Well, I've been right here, just not posting anything that I've been doing.
Why, you may ask? Hmmm, good question. It's not like I couldn't have taken the time to do so. I have been knitting like my backside was on fire, keeping six projects going at once.
That may be the reason.
My fingers have been tripping over the textures of yarn instead of typing on the keyboard. But it's a poor excuse and one I intend to rectify.
So, let's see what I've been up to since I last posted.
I told y'all about my precious sister, Carolyn being diagnosed with Acute Leukemia and that I made her a shawl to keep her warm while she was in the hospital.
I made her a few chemo caps out of the softest yarns I could find. This one is her favorite. :-)
Here are a few more....
Her bone marrow test still shows cancer cells after the last round of chemo. Her white blood cells are very low and she’s been plagued with fever and/or headaches daily.
Her doctors can’t give her anymore chemo. They were hoping that her white blood cells would come back up before sending her home, however, that didn’t happening either.
They gave her 2-4 weeks to live.
It is my pleasure to announce that she has passed that mile marker.
I talk to my sister every week, even though she is very tired, she is always interested in what is going on in my life and shares my joys as well as heartaches.
I called her last night to tell her about receiving a blue ribbon for the Crown Prince shawl I had entered in the Baldwin County Fair.
She said, "Susan, I thought you had already told me you had the blue ribbon."
"No", I replied, "I said I wanted the blue ribbon."
"Well I've been thinking all this time that you had already won."
"And that", I said without hesitation, "is the reason I received it, because it was already made real."
May I introduce to you, the Crown Prince from the book Knitted Lace of Estonia. My blue ribbon winner.
Took my lumps like a trooper too.
You can bet the lessons learned are ingrained and appreciated.
Wonder if I should tackle the Queen Susan Shawl? :-)
