SP10 Challenge

Ok, this may prove to be a tad embarrassing...lol! My SP 10 Hostess, Robyn, has issued us another challenge/contest! She has these periodically and they are such fun and so interesting! This time the subject of the post is to be about our oldest yarn/project. And boy is mine OLD!!

I learned to knit when I was around 11 or 12 to earn a Girl Scout Needlework badge! I can still remember walking to this little old lady's house (at least she seemed old to me at the time :-), every Saturday for my knitting lesson. I have knitted off and on since then. For years I would interchange my crafts. I'd knit for a while, put it down, cross-stitch a while, put it down, quilt, do miniatures/doll houses, go back to knitting, etc. I even got into oil painting for several years and taught kid's oil painting classes. Sometimes it would be a few years before I did a lot of knitting again.

I guess it was about 6 years ago that I picked up the needles again and haven't put them down since! Anyway....back to the oldest project!! I started this project for my older daughter, Melissa, when she was in high school. She just turned 32!!! Soooo I guess that makes this about 14-15 or so years old!! After digging it out and looking at it...I honestly can't remember why I didn't finish it! It was working up really nice and I was so close to having it done!

It is a pattern from Pingouin summer 93 booklet. The price on the book is $6.95....my how things change...lol! I was doing it in Katia Papiro, a 53% cotton, 47% linen blend. I wish there were a price still on the yarn...now that would be interesting, wouldn't it? Maybe, now that it's been brought back to my attention, I'll jump in and finish it this summer...who knows!

Got my second SP10 box to the post office yesterday. I just love doing this and thinking up surprises for my pal! I hope she likes this box of goodies as much as she seemed to like the first one! It's hard not to talk more about it since I'm having so much fun, but she is a real sleuth....and I don't want to be figured out before the reveal so I had better hush!!!

Hope everyone enjoys this beautiful day! I'm starting to get the urge to go outside and dig in the dirt! It's funny how that is such a balm for my soul!! I have found that it is the perfect thing to lift my spirits and give me peace when something has happened to hurt or upset me...especially when it was unprovoked.

I'll end the post with something I read last night. DH and I have a nightly routine. I get a publication call Daily Bread and we read the day's devotional every night in bed together before we go to sleep. The day's scripture was Luke 6:41-45. Part of the analogy was this - "Being able to see other people's faults easily without ever noticing my own is not just an indication of hypocrisy. It can be a wake-up call that the problem in a struggling relationship may be me. Perhaps it's my attitude that needs to change. Or I'm the one who needs to apologize. Maybe I'm the person who needs a humble spirit. It's a lesson some of us have to learn over and over. We can't change others, but the God's help we can change our own behavior. When our attitude changes, it may seem as if others have changed as well."