Day 3--Friends

I am so thankful for friends...the ones I've grown up with, the ones the have been through all sorts of seasons of my life with me, that have laughed and cried with me, that are loyal, faithful and true.

I think the best part of friendship is that they deepen as you grow. The way I made and kept friends changed in college but then I've only learned more about being a good friend in the years since.

I love taking pictures when we are together but sometimes, you can't capture the moment with simply a picture. It's sharing the memory together that binds you to one another.

The Bible says it well when it says...two are better than one...I believe we were created to be in friendship and relationships with one another. You might just have one or two close friends, you might be able to make friends with an entire room of people in just a night...it doesn't matter how many you have, it's that you have them, I think!

I was especially fortunate tonight to share margaritas and Mexican food with some new friends my mom and I made in our knitting class. Such a fun group of ladies. They've kept us laughing for the past month and a half. I will miss them over the holidays but hope we'll reunite in the advanced class next January. Our teacher got a group picture, I'll post it when she sends it out via email.

So my readers, is there a friend that you are specifically thankful for today?

Poor Pitiful Bobbles...

Well, the bobble project from my knitting class is quite possibly the ugliest thing I've made in a while...perhaps ever! LOL The project was supposed to be a "spa" soap bag that you can use as a soapy washcloth. Well, cotton yarn doesn't have any stretch so making the faux bobbles (which, the teacher realized, weren't really bobbles due to the technique we were using to make them) was...well...really a stretch! Instead continuing to make the faux bobbles after I had to rip out four rows to fix a faux bobble that had fallen apart, I just knitted the rest of the project. We then attempted a kitchener's seam to bind the bottom edge together without a visible seam. Yah, well, mine is visible alright! Sigh.


A lovely lady in my class made two, one in pink that she gave to me to donate to the knit for the cure. It is LOVELY! Oh my goodness. I'm so jealous...my attempt looks positively dismal next to it! Her's so beautifully done it inspires me to give the pattern another try...at some point. Maybe just not with cotton yarn. ;0)

Knitting Class #1--Cables

My grandma found an adult continuing education course on Intermediate Knitting skills and my mom and I decided to sign up. It's actually located at my mom's old jr. high! Thursday night was the first class and we learned how to do cables. With just some simple stitches done out of order (and twisted when knitted) and you get some funky 3-D action going on in your knits.

Now, I'm not going to go through the process of HOW to knit cables when there are SO many great blogs and YouTube videos devoted to the topic already. Try:http://www.knittinghelp.com/video/play/crossing-cables-with-a-cable-needle if you are REALLY curious. The video shows a different cable pattern then what we made in class. We made a "Honeycomb" pattern and the plan was to make a coffee cup "cozy." Well, I'd managed to move the size 6 needles to the wrong knitting project bag (you realize I have FOUR, right?) and only had size 8's with me. The bigger the needle, the bigger the stitch, the bigger the finished product. So I was a little worried I was going to end up with a Super Big Gulp cozy! We're going to finish it up in class next week (then move onto "bobbles," very cool) but I've posted a pic of it "in process." The flash is too bright but you can still make out raised "circles" in rows...a honeycomb pattern!

The class was really fun and super entertaining. I'm really looking forward to all I'm going to learn. I still am in my scarf knitting obsession though...all I can think of is that the pattern would look so cool in a fall color (warm muted orange-ish brown)...worn in a scarf! LOL Until next time...peace, love and yarn!