Success at Last

yesssssss...the 2nd afghan square for Laurie's grandma (or another resident of her nursing home) is done! After so many do-overs, I didn't even cut the yarn when I was finished. It didn't require much blocking...just a bit of tidying up from being squashed in my bag but still...I had this fear that when I took out the pins it would scrunch up into a 4x4. I even think I have an envelope, but still need to write a note to go with it. Oh, and find the address. Whew. I had no idea it would take up this much time but I learned more about my knitting.

1. I learned that I need to cast on with a needle that's a little bigger than the needle I'll use to knit the project. At least on an afghan square. I know I cast on tight so I normally cast on using two needles stacked together. But for some reason here, the cast on edge tended to be enough tighter that it pulled the sides in a bit.
2. I learned that if you must knit and watch The Unit at the same time, it's best to use somewhat blunt ended needles, otherwise something will blow up and you'll stab yourself. Blunter needles still hurt but you won't bleed on the project.
3. I learned that you can frog Cascade 220 a bazillion times and it will still look like yarn. just sayin'

I've learned something else. The Dallas 'Sortation Center' works very slowly. I have an order from Knitpicks in transit. It's been in transit since the 4th. And the majority of those days, it's been in Dallas. Geez. I should have just driven down and picked it up. It left there yesterday and hopefully it's made the Oklahoma state line by now! Maybe tonight I'll have new needles and some color cards to play with ::::crossing fingers:::::

Oh, and hey, it's 41 degrees outside! How cool is that? (pun intended). Will warm up later into the 70s but still. And tomorrow it's supposed to be colder..with a wind chill even. I have to go to the store tonight and shall get some potatoes and make a nice steaming bowl of soup for supper then.

Life is good!