Handling Setbacks
Sunday the 1st provided a vehicle scare in which the “check engine” light would not go away. Knowing that I had to travel about an hour from home to meet up with a dear friend for her 44th birthday and to do my volunteer work at Virginia Rabbit Rescue, I turned around for home so that BFF could drive me in his car — I have not driven standard in almost 15 years. Already running late on schedule, BFF cleaned up the interior of all his tools from his car and installed the car seat he had been meaning to do. These incidents offered a silver lining: BFF’s parents were able to spend some time with SlytherBun on Saturday, our friend was able to see all 3 of us on Sunday, and we finally figured out who bought the cherry blossom tree wall decal off our registry (it was in the car seat’s box). However a muddy ball had started rolling downhill and we are still trying to clean up its mess.
Because of the past two weekends, finishing the thank you notes has been seldom, but they are slowly getting done. With little time to knit or crochet, I did manage to begin a jacket that I am converting from a pattern in Rowan 54. The pullover “Angela” begins at the neck and is knit in the round until the bottom yoke is finished, then each of the four sides (left sleeve, front, right sleeve, and back) are worked individually then are seamed. Not only am I converting this pattern into a seamless jacket, but I am adding a hood to keep my head warm during the colder months.

So here we are over two weeks late on my picking names for the “Scarves, Shrugs and Shawls” book by Sarah Hatton and for the “Boyfriend Sweaters” book by Bruce Weinstein. I decided beforehand that whatever names appeared in the 8th and 22nd slots would win the books. After I tallied up the 36 names and submitted them to the List Randomizer on the Random.org website, here are the names that popped up for 8 and 22: Cindy Jacobs and John Blue… Congratulations! I will be contacting them both tonight on their winnings. If you did not win, please do not fret. In my next post I will be writing about another pair of books that will be up for grabs. =:8