This too, shall pass.......

I knew there was a reason why I wanted to have shawls on hand! I just got a prayer request for an 11-year old girl who's been fighting cancer most of her life. She's fighting for her life right now and could use all the prayers we can muster. I just talked with the lady who has connections with the girl and she was thrilled that I had a shawl to give her. She should be picking it up some time tonight. I wish I had a more colorful one to give then bordeaux, but alas, that's not the case at the moment. Oh, I'm going to be knitting a lot again I think, so I can have more shawls waiting. It seems to me like there have been many, many prayer requests for cancer and the like lately, and I just can't keep up. I'm pleased that we have more people starting in the ministry, but we still need more, and faster knitters/crocheters!


ETA: I managed to get the shawl to the lady who is taking care of the little girl. She told me she's taken a turn for the worse, and they've asked all family to come and be at the hospital. They're praying for a miracle.

I finally finished knitting and putting together the bag I've been working on. Now to felt it. Dustin's going to help me, but I doubt it'll happen today *looks over as he sleep, and sighs*. I can't wait to see how it turns out though.

I got my free skein of Disco yarn in today. I actually like the look of it. It's green and sparkly. A nice, dark green at that. Since it's only one skein, it's going to take some thinking to figure out what to make with it. Anyone have any ideas?????

I'm also working on my sock again. It's nice to see it come together again. Still have a ways to go with it though, not even halfway down the foot yet. But then, I've been busy with other stuff, like yet another prayer shawl. Which I ought to finish up, so I can give it away. I hope to get several things finished this week, so I can get soe space freed (is that the right way of writing that?) up in my yarn drawer. Getting the bag out there will help a lot, that's for sure.
I've decided to wait with finishing my green turtleneck sweater, since I'm losing weight. I have a feeling I may need to undo the whole thing here soon, because I've gone down in size already. Not a bad thing, really ^_~, I won't mind too much. At least not since it's for this reason lol.

I've got a few ideas running through my head as well at the moment. Not that I can do anything with it for the time being. Need to clean house first, create some space and stuff lol. I also need to figure out how to deorate the house for the holidays. I didn't have anything up last year, and I refuse to let that be the case again this year. I may not be getting a tree again, but dangit, Christmas it shall be!

Just doing the tag-list thing ^_^

I have been a knitting fiend this last week. I've been working hard on my turtleneck sweater, and I'm almost done with the front. Just stuck on the neck of it, but hopefully I'll be able to get with brightshadowsky soon and figure it out.

Aside from that, I've finally put together the sweater I started last year, and Trina's stopping by tonight and hopefully is going to show me how to do the edging, so that'll be finished too.

I finished the prayer shawl I've been working on for ages, and gave it away last Sunday. She loved it.

I started knitting a bag out of the red acrylic yarn that needle_ninja gave me ages ago. The body of it is done and I know how I'll do the shoulderstrap. Once that's done, I am going to line it with fabric, so it won't sag and stretch. I learned how to pick up stitches on this one, which is cool.

I've been working on the BBBB I started ages ago and have not gotten very far yet. Not even halfway, but oh well.

Uhm, I think that's it. Still, a very productive week. Hopefully I can finish both sweaters fully this week, so I'll have something new to wear. I've got a ton of ideas for other stuff to make. Among other things, a bag out of the wool that brightshadowsky/yarnpirate and I recycled. And ohhh have I got ideas for sweaters! I'm starting to get a grasp of patterns now, so watch out! I just can't seem to stop knitting lately. Though I should start up with some of the other crafts I've got going soon.

I will try and post pictures though, once I have a camera available. Until then, I'm afraid you'll have to take me on my word ^_~

Well...looks like I've just been "commissioned" to make a baby blanket for Kayden (Bethany's baby). I've got a while to make it, since she's only about halfway through the pregnancy and all, but still. And it's not like I wasn't going to make one anyway. It was a bit funny though. Beth and Danny were over for dinner tonight and one of the first things they ask is if I would please make a blanket with the baby's name in it. And then we got down to specifics. Danny said that he'd seen me knit and stuff and he liked my work and thought I could actually make something that was quality. So I would be the only one he'd ever ask something like that of. His Grandma knits too, but doesn't do very good work, though he'd never tell her that (his words, I swear!) *chuckles*. I feel flattered ^_^
So yeah, another thing on my to do list ^_^

I tried starting on my sleeveless top today, I got as far as casting on the correct amount of stitches, and then I read the pattern again for the next step. Mind you, I'd read the thing several times already at that point. But this time I notice that I'm supposed to cast on on the smaller needles *sigh*. Yes, you guessed it, I had used the larger ones. *headdesk* So I frogged it and put it away. The smaller needles have a potholder on it, so that needs to be finished before I can start. Oh well, I'm getting closer ^_~ At least I now have help, thanks to brightshadowsky! I'm probably going to try and finish the potholder tomorrow. I'm in no hurry to finish the shawl Josh requested, though I will have it finished by Sunday, I think (if everything goes the way I want them to, that is).

Yeah, I'm busy lol. But I'm alo loving it! I really appreciate that they asked me to make that though ^_^ Especially how they did it. I don't like it being done in a demanding way, which has been known to happen by other people (no, not related to the PSM, this is family I'm talking about). I'm itching to get started. We agreed that we'd all go and shop for the yarn, so they could pick the exact color. Blue and white leaves a lot of room still ^_~