Soccer--and swim and tennis and karate--practice for the older boys = more practice knitting for me. More cotton yarn, this time worked in the 'bamboo' stitch for another dish cloth.
And even though I have no business doing this, I've cast on for my first lace project. It's a free scarf pattern aptly named Branching Out.
I have learned it is neither suitable for mindless knitting nor to be done without a pencil and the pattern chart at hand. But I'm enjoying it nonetheless as I'm determined to learn how to read from a chart. I've reminded myself how 'smart' I am countless times as I've ripped and restarted many, many times due to mysteriously dropped stitches.
Once it's done, I have set my sights rather high on the very thing that motivated me to relearn and begin knitting again in the first place: the Shalom cardigan. My close friend, Jenn, is a very experienced and skilled knitter and she says she'll do a knit-a-long with me. There are so many blog posts about Shalom that even non-knitters have probably noticed it. I plan to do the soulemama version which has sleeves and an extra button. I am so excited!
Sandra