Branching everywhere

This is my first lace project and I guess it looks like it - and not much like the illustration shown from Knitty.com! I am having trouble with uploading live pictures - so you have to take my word on it. The thing that keeps me going - is the saying about how lace looks before it is blocked! So maybe I can salvage this Christmas gift. I have cast on, while watching UTexas beat Nebraska, for my son's scarf - just a simple 2x2 rib, but done in a bulky yarn, it always looks good and goes quickly. However - plans do change!!!! Somewhere during the UTennessee - Alabama game - remember it is the 3rd Saturday in October! I ran into brain freezes. Maybe it was the snow in the Nebraska game. Maybe it was the needles I was using...maybe..1st I cast on 2 times in doing the rib, wanting to end in a knit on each end. Dumb Dora cast on 32 thinking I will have 2 extra stitches - which defeated my purpose. Somewhere I realized that 30 divided by 2 was an odd number, so I would have my odd repeat. But something about the needles kept bothering me. After my multiple cast ons (because Dumb Dora again forgot to purl the next rows instead of starting with knit.) Hard to watch football and knit!! Got that straightened out......but something about the needles were bothering me. Sure seemed large for #9's. Hmmmmmmm.....the package said 9, 9 inches that is. So my bamboo needles were a size 9 inch #13 needles. So to the frog pond again, quick trip during halftime to Hobby Lobby to get another pair from their very meager supply. So 3 hours of knitting and about 3 inches of scarf. So I take back all of the good things I said about the 2x2 rib scarf.

OTN, I have Christmas presents galore - and the elves haven't shown up to work yet. I am beginning to get a little anxious, as I don't knit as fast as they do.

A Pink Ribbon

Today, as I continued to work on this "thing of computerese" I added a pink ribbon. The flowers are for my mother, who lost her battle with breast cancer almost 5 years ago, and two months short of my parents 50th wedding anniversary. October is National Breast cancer month, so please, anyone reading this, have your yearly mammogram! If you have never had one and are hesitant, as a friend, your mother, anyone to go with you and have it done.

A new chapter in my life

I chose my blog name because it describes how I feel about my life right now. I feel like I am trying to find myself in the middle of changes in my life. Sometimes it is scary not knowing what the future holds, but at other times it is exciting. I do know who holds my future, that is Christ, so I know I have to go through this period that I am in now. My youngest child is in her 3rd year of college and has gone out of state as an exchange student - read that as across country!! I am disabled and can no longer work - so that means that I also cannot do a lot of things around the house that I used to.
I have taken up knitting, had crocheted for many years, thought this would be easy! Think again! The illness is in my central nervous system and I am having trouble following simple pattern instructions. But all is well, it is just a hobby!