Background
We had a nice cordless phone. It would last nearly a week off the base before needing to recharge. While dh was in hospital I had left the phone on the base. This, as some of you will know, reprogramed the rechargable batteries. The phone thought that if it was off of the base it needed to recharge. So you might make it threw a conversation, or the phone might start beeping and going dead after just a couple of minutes.
Friday, during a very important filing for benefits for dh phone call, the phone went clean smooth dead after just one minute off of the base! DH went off the wall, so to speak, and I became a controled basket case. The appointment was reset for the next day.
I called my mom and said it was an emergency, we had to have a new phone that night for the appointment phone call the next morning. Mom, since this took place at about the time she got off of work, got us a phone and brought it right over. She then insisted on taking me to Walmart. She wanted to get help us further by getting us a few groceries. I said that a couple of loaves of bread was we needed. She said are you sure, and I said yes. There were snackage and luxery foods that would be nice to have, but the bread was all that was truely needed.
My mom is such a sweetie. She got us some luxery foods and snackage food items to help ease the boredom of foodstamp end of month eating. She asked if her helping us out like this would make me feel bad, long histery/story with this, and I said no. That I had a whole stack of red and white dish/wash cloths made for, and she would now be subjected to whole bunch of cloths in a bunch of differant colors. She said that she wouldn’t need/use any but the red and white ones, but she realy wanted were some more red doilies. She even bought the no.10 bedspread weight cotton for me to make them.
Saturday I tried several times to start a crochet doily. Tried and frogged, and tried and frogged many times. Nothing seemed right. Not right looking, not right pattern, me not in right mood. What I wanted to do was knit. So yesturday I was looking at my size 5 (us) addi straight needles and the cotton, and it hit me. The bedspread weight cotton was approximately the diameter of lace weight yarns, many lace patterns that I have on my “To-Do” list call for size 5 (us) needles, I’ll knit my own design! I flipped threw my “365 Knitting Patterns a Year Calendar” {a million thanks again sp8 pal!} and decided on the “Lacey Diamonds” pattern on July 29th.
My KEMP for this month, well part of it, is 6 doilies for my mother. This one is the first, and it will be a table runner doily for the coffee table. The pattern is just involved enough to keep me interested, without being so complicated I want to commit homicide! Here’s the progress so far, less than 24 hours and I am around 1/3 of the way done!
There’s other stuff going on, but it’s too personal and to immediate for me to post about just now. Please continue to keep us in your prayers.
