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Thank you, Sari, for reminding me of sisu, I was raised with the Finnish concept of sisu.  I was always taught that it is very difficult to define it, but it means stamina to continue (as Sari pointed out to me), inner fortitude, the willingness to go the extra mile.  It seems when I saw Sari’s comment, I was inspired to push on through and figure it out.  I really came close to still frogging the whole thing and starting over because I tinked back 4 rows and could just not find where it went wrong. 

Finally I realized I needed to go back and move the markers because I had gone into the previous pattern repeat.  Suddenly it just all started working.  There were still 2 stitches that were wacked out…one was a dropped yarnover and one was just not there, so I made one.  Voila! We’re on the road again!  It took me over an hour to tink back and less than 10 minutes to knit back to where I was. 

You will notice that there is now a lifeline.  Thanks, Shelly!  I guess since the pattern is so easy, I was just too confident in myself to think I needed one or something.  I’ve used them before and needed them. 

This was a great sense of accomplishment to me because every time I push on through, I am getting victory over this thing that gripped me and I’m getting part of  ‘me’ back.  Woohoo!  I’m sure I wouldn’t have persevered without the encouragement from this blog.  Cool, eh?

ps  Thanks, too, to Lauri for the encouragement in person.  She sat there watching the struggle.  And how wild is this?  I published this and had 2 comments within a few minutes!  Yea for bloglines!

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I finally got back to my shawl last night at knit night.  I know there was a simple mistake, but can I figure it out?  I also had the wrong copy of my pattern…the one that had the highlighting tape on it so I know where I am.  It wasn’t that hard to figure out the row and get myself started again.  I found a teeny error and fixed that and then started knitting again.  It is an easy knit and very possible to do while visiting.  But..when I got to those stitches right before the center, one side is seriously lacking in stitches.  The other side of the marker is fine.  Everything was working until then.  I’m not discouraged yet, but anyone who has walked this journey with me over the past few months know that I have crumbled and tossed these things to the side and moved on to something else.  I just don’t want to do that again.  I just want to stop myself from this craziness!  I’m not that far into the shawl and everything has been easy to this point…and I don’t feel that frogging monster breathing down my neck but this is a bit of a mystery to me.  I’ll fiddle with it for awhile but I think I had better not toss it to the side, at least not yet.  lol.

I did knit some silly little socks similar to the ones Liz knit for someone so I could send them to my mother-in-law.  Too bad Liz specified that they wouldn’t count for her sock-in-a-day party.  I think mine aren’t as cute as hers, but I forgot to take a picture so you won’t be able to compare. 

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