sherriknits

What is that mess of tangled yarn?  (well, I guess you can’t see the tangles, they are out of sight)…but I am learning a new method of two stranded knitting.  Lauri ever so patiently tried to teach me how to hold both yarns but I was getting quite the tangle and twist and we both got distracted helping another friend get pictures for Ravelry that I forgot to have her show me again.

So tonight, I visited Philosopher’s Wool and watched their video and their method is really fun!  I’m just going to practice it on a small project and see what I come up with.

Gosh, my head is just full of thoughts tonight.  We went to a wonderful wedding tonight and saw old friends. 

The wedding was beautiful (in spite of the fact that the poor bride and groom both had the flu over the last 2 days…we’re talking sick!)  You sure couldn’t tell.  She just glowed.  I have watched her grow up.  When we first started going to our church, she was the cutest little girl with little french braids and big dark eyes.  Her mama and I have been friends for a long time…we did a Bible study years ago that started out being about 15 women and ended up after many months of being just the two of us.  We were friends before, but that just really cemented it.  She is a good friend and her children are beautiful. 

We visited with friends who have moved away and I just marvel at how touching it is to meet up with people and feel like you can just pick up where you left it and still feel a bond.  We’ve all walked different journeys and life has taught us a lot, has shaken up our thinking, hopefully making us better for it.  If we can’t learn from the hard stuff and let it shape character in our lives, then what’s it all about?  I hate to ever waste a hurt…but want to learn what I need to learn and move on to becoming that person I was created to be.

I feel like the theme of my day is appreciating who God has put in my life.  I had so much fun this afternoon at my shop with two good friends who I would never have built relationship with if I didn’t have the shop.  We took pictures for Ravelry and marveled at the excellent knitting.  I aspire to be anything close to these two.  But it’s not just that.  Isn’t it fun to get to know people and find that area that you share and build relationship from that?  I feel like my life is so rich with friends, good people.

And then there are the people I have met here.  It’s good.

My little imp was not interested in posing for a picture tonight.  He’s a teenager, what else can I say.  lol

I have so many busy days ahead and so much to do between now and then….gosh.  HELP!   I need to slow down, take a deep breath and take one thing at a time. 

I woke up to beautiful sunshine.  I knew it was supposed to rain today but it was so nice and dry out.  I turned on the news while getting ready for work and all I heard was … storm coming, if you have anything to do outside, get it done early; flood warnings; wind.  Living in the Pacific NW, it is believable.

We haven’t seen much wind yet, but rain we did.

In case that looks like blue sky…

I’m watching one of the last Mariners games…I hope  a certain person doesn’t have on her Mariners socks because we’re ahead!

Today was one of the most fun days at work.  It was busy all day (yea!) and I had 2 calls within minutes of each other from old friends who live out of town and were driving down and wanted to stop in.  Fun!  I also had some other friends stop in.  It was the kind of day I love having a business.

I did get started on my 2nd Lucky Lurker sock but didn’t get too much time to knit today….too much visiting. 

Last night #1 daughter and hubby asked if they could meet us at Johnny Rocket’s in Olympia.  They wanted milk shakes.  It was not the greatest of experiences but we had fun meeting them anyway. 

She and I ran to Best Buy and she got one of the new Nano iPods.  It’s really cute.  If you’ve been reading here for any amount of time, you may remember my horrible experience with my iPod and Circuit City.  Best Buy has an extended warrantee that if you have any problems at all, you bring it in to them and they replace it IN THE STORE ON THE SPOT!  Guess where I will shop from now on.

I am off to do some knitting and watch the rest of the game.

Before I leave, I’ll share the results of a quiz I took today:

You are a Knitter, with the capital K.You are never found without needles and yarn in hand. Your favorite place is the yarn shop and you can never seeme to leave without buying needles or wool or a pattern or those fantastic stich markers. Darn yarn fumes.Your stash of yarn is the kind that spills out of closets and is taking over the house. And it’s still growing. Beware of SABLE (Stash Aquisition Beyond Life Expectancy). You may need to bequeath yarn to people in your will.Knitting is a lifestyle for you, not just a hobby. You do it for fun, to make presents, or to cool off. We need more of your kind in the world. Go start a knitting club at your school or local coffeshop.
Take this quiz!

Still working on the Lucky Lurker sock…progress is good but I got a little off this afternoon and stopped for awhile.  I didn’t get much knitting time in today but was too busy talking so I decided to work on the sock later.

I did start a ’swatch’ on a sweater.  For all the knitting I do, I have nothing to wear other than socks.  I am not going to put pressure on myself, but I fell in love with the Minimalist Cardigan in Interweave Knits and tentatively started it.  I love this deep red in Cascade 220.

(yes, I was too lazy to go find somewhere to take the picture so I just did it in my lap.)

Lauri started a group in Ravelry for Fly*dyed Fanatics.  She graciously let me be a moderator.  I went over to her house tonight and we made a banner and a badge for the group.  There are others out there because within no time, 3 people had joined the group.  The other day I started a group for my shop, too.  There is no end of fun over there at Ravelry.

Before I started my sweater, I spent an evening looking at all the sweaters others have done, read their comments, looked at what yarns were used and what people liked and changes they made.  It’s amazing how people will share their experiences and how easy it is to find the information!   Oh!  And until October 15, you can order the Beta t-shirts!  My order is in!

It was a beautiful day even if it was cool.  We were supposed to get rain but it never came.  Of course, I forgot again to get a picture…but the moon really was beautifuly tonight!

It wasn’t quite dark even though it looks like it was.

We had fun last night.  The bride-to-be and fiance and #1 son and girlfriend all met us in Olympia for dinner.  We had pizza and fun.  We were finishing up and who should walk in but the fiance’s family….he comes from a family of 9 kids.  They had just been to the movies and had never been to the pizza parlor we were at.  They had seen our car on the street and thought we were at Pizza Hut next door and they thought they’d just go to Brewery City Pizza and let us be.  It’s funny because our kids had never been there either.  (good pizza and nachos!  great salads, too.)

Yesterday afternoon, 3 of us at work decided on a whim to go get our nails done rather than lunch.  Two of us went over first because they scheduled us for 3 and 3:30.  I went 2nd and he started on mine and buffed a bit and then said I needed to soak (remember my taking off my nail tips myself a few weeks ago?  and remember I said it wasn’t a good idea?)  He got out a bowl, filled it with stuff and stuck my hands in the bowl with a towel over the top and left me to go do my sister’s nails.  I felt like I was in trouble.  He indicated to my sister that I was.  lol.  Sooooo…they got their nails done and there I sat, learning my lesson, and they got to sit and talk under the drying light while I got mine done.  :(  I opted to get tips again and then when they get to the point my last ones did, I will have them removed (properly) and give my nails a rest for awhile.  I love the tips and wonder if I should ever have gotten started on it. 

At knit night the other night, my friend brought in socks she had knit with scraps of all her sock yarns.  I could not believe how cool they are.  She used Trekking, Opal, Step (I think), and Tofutsies.  We all were so amazed at how well the colors blended.  Gosh, if I ever coveted a pair of socks, these would be it.

Most of us all immediately started wondering what we had in our own stashes! 

I spent my entire day at work trying to get my old computer set up so i don’t have to take my laptop there and back every day.  I am not very gifted when it comes to hooking up anything electronic…I can use my computer just fine, but I am so lost doing any setting up.  Hubby didn’t have time and told me to just follow the colors.  I did get it running in no time, but for some odd reason, all of the usb ports have quit working.  I took #1 son there tonight and we took it all apart and couldn’t figure anything out.  He checked all the drivers and all of the stuff I don’t understand.  We went to Staples twice and finally got online with an ethernet cable but now I have no working printer and I do need the usb port.  I did a search and found a few more things to try but I didn’t really enjoy having my whole day shot.

I am so excited.  I joined a sock club and got my first yarn today.  I’m not going to put pictures here until people start getting their yarn.  People were wondering on Ravelry and since I’m close to where the yarn comes from,  it was probably only mailed yesterday. 

Tonight at home, I was wondering why I didn’t wind it at work so I undid the hank and had it hanging off my arm and got excited about the Mariner’s coming from behind (and winning!) and as hubby walked thru the door, I was telling him and the dog came running in and put his head straight through the hank of yarn!  I ended up with a bunch of it all tangled and hanging loose!  My dear hubby held out his arms when I looked at him and we got it wound with almost no trouble.  I don’t recommend doing it when the Mariner’s are doing one of their coming from way behind, though.  He kept scolding me for not paying attention!  All is well now and I will re-wind it tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Friday and date night and I am so ready! 

I barely slept last night.  Sometime around 3 I got up and placed a book order.  I didn’t let myself start doing anything else because I had to be to work today at 9.  I didn’t quite make it.  Doesn’t really matter, though.  I spend my Wednesday mornings doing books for my family’s business.  My sister and brother were outside painting the building and I spent all morning and part of the afternoon trying to get a bank statement reconciled.  I did it 3 times before I could find the mistake, a transposed number.  Do you ever just have the worst time sticking to what you need to be doing?  I was really wanting to do just about anything else. 

I didn’t knit a stitch today.  However, last night was knit night and I did finish this little sock, no big accomplishment.  I got the second one started.  It’s funny, they are just weird to photograph.  It didn’t help that hubby was making fun of me for taking a picture of my sock on the floor next to the dog.  It’s dark and I didn’t feel terribly creative.

I heard today that Cat’s book has gone into 2nd printing and the books are getting hard to get.  I love it.  She deserves to have this do so well.  I managed to get ahold of 6 more for my shop and one is already sold.  This was my 3rd order since beginning of August!  (good thing I got up in the night to order, right?)

My co-worker was not thrilled to see that I had taken my nail tips off myself.  I think it isn’t really recommended.  I took her my Jil Jordan nailcare kit and she buffed and sanded on one hand this morning.  This afternoon, she did the other when she took a break   I promised her that next time, I would do it right. 

This post is so boring I can’t even believe I am going to put it out there.  haha

ps  Liz commented yesterday that we need to hold on to that spirit that brought out the best in many people after the tragic events of 9-11.  She is so right and I really do see that, too.

I just got off the phone with a dear friend who asked me to pray for a family member who is terribly ill.  Remember to tell those around you that you love them. 

It was kind of a theme of my day now that I think of it.  I heard on the radio on the way to work a book discussion about writing notes to someone in your life who needs to hear from you today.  I only heard about 5 minutes of it, but I think he said a person should make a list and then choose someone. 

Then tonight on the news, Ann Curry was sitting with a group of elderly ladies discussing the importance of friendship… there are really some health benefits to having multiple friends.

When I listened to my friend weeping for her family and asking for prayers for strength, I thought about that news story and told her about it.  We told each other how much we cared about each other.  The thing I love about friendships is that not one of my friends takes the place of another, they all add something beautiful to my life.  Relationships are important to me.

We had a funny end to our conversation…she told me there was a huge truck in front of her house and it was kind of creeping her out.  Her hubby was in bed.  All of a sudden she started screaming and screaming, which led to me screaming and screaming for her to tell me if she was ok and wondering what to do….when she told me she’d stepped on a slug! okkkkkk  thanks for scaring the daylights out of me!   lol

Anyway…do you have someone you need to love on today?  Take a minute to reach out.

pss  Yea Mariner’s!  I just woke up hubby and #2 daughter who had fallen asleep on the couch when we won the game tonight!  (finally)

I have to say, it has been so much fun to have my little shop.  My customers have become my friends and constantly bless me just by being able to get to know them.  The other night we had our knit night and look what one of my friends brought me!

She knit me a bead bracelet and I just love it!

It’s so beautiful, I would have worn  this to the wedding!  All day yesterday, I just kept looking at it and enjoying it so much.  Thanks so much, Amber!

This is my latest sock using Cat’s new method.

Next sock, I think I will do single strand and make it for normal wear.  It’s just nice to do something quick so I can work through the different parts and try to get the concept to stick in my head a little more each time.

Last night we went on our mini-date.  We were on a quest for shoes for the little imp.  Who knew it would be so hard!  I couldn’t find any locally so we went to Olympia.  The first store we went to had nothing for him, but hubby and I both ended up with new shoes…it was buy one get on half-off and since I have found I can’t wear any cheap shoes but my Crocs any more, it seemed like a good deal.  I actually could have bought 3 pairs, but I resisted.

The one good thing is that I wear my shoes for years and years.

Then we went to Barnes and Noble and I could not believe what I found!  I was restless and couldn’t find anything to look at so I was wandering around and came upon a table of audio books.  I have looked and looked for this book on audio but could never find it for less than $30.  I could barely contain my excitement when I found this for $15 after our membership discount and an extra coupon!

I read this last summer, a few chapters at a time at B&N.  I knew I wanted to buy it but I wanted to savor it by reading bits at a time.  When we left on vacation last year, I finally bought it (the same copy I had been reading there) and made myself make it last.  I don’t know why it affected me so deeply, but it really did.  I will listen to it while on vacation this year.  Hubby and I listened to it on the way home last night and he actually enjoyed what he heard but I bet I can’t get him to listen to 16 hrs but we’ll see.  We have listened to books before together in the car and loved it.  He just can’t do his channel surfing that way.

This weekend or early next week, we’re taking off for a little bit on vacation.  The little imp is pretty excited because look what’s sitting in front of our house waiting to take us away.

We have some great friends who lend us this almost every year for the past 6 years or so.  This time it will just be the 3 of us taking off and then the older kids will come when they can.  Some of them will have to set up a tent because our family is growing.  We love getting to do this.  The little imp is hilarious, he thinks he owns this.  When we go to our friends’ house, he goes straight into it and sits in *his* seat…the passenger side.  Good thing I hate sitting there.  I get to do whatever I want, watch a movie, read, knit…and they navigate. 

It’s always fun trying to make something to eat while we travel, usually sandwiches…and not lose it all over the floor.  Our funniest experience was when we were trying to get to Ka-knee-ta (sp?) and it was so scary winding down or up on the narrow road.  I was just about to scream “slow down!” (we were only going about 30 but it was so rattle-y and steep) but before I could get the words out, the refrigerator door flew open and we had pop cans and fruit rolling everywhere.  The kids and I were laughing so hard and trying to gather it all up that we didn’t have to endure the rest of the trip.  I loved the campground there but never want to do that again, it was awful.

We leave this weekend and have 2 weeks off altho we won’t be away all that time.  Woo hoo!

A few months ago, my niece asked each family member to make a quilt block for her daughter’s first birthday.  I was just getting caught up in wedding plans and told her there was no way I could get it done before the wedding.  She said she really didn’t need them until early August.  For the last few weeks, it has been eating on me.  The worst part of it for me is coming up with an idea.  We each have a square piece of cotton, mine is pink.  Last week, I thought maybe I’d knit a sock shape or a sweater shape and sew it to the square, but it just wasn’t clicking.  Yesterday, Lauri  suggested just doing a square.  Bingo.

The lighting isn’t great and it is not really blocked yet.  Tomorrow I will attach it to the cotton square and try to write our name on the cotton.  (gosh those pens are expensive, I hope it works!)

What do I really want to be doing?  Knitting a sock using Cat Bordhi’s new pathways method.  Tomorrow I will do that since I only have one day before the new clue comes out for the stole.

I had to share this little picture.  Melissa sent the dear boy a belated birthday card.

Thanks, Melissa…he loved it!

And while I’m at it, we just got the pics from the photographer.  The kids bought the digital rights.  There are over 700 to sort through..and their album is just beautiful.  We have this skinny little white book…they have this  huge black incredibly laid out album…and then this disk with tons more pics.

How could you not smile at these?

He’s on his way to get me after walking the grandmas down the aisle.  Someone right in this area got his attention every single time.

And his favorite food in all the world?  Vanilla ice cream!

And the moment that brought the big gasp ~ the bride and her daddy.  (imagine the sound those huge doors made when they were opening!)

And now I am going to steal a few minutes of knitting before I go to bed!

The last few days are a blur to me.  Good blur, though.

The other day at work, the noise and activity continued across the street.  It is very fun watching this grand old theater getting dressed up again, even if the constant warning signals from the equipment is very annoying.  They are giving her a new coat of paint.

 (that’s my reflection in the window…lol)

I could NOT believe it when I left work and saw what they put on the roof!

 (Do you remember the one from the wedding that my son and my then-to-be son-in-law made it appear everywhere I went after I said it would NOT be part of the wedding!)  Do these plastic things fly?

Yesterday was the big game day.  We left town at 12:15 pm to make it to the 7:05 game.  Sounds silly for a 2 hour drive, but by the time we got there with our two cars, we barely could find a parking place on the street.  We did get to park within a block of Safeco Field, though.  We were probably the last ones to get a spot.  We didn’t have much time before they opened the gates at 5:05…we had to make several little stops on the way.  Next year, I will set the goal of leaving at 10.

Here’s my handsome little man waiting to go to his first major league game.  My kids didn’t get the sock picture at all.  However, the newlyweds thought it was not at all silly to take pics of themselves!

It was early when the Fox Sports Network had their cameras rolling.

It was really cool to see them interviewing some of the many guys who were knitting. 

I took my Jaywalkers to work on as a mindless knit.  Last year I had been working on a Nancy Bush sock and it was way too hard to concentrate on while trying to watch the game.  We had 18 people all together in our party and I couldn’t even count the 7 stitch repeat.  (maybe the fact that there was a lady behind us who talked non-stop, we all began to wonder if she ever came up for air…)

So, I switched projects.  In no time at all, I did the typical-for-me thing.

How’s this for pretty?

The bride actually agreed to knit…she hadn’t touched needles in about 3 years and then had only learned because when she was class advisor in her school, she had gotten the kids started  knitting wrist bands for a fundraiser.  Her little sis and a friend had taught the group of kids to knit but when they were constantly coming to her later for help, she had to break down and learn herself.  Soooo…in the car on the way up to the game, I gave her a quick lesson in knitting continental-style as opposed to throwing…and she just started knitting!  (a natural?)  She, like me, is left-handed…I was impressed with how easily she got it.  We do knit right-handed.

She has about 2 inches of a dish cloth started!

Everyone else seemed to have a great time, too.

I did make good progress on my sock.

However, I got that far to realize it was way too big.

The Mariners lost, but we had a great time so we won.  I got to see some good friends there…my friend who owns Village Yarn and Tea and one of my rep friends from Skacel.  I did buy a few things from Village Yarn and Tea.

 I’m just a sucker for bags and they had it in my current favorite color.  The yarn matches!  Actually, I am so enjoying lace knitting that I bought this SuriBlue and got their shop pattern as well as a pattern called Stole-n-bases. 

I also got a belated birthday gift!

Those are chocolates and very short needles that I’ve wanted to try.  Thanks, Lauri!

I couldn’t resist taking a pic of the brothers-in-law.

The ride home was something else.  #1 son was driving the Jeep and got ahead of us once we hit the freeway.  We were rather horrified when we saw him take the Renton exit by accident.  Traffic was heavy and we couldn’t get over.  I called 3 cell phones before one of them answered and hubby told them how to get back to the freeway since they didn’t take the easy, obvious route.  Shortly after the phone call, we got into the worst traffic mess….5 lanes of freeway going in to 1 lane.  The kids got on the freeway ahead of us and ended up home at least 20 min. before we did.  It took us ages to get thru the slow-moving or stopped stretch of the freeway.  I am now thankful for practicing knitting in the dark.  I turned on the light while we were stopped and frogged my sock up to the ribbing.  I then decided to do a wider rib of 6×2 and did this in the dark with no lights except once when I couldn’t get the last purl on the needle to work.

I actually knit back to where I had been.  Notice the closeup of the clock

Can you see what it says?  12:47…and we were an hour from home.

Are you still with me?  We did get our date tonight…since we were pretty tired, we just went to our favorite place for a bit.  The roses have been cut…I can’t remember if they re-bloom, but it seems to me they do.

We have a wedding tomorrow, then I am headed to Seattle to spend the night so I can take a class from Cat Bordhi at 7:30 a.m. Sunday. 

Yesterday was the little imp’s birthday.  I should have looked closer at the pictures I got, not so many good enough to share. 

Our family has a tradition of “birthday breakfast”.  He was up early and was excited for his request for french toast.   But important things first.

This was the year for musical cards…he got 4.  I bought one for him in January or so…and then the newlyweds got the same one! High School Musical of course.  He also got Shrek and Pirates of the Caribbean.  We had dueling cards for awhile yesterday.

We aren’t sure he understands the concept of a gift card, but when he gets to go buy a dvd, it will make a lot of sense to him!  He wanted to get “Night in the Museum” but he actually got that for a gift.  We watched it last night and it was hilarious.

He also got to go to lunch with Daddy.  Every birthday person gets to have that privilege.  This year we moved up from McDonald’s to the favorite pizza parlor in town.  Make that “pepperoni, cheese, sauce, that’s all.  And ice water, please.”  The favorite waitress wasn’t working yesterday, though.

He blew his candles out in the silliest way I have ever seen…one at a time!

(Can you guess what his favorite shirt is these days???)

Today I continued to move along on my mystery stole.  I only have to backtrack one row if at all.  Today, though, I was struggling through one row (why is it that one will just give you trouble over and over? ) and I realized I didn’t even know which row I was on…my tape was covering 2 rows and I had no idea until I realized one of them had beads on it and this wasn’t a bead row.    Gosh, this silly thing will find any way to confuse me.  I have been able to work on it while carrying somewhat of a conversation with others, though.  I have stayed with the written version of the chart and still feel like I am knitting blind but I don’t make as many mistakes…my hope is that I can go back to the visual charts next project, but this one has no repeats so no opportunity to memorize.

I am on row 123 now, almost halfway through the 2nd clue.  Since this Friday we’ll get a clue and then next week we won’t, I’ll be caught up soon, I’m sure.

A friend stopped by today and blessed me with 2 books on cd for my iPod.  If I can figure out how to get them onto my computer, I’ll be a happy camper.  I’ve done it before but the ‘how’ is eluding me tonight!  My iPod is safely in my purse after taking a little trip down the hall yesterday.  I don’t want to point any fingers but everyone had wondered why it was where it was but me (who didn’t see it there) and one little imp.  I only could find my jumbled up earphones under my pillow and am amazed I didn’t wake up hubby trying to find it last night.  My Palm Pilot makes a pretty good flashlight but I never found the iPod until this morning.  (it seems someone might have asked me why it was where it was, though..don’t ya think? )

Back to knitting and the Mariners…..

Did you do anything fun to celebrate Independence Day? 

It was a busy day for us, mostly because I wanted to go to Macy’s for their one-day sale and it gave hubby the perfect reason to go to Guitar Center.  We drove up the freeway in the Jeep with the top off, my hair was just lovely by the time we got back home.  lol  The kids were jammed in the back seat.

This was actually after we left Macy’s.  Let me tell you…we had quite the time loading our stuff in the jeep!  Hubby got some super bargains, not too big, at Guitar Center, the kids got some stuff at Ross…and I made a haul at Macy’s.  We had to stuff things in everywhere we could. 

Look what I got!

Those are all serving dishes.  It was because I got this from daughter’s boyfriend.

I told him I’d never have had to go spend all that money if he hadn’t gotten me started.  lol  Nah…I’m a shopper and I knew the sale was coming.

I also got the last color I really wanted.  I think it’s called Plum.

Excuse the dust but they all come out of the box this way and hubby wanted to get going while I was trying to take the picture.  He never complains, but thinks it’s a bit silly. 

On the way home from shopping, we drove out to our favorite place.  The kids had never been there, mostly cuz all we ever do is park and look at the water.  Today we walked down on the dock and sat awhile.

Mom, could you please just hurry?

I thought I’d get a picture looking back up towards land….and someone popped in the picture.  I never liked having my picture taken like my kids do!

We couldn’t go home without having a snack.  (the little imp could live on ice cream)

Now to the knitting.

I bought myself a new book and am having fun reading through it.  A friend took a class in Bohus Stickning and I have obsessed over wanting to learn it ever since I saw her cuffs she made.

Last night, I was getting ready to go to bed and I thought…hmmm, I haven’t knit on my stole all day, maybe I’ll just knit one row over and one back.  Wellllllll…..I ended up knitting several, and then dropping a stitch and couldn’t find it so I had to go back to my lifeline, which was in there some wonky way.  I had to go back 2 more rows from that and then, obsessed as I am, I had to knit back up a few rows.  I was rather upset at myself for even starting it so late.

This morning, I got up early and spent some time on the porch rocking and knitting.  As I was knitting, I saw a mistake way back where the lifeline was.  I knew I had gotten off and just did a cheat fix because I couldn’t see where the problem was.  After I knit about an inch and a half, it was very clear where it got off even though the specific place didn’t show.  I kept knitting and convincing myself it was ok.  I could learn to block in a way that it wouldn’t be so noticable (and it wouldn’t have been to anyone but me anyway).  I just couldn’t see going back.

I sat down to knit after our afternoon venture and wouldn’t you know it?  I came to a stitch that I could not figure out what happened.  I’ve seen a few of those and haven’t figured out if it is an uncompleted stitch or what….  after I tried the next pattern row, I realized it was off so I started tinking back.  Well, you know how sometimes the mistake just keeps going with you?  I finally decided (after getting quite frustrated) to just frog back to the lifeline and fix that other error.  It is a pain trying to get this yarn back on the needles from the lifeline.  It is white and the yarn is vanilla.  I learned my lesson a long time ago and don’t use a color on white.  Since I got it back on the needles, I have now gone back 2 or 3 rows trying to find the error that was already there (I knew that it happened the row before the lifeline and kick myself for not putting that lifeline in when I told myself to…the row BEFORE the error).

So, this is what it looked like when hubby is impatiently patiently standing there waiting to go to the bride and groom’s house (they’re on their honeymoon still) to watch fireworks. 

It is a little smaller than that right now.  I spent the time while waiting for the fireworks to start trying to roll the yarn back up.  Hubby was scolding me for doing it in the semi-dark after I got a knot and had to break the yarn.  Arrrggghh.  I can’t seem to learn some lessons.

I do know I will be happier with this when I get going again..even though I was only a few rows from being done with clue 1. 

I got a really cute gift from a friend yesterday.

They are stitch markers and they say:  I believe … Harmony … Wisdom … and an ice cream cone.  I love them and it’s fun to have something that makes you think about that person who blessed you. 

And now…I leave you with a few pictures of the honeymooners.  Take note of the tree that they are passing … she flies by on the top and he is well below it.  She got to do this in Costa Rica last November and loved it so much.  They’re having a great time.  Might as well, when they get home…life begins. 

They actually have a lot to look forward to…she’s always known she’d be married to a youth pastor.  They have great things ahead of them.

Happy 4th!