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Knitting tragedy

By on July 3, 2013 in Friends, Knits and Crochet

Saturday was a most wonderful day with farming friends.  The kind of day that stays with me for a while.  Whenever Nate and Charlei come over to spend a day there is lots to eat, share and knit.  The men folk and boys spent time drinking some homemade brew while hours of card playing occurred.  At some point even the little ones learned how to play some card games.

We women baked challah, made some farmers cheese, cooked an abundance of great food and spent lots of time out in the garden.  As the day stretched into the evening we sat down to do some knitting.  Chatting by the piano, I remembered Matthew’s Peurperium sweater which was still sitting in the basket under the coffee table (since May), waiting for me to attach buttons to.

here is a picture of the almost finished sweater taken in May (just needing buttons to be done)
I pulled it out of the basket to show my friend when I felt my finger go right through the sleeve.  Not only that but the more I pulled out of the sweater the more apparent it became that all was not right here. That was when I remembered that our bunny Lola had been hanging out under the coffee table that morning.  My heart sank!

Because I was not alone and could not give into the luxury of screaming and crying over what I was holding in my hands, I just sat there quietly, with my head hanging low.  I would have eventually cried if Charlei had not said “I would say sorry but I didn’t eat the sweater”.  I looked at her and could not hold in the laugh which came out in such a way that I could not continue my sorrow over the nibbled sweater.

She also reminded me that Matthew would not need the sweater for about another 5 months and she was of course right though I was bummed because for once I was way ahead of the game with Matthews sweater completely way before I needed it done.  I studied it and there was so much damage to so many parts that repairing the sweater was not a possibility.  After frogging it, there is just not enough usable yarn to remake the sweater so I will have to make him another from a different yarn.  This yarn is my absolute favorite yarn but I will need a smaller project to reuse it.

I will leave you now with  picture of my little sweetie (enjoying his first foods) as he is in summer, nothin but a diaper necessary.  There is time to make another sweater and I will remember to put Lola away in her hutch when she is not being supervised. (Note to self:  If I had put the buttons on and hung the sweater up, none of this would have happened).

Knitting along with Ginny today.  See you tomorrow!

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Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

By on January 9, 2012 in Friends

 

 

Goodness,  it has been a week again since I have blogged…I have a good excuse.  Poppa is here 24/7 now since he is looking for a new job and he is keeping me so busy. Did I ever tell you that he is a super clean freak?  Yeah, I am not!  We have been cleaning this house night and day…or at least it seems like it to me and I have had almost no time to do anything else but I have snuck in some evenings to get some knitting done (I will post what I have been working on tomorrow) and of course I have had a few stash bashing projects going (join me Thursday for the Stash Bash).  We also had to buy a new computer which is kind of like buying a car…no fun!  We did buy a new one but I think I am taking it back because it is slow even though it is supposed to a great computer.  NOT!
Anyhoo, onto what I wanted to share with you.
My husband has an ability to forge friendships that last.  I can’t think of a single person whom I went to school with (with the exception of my cousins) that I am still friends with.  When I married my husband, he came with a handful of friends who have until this day remained a very intimate part of our family.  They are sometimes closer to us than our real family is (barring our parents who are irreplaceable)…they are the family we chose for ourselves.

One of those friends is Uncle Ron.  He has been friends with Poppa since their first day of military.  They actually met at the airport on the way to boot camp!  Uncle Ron is Veronica’s Godfather, he is the reason we named her that and the reason her nickname is Ronnie.  Our kids love Ron and his wife and since they had kids our children now have extra cousins.  Get togethers are always fun so we were so excited when they invited us to spend New Years day with them.  We packed up the van and traveled a quick 3 hours to be there.  Coincidentally, Uncle Ron’s is one of the few places we will let the kids sleep over (we decided when we started having babies that sleep overs were not going to happen, we are protective of our children and unapologetic about it) and when we announced that the boys could stay the night, they were jubilant.

Good friends, friends with whom you can just laugh and not worry about what they may or may not be thinking of you, are what makes life sweet.  We were only able to spend one day (which is hard to do because we are all so busy and we know it may be a while until we see each other again) but are already looking forward to get together again sooner than later.  It was a wonderful way to start a new year.

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