Progress/Regress

So this is what the blanket looked like in relation to Christopher yesterday.

I COULD have finished it right there as you can see, but I’m kinda OCD.  There are 127 single stitches across on this blanket . . . so I’m making it 127 rows long.  It has to match . . . I don’t know why, but it just needs to! LOL

In other news, I’m struggling.  After my birth mother died, I had a stress reaction of major migraines.  This go-round of stress, I’m slipping (or maybe it’s falling) into a pretty bad depression.  I’m not sure which option is worse.

I just wish that this was over, or that I had some sort of clue what is going to happen.  In the mean time, I’m feeling like I don’t “belong” anywhere, incredibly lonely, and just . . . invisible . . . I KNOW that’s not true . . . I KNOW it.  I just don’t FEEL it right now.

Sorry to be a downer.

what a tangled web we . . . crochet?

No picture today . . . only got a few rows worked on Christopher’s blanket because when I went to pull up some more yarn, I got a HUGE rat’s nest as it were . . . was able to untangle it without having to cut the yarn, but still . . . it’s frustrating . . . I’ve had to untangle about 3 of these already . . . and they’re not small.

This is the time in a project that I start cursing (or at least grumbling) at the machines that wind the yarn.  Don’t you think there should be some way to avoid such “knottiness” (sorry, couldn’t resist).  Or maybe it’s the way I’m trying to use the yarn?

For those of you who knit/crochet, which end do you start with?  Do you find the end in the middle of the ball and pull from the inside, or do you start with the outside and work in?  As a self-taught crocheter, I guess I never learned the “right way” . . . or if there’s even a right way?

Opinions please!

In other news, Confernece was AMAZING!   I’m so glad that I got to participate in the solemn assembly to sustain President Monson on Saturday morning.  When the entire RS stood, I just got choked up . . . what an amazing thing to know that my dear sisters all around the world were standing and raising their hands to the square at the EXACT SAME TIME as me! :)  What power!

To a little less spiritual subject . . . Friday night we did indeed have a bit of a family date . . . went to our favourite buffet restaurant . . . but didn’t take that walk . . . it had started flurry-ing . . . and on Saturday morning, I woke up to this view outside my front door:  (keep in mind also that nearly all of our snow had previously melted)

And it got worse as the day went on . . . Luckily it was above 0 the past 2 days and so it’s starting to melt again.  Wednesday it’s supposed to get up to 8 (46 for you Yanks), so hopefully it’ll be gone FOR GOOD by the weekend!

God Bless!

~Kate~

PS ~ not sure what’s up . . . but WordPress “ate” my cool font . . . anyone know how/if I can change that . . . ?

even more slacker?

~4 April~

I know, I know . . . I’ve been a HORRID blogger lately . . . I went on holiday for Easter . . . LOVED visiting with family and miss them tons already . . . but it’s been difficult to get back into the swing of things so to speak.

I decided to put fringe on the ponchos . . . I think it adds a certain playful dimension, don’t you?

And, I know I did the poll, but it ended up being tied . . . and I had a WIP that I wanted to see if I could make portable (I ended up emptying out my backpack and sticking the huge ball of yarn in there . . . and voila!) because I want to finish this blanket in time for Christopher’s birthday next month.

This was started on 20 March and this is my progress as of 1 April . . . less than 2 weeks later . . . as you can see it’s working up FAST!  Hooray!

I got the pattern from http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=2395, but ended up having to correct the 2nd row . . . so if you ever use the pattern, make note that the 2nd row needs SINGLE crochets and not doubles . . . otherwise your pattern ends up looking wonky . . .

Today is the last day of spring break . . . and I hope it will be nice . . . Fridays we usually have a ‘family date’ and it would be nice to take a walk in there sometime too. 

Of course, this weekend is General Conference and I’m excited for that.  It will be strange not to have President Hinckley there, but I know President Monson is the Lord’s chosen prophet for us now and I’m looking forward to what he’ll be teaching us . . .

Have a wonderful weekend and I promise I’ll be back on Monday . . . Someone want to email me a reminder Sunday night? LOL