I’m pulling out the old quote from 9th grade math teacher, Miss Lahrman, the one she used when we gave excuses for not studying or doing homework. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.This one’s for you, Marina, it’s about your namesake. I made a vow not to start any major projects until I started again on Marina. I found four parts of the project in four different rooms – the pattern, the chart, the yarn and of course, Marina, herself.
Being at the steek cutting stage I hauled out my 30 year old sewing machine. They made them out of metal back then and they’re heavy. I wrangled the tangled mess of cords and plugged ‘er in. Positioned Marina into place and guess what? The needle was broken and no replacement on hand. Of course nobody in my house would fess up to breaking the needle, not after hearing my rant.
It gets worse, the next day I had all good intentions of buying some sewing machine needles, only to be foiled by a seven hour power outage. Now I’m into a three day spiral of evening activities – the school Christmas concert, a board meeting, and my Chicks With Sticks monthly meeting.
I hadn’t knit in four days, waiting to attack Marina. I swear I was going through physical withdrawal; all foggy feeling and irritable. Guess it’s time to start a scarf. Come on, it doesn’t count as major:
Life's a Stitch 
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