what I thought it would look like. I have decided to continue on, in hopes that it will turn the

corner and begin to look like I wanted it to look.

Since two of the three panels will be the same, it would make the most sense to work on them while I have the patterns pretty well in my head. Of course, what I want to do is start on the middle panel to give me something new to work on--I will see--maybe I have enough needles to start all three.