Beginnings and Mistakes

Alright....

I obviously haven't actually used this blog since i started it, but i think now is a good time to start.

2008 seems to be a year for new beginnings for me. I have and am using a treadmill in my house, i have recently started playing the piano a bit, i have started a dvd collection so i have plenty to watch while i knit, i'm doing my Bible study every day, and i have started actually writing in this blog.

So... yay for beginnings.

Speaking of beginings, yesterday i picked up a knitting project that i have not worked on in months. it is the Doctor Bag from Knit2Together. i fell in love with this bag when i saw it, started it as soon as i could, and then about a foot into the back panel i put it down and it landed in my hibernation pond.

a couple of days ago however i found myself with absolutely nothing to knit until i get a set of size 2 dpns in the mail. so i went over to my hibernation pond picked the Doctor Bag back up and fell back in love with it.

Today i was out with my friends and we stopped in a starbucks. luckily i already had a jamba juice smoothie with me, so i didn't have to actually buy starbucks coffee. Anywho - i brought out my knitting while my friends were talking about horses (some big horse thing is coming up tomorrow) and began the decreases at the end of the back panel. i quickly realized i did not have the right number of stitches. ARRG!!!!

knowing that if i had to rip this whole piece out i would just give up on it entirely, i tried to figure out how i could fix it and still make it look decent. there are now a bunch of math figures on my pattern as i was trying to figure out if it was something wrong in the pattern or something i did wrong. at first i thought there was something wrong with the pattern, but later this evening i realized that it was knitter error. My first big knitting mistake of the year. yay.

A new beginning for me, however, would be that i managed to fix the mistake with a little bit of figuring and the bag will still look fine. WOOT.

Tomorrow I begin some of my regular activities and i can begin more frequent knitting in public, my favorite kind of knitting because then people look at me funny. At the moment i am trying to figure out if i will be able to knit in the dentists chair tomorrow so that i can keep my mind off the sharp things in my mouth while my teeth are cleaned.

Till Next Time,
Kathryn

P.S. other exciting news that absolutely does not relate to knitting - I'M GOING TO SEE SWEENY TODD ON STAGE THIS MONTH!!!!! me and my brother and a friend of his are going at the end of this month and i have been "squee"'ing all night.