Tuesday not to shabby....

Work was better organized minus people forgetting things from 3mos ago. Sighs. Though it is kinda disconcerting when you entire day can be summed up in 3 powerpoint slides that don't have a lot on them. Eh...I'll cope. Every line on them took hours to put together from the data pulls so eh. Got home and I heat packed my knee and took a nap. I was tired. Mel was making dinner. He cleaned out the fridge and I got the last of the chicken off of the carcass for my dinner. Nummy chx salad. Then I got my stuff out and worked on the new and improved afghan. I got the first row done and still had issues...when doing the second row after i got back from Ari's I figured out I added and additional part of the pattern in...ooops. But its gonna be nice and big now. My hands are telling me to not do so much crochet right now so I will do the third row today and then pick up something else. I plan on hitting grandma's for the "knit in" before class, have class and then go take care of the animals at ari's and come home. By that point the boys should be done cooking in the kitchen...we shall see.

Mel's little cherry pies turned out really good and he cleaned up the kitchen afterwards which made me happy.

The knee is still tight but I think better. I did dig into it a lot yesterday and heat it so I'm thinking today will be more of the same, some ibuprofen to get the swelling down and some kung fu. I won't jump too much, but I also want to see what I can do...its time to stop being scared and just push on through. Looking very forward to tomorrow which will be my friday and I can relax into my weekend of crafts, bad tv and crafts with hopefully a bit of biking thrown in and sleeping a lot...that will also be nice.

Episode 2: The Afgan RETURNS!

So, I did end up making it 166 chains wide. I also paid special attention to make sure my chain was loose. When doing the first row I miss did part of the pattern which if you remember is a 3dc-ch-3dc, skip 3ch, 1dc in the next 2 ch repeat. I put an extra 1 dc in the next 2 ch in and well, that made the end have 4 extra stitches. So I just SC into the last ch and that made the corner nice and round and made the transition into the row two a bit weird but it works. As ari was saying...its a guideline for a pattern...most folks won't be able to see the issue. Seriously.

I'm very happy with the size though and it will be very nice. But I need to limit myself to one row per night otherwise I'm going to aggravate my old tendinitis. I'm going to do mostly embroidery and hopefully some calligraphy this weekend. It shall be good.