Add into this situation the bad news I got this morning. My grandmother on my dad's side passed away today. She was very old and lived a very full life. Although she had been failing and bedridden for quite awhile she was always very much the matriarch of that side of my family. It's just a sad, sad thing and unfortunately no matter how well you prepare for it, it doesn't make it any easier when it happens.
So I'm trying to keep a handle on things, doing what I need to do, which is a lot of stuff I really don't feel like doing at all. Which is something that seems to make me feel more crappy. So I take a minute to sit down and try to do some knitting and relax and somehow I end up with this

Umm, yeah that's not making me feel much better either. This is a kit I have for a purse that I purchased at Stitches last year. I'd love to link to the company but I can't find anything about them online so I wonder if they're even around anymore. I zipped through the front and sides in no time earlier in the week, and now I just have to do this one last part, but the colorwork is tough. And it's making me curse. And sweat. And I don't really need the agita right now. So I'm going to put down the knitting for today and maybe when I come back to this it will somehow cease to look to me like the knitting equivalent of a car wreck.
Oh. Well.
Sorry for the whine all, hope your Saturday's are treating you better.
5 comments:
Eh, whine all you want. You're entitled.
I'm sorry to hear about your abuela. Hang in there Jana.
Jana I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. Even when it's not a surprise it's still just as painful to lose a loved one.
As for your knitting, I think it looks great. What's the problem? It looks tough, but everything looks correct. For now, just knit a dishcloth, a nice simple quickly completed dishcloth.
I am sorry things aren't going well. I think the colorwork looks nice myself.
I had a crappy Saturday too. Had to wake up at 6 to go in to work from 8:15-2:30, then onto a stamping party (OK that part was fun) from 3-6, then off to teach a music lesson, only to have the train break down on the way home, and rather than a 45 minute commute, it was 90 mins, so I didn't get home till 9:30 tonight. :P
So sorry about your job and especially your grandmother. She sounds like a very dynamic woman.
Your knitting looks alright to me. Very cute.
Take care. I'll say a prayer for you.
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