Life's a Stitch

At my watercolour class the teacher told a story about his Dad, who asked him "If you had two wishes what would they be?" My instructor remembered his Dad’s wishes, " to always have a $20 bill in my pocket (it was probably the 1960’s) and to remember everything I’ve learned." How well off we would be if we could remember everything we learned.

Although Gracee isn’t the most intelligent dog, she does remember everything she’s learned. Each evening, in anticipation, she parks herself at the top of the steps about the time Chuck is due home from work. I’m not sure this is about memory or that a dog can smell her master from a great distance.

I’ve been on a roll recently teaching myself new things. I’ve been wanting to knit an Indian cross stitch scarf with Koigu. I saw a picture if it on the Keyboard Biologist’s blog. She has a link to a site for purchasing the pattern, but the link was a dead end. The designer had retired. I e-mailed the K.B. and she told me the pattern was free with the purchase of two balls of Koigu at another site. You can’t order online through this site, you have to e-mail and wait for a return call. It’s been a couple of months with no response so I got to work figuring it out myself. I found two versions of the Indian Cross Stitch pattern in materials I already own, one an encyclopedia of stitchwork that I’ve had since college days, the other is the current Vogue Knitting, where there is a scarf using the same stitch, but it appears to be knit widthwise instead of lengthwise.