reconsidering...

my hubby and i are going on vacation! well, a mini-break anyway. ron's parents are going up to the north shore over labor day weekend and we managed to find a hotel up there who not only had open rooms, but would let us book only one night (most had a 2 or 3 night stay minimum). yea! i'm so excited! i get my splint out on tuesday (2 more sleeps!) so i'll be able to eat while up there, chewing and all! i can't wait! i love the north shore and two harbors. i think i love it because i went up there when i was younger with my family, and now we have been going up with ron's family. i have many happy memories up there.

so i was thinking that it would be so awesome to have a FO that we could photograph up there. either at the split rock lighthouse or at gooseberry falls or wherever. i had a plan on how i would finish my weeping willow in time and it would be great. just 10 rows a night, easy. too bad that it is getting bigger and bigger and the last rows are a good 360+ stitches each. so... i realized that it's not looking like it is going to happen. i think to myself, hmm... i really want a FO to photograph up there!

and that is why i am working on my knockoff shawl that i started back before surgery. remember it?
from this blog entry?
pattern from stitchdiva

it's crocheted and it goes fast. at least it would if i could get past the first two rows. i have restarted this shawl now, i have no idea how many times. finally got the base row and next row to work the way it was supposed to and then i started row 3 and then i 'tried it on'. it was... big enough to fit my queen size bed. so i ripped again, took out a bunch of the base row and started again. i think it's finally the correct size and hopefully now i can get some rows behind me. i have just a few more days to finsh this, we leave saturday morning to go up north... can she do it? :) guess we'll see.