an ordinarily extraordinary miracle at thanksgiving...

yesterday i awoke to an ordinary day,

by the time i went to bed it had become an ordinarily extraordinary day.

days like that are quite rare and ones that must be treasured

and looked back upon for many many moons to come.

quite truthfully, 

just the very fact my cast on knitted hat

was actually starting to resemble a hat

and not a flea bite in sight,

was something to take an ordinary day

to an extraordinary day.

but then an happening to out do any happenings

that have happened to me of late,

only went and happened.

i awoke on an ordinary friday morn

to learn that by the very same day

Our #2 would be home for thanksgiving!

our first to share in several years...

a most extraordinary thing

which truly is nothing sort of a small miracle.

yes a small miracle that has left me this morn,

 as i tippity tap this ramble

knowing she is under our roof again

for a whole live long week,

so very thankful for small miracles

of the most ordinarily extraordinary kind.

the best kind of miracles of all...

what a difference a day makes...

alas

alack,

darn

double darn

triple drat

and

quadruple pants

my 'knitty picking a purl like a pro' knee socks

are all baggy and saggy

Mr Doubter is creeping in

and my high hopes are seeping away

i have noted on close inspection

my seed stitching ways are lacking.

if one did not know better

one could easily be mistaken

for thinking a moth or two

had stopped by for a party

i am left pondering...

are the crochet gods talking to me

showing me i have faltered too far 

from the path of hooky righteousness and goodness

or are the knitting gods testing me

seeing if i am worthy of their knitty blessing.

am i strong enough to prevail

when the knitting times are rough

or will i weaken, will i falter

will i turn away

when the going gets tough

the knitty gods tell me

does not matter, 

they love me 

and my free form flea holed blanket 

in the making

and 

encourage me to continue upon my way

the crochet gods ask me

have i thought about a nice slouchy beanie hat?

something simple perhaps,

wasn't i just thinking i would like one

only the other day...

most suited to traveling during the holiday season.

they are tempting me, 

i am wise, 

i can see Mr Temptation has been giving them lessons.

i am thinking where would the harm be

in just taking a look,

just a ganders

no commitment

something to take my mind off 

my blanket of dubious seed stitching ways

and down the slippery slope i go

knitty knee socks and knitty soul

well and truly let down

a most marvelous book...

Lena Corwin's Made By Hand book is a marvelous one indeedy! 

i know this to be true as i have had a jolly good ganders at the pages and thus, deduced "that made by hand book is marvelous indeedy!"

how did i get to my marvelous thinking ways you may well ask, as there appears to be an abundance of crafty books out there and sometimes things can all blur together. well let me see...

1: marvelous projects in all different marvelous materials

2: marvelous pictures making one wish to learn the marvelous projects

3: marvelously written in a lesson format from quite a few marvelous crafty souls

and

4: a marvelous knitted blanket which stopped my marvelous yarn loving ways in their tracks

left unable to think of anything else but said marvelous knitted blanket, led me to know now was the time if ever there was a time i would have to conquer picking a purl stitch, for seed stitch was never an option for me where once i was a thrower. and so i did, with the help of terribly nice dearie on youtube. i must confess her way of picking is no longer my way as i prefer to use my right needle like a hook and keep my left needle, yarn and finger firmly planted and stationary. but no matter what, i care not, for where there is a will, there is always a way and now i like to think i can pick a purl like a pro and therefore i launched into my 'free form blanket' from the marvelous Made By Hand book with great gusto

now here is the thing, it does not exactly show you the step by step recipe for the blanket, it is truly up to you to go upon your merry way freeforming little squares and rectangles of seed stitched goodness. however i have already learnt how to extend a rectangle when changing colour and this has made me muchly happy and declare out loud to those that care to listen "how marvelous is that!"

so only time will tell, just how marvelous it truly is, for i have in my time crocheted an abundance of blankets but never ever never a knitted one... oh, that tis a lie! i did once, a long long time ago and quite a few moons, a patchwork affair but i am not going to count that because the tale doesn't sound so grand. i have however attempted many more knitted blankets that i never saw through to the end due to my attention span and their inability to grow quickly.

this time though, i have high hopes for i am a picker and not a thrower, and yes, despite several times having to rip back several rows due to glazing over and changing the order of my knit 1 purl 1, i am determined, like never before to have a blanket so marvelous in its knitty goodness, that not even a little critter will i share it with.

thus i deduce, Lena Corwin's Made By Hand is full of marvelous things to learn to make and does stand out from the crafty crowded book shelves in a most marvelous way!