sherriknits

more on the title in a minute.

Yesterday was our 33rd wedding anniversary.  I did have to work in my shop yesterday because the city was having an artwalk so I needed to be there.  It was fun and I forgot to take my camera out on the street.  I had some ladies with spinning wheels in my shop and it was so pleasant, that whirring sound of the wheels and the smell of wool.  It was so peaceful…and then we suddenly were “serenaded” by an alternative rock band that was nearly blowing out the windows.  All I will say is it was interesting.  (When hubby and I first got married, he was in a rock band and I lived many years of having a band practicing in my basement while I was up on the second story trying to get my little toddler to sleep!  They were loud, but they were never that loud!  Thankfully they weren’t there more than an hour and a half (my guess).

We did get to go to dinner.  It’s nice to have been married this long and still like each other. 

We weren’t home long last night and we got a phone call that there were huge explosions and a fire downtown.  Since our family business and my shop is downtown, it didn’t take us long to get down there.  (altho I was sitting in the car while hubby finished washing a little boy’s hair!  we had rousted the girl out of her bedroom to hang out with him while we went.) 

It was devastating.  An 87 year old business was engulfed in flames that travelled to several other buildings.  Our son actually took several pictures that ended up on the news station website.  Here’s one of them.

I forgot to take a picture of Saturday’s sky, but it never stopped raining all day.  We’re having record rainfall this year.

And now, to the title of the post.  I hesitate to get too excited, but I think I am back on track with the mystery stole.  I knit the whole 2nd clue using the written directions and if I lost my place (frequently) I constantly had to tink back either to the beginning of the row or at least to a point I recognized.  It was really eating away at my self-confidence.  The charts are so big that I was having a lot of trouble using  them previously, my eyes were going everywhere. 

Tonight, I decided to shrink down the tiny chart (which still prints out huge on my printer) and get it on one page.  I am on clue 3 and it is just starting to move along easily again.  I didn’t like knitting “blind”.  Now if I have to tink back, I only have to go a few stitches back unless I’ve really messed up…but that isn’t as easy to do if I can see what I’m supposed to be doing.  I do hope I will now make better progress.  Hubby asked me on Friday night as we sat at Starbucks with our daughter and boyfriend if this wasn’t supposed to be fun.  It was stressful for him to watch me going back and forth on one row all evening.  I wasn’t too bugged about it but he was.  lol

Anyway, for the moment I am cautiously optomistic!

Tomorrow is my sister’s birthday as well as #2 daughter’s boyfriend’s birthday.  Tuesday is hubby’s birthday.  And Thursday is Stitch n Pitch!