Christmas

May you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! Christmas is a very busy time of the year with shopping and baking and...but we have to remember the true meaning of the holiday that it is a holy day and that Jesus our Savior was born on this day.

The afghans are almost finished. The fringes are a real job, it takes almost as long to do the fringe as it does to knit an afghan. Obviously, they will be late but next time I will remember how time consuming a fringe is.

I am going to set some New Year goals this week--one of them will be to write my blog at least twice a week and hopefully three times a week.

Merry Christmas

The Not-so-wonderful world of knitting

I have been making an afghan for a Christmas gift. After I finished the last panel--Panel No. 7 and laid out the rest of the afghan, I realized I had 2 left outside panels and no right outside panel. So now I am knitting frantically trying to finish the right panel in time to mail the afghan!!! When will I learn that knitting under pressure never works? The last time this happened, I was making a sweater for a gift and the back was longer than the fronts (Yes, I had planned to make the whole sweater 2 inches longer than the pattern stated, but forgot my plan halfway through). There must be a law somewhere that states that knitting is only to be done as a hobby or at your leisure otherwise it will not cooperate. Oh well, humility is a virtue and my knitting is often humiliating.