You Just Never Know

 Yesterday, after morning perk-up on the house, 

I didn't feel like doing any work on that quilt 

so I organized my threads (ha!) for a new pillow cover!

It is almost the end of August and I haven't made the pillow-for-the month yet!

Almost everything went wrong from the start! 

 For example, my computer decided that it didn't like my thumb drive; 

 I had 'errors on the driver' that needed repairing-so I 'fixed' them.

Then I could read all of the patterns on the thumb drive when I plugged it into my sewing machine except for the one I needed!

The design I spent an hour changing the colors around to match what thread I had on hand.

I finally figured out how to back door fool it into taking the design and began stitching.

 In between arguments with the program, I decided to knit up a new sweater for granddaughter #3

who needs a new sweatshirt style sweater because she outgrew the one I made her at Christmas.

This is a worsted weight yarn by Yarn Bee. 

 (I love their baby yarn and discovered this cake in the right colors!)

I measured it with the gauge ruler and by counting and happily came out exactly the same both ways.

A good beginning.

I happily knit the back and when I took it off the machine, 

I had that funny feeling that it was too short.

I switched to the knitting the sleeve since I had enough yardage to knit a front/sleeve from one cake and back/sleeve from the other-this way they would all be a close match.

Sure enough, that sleeve looked short, too.

When I scoured the pattern I found that I had changed the gauge info on the pattern for the new yarn but hadn't increased the SIZE of the sweater.

It's all ripped out to try again today.

Some days.... 

When coming out of church last night, there was a beautiful flash in this cloud!

I tried for several minutes while sitting in the car to capture the pretty flash but I missed every time.

I'm looking forward to a new day--Bill starts it out by getting rid of his elbow stitches!

The home aide nurse will take them out so we don't have to go to the doctor's office;  

that's a good thing.

He spent yesterday working on our generator in case this hurricane really is as bad as the Weather Station says--if the run on the grocery stores is any indication, it is the end of the world.

Just so you understand!