Ode to Maple Bark Scarf

I made my first sale! I'm so excited. I woke up this morning with a million things on my to do list, and then my first to-do involved the computer, I checked my email and TAH-DAH! first sale!

i'm like professional now...

and yesterday, while my big sunday dinner was cooking, I finished the scarf and took the pictures. And last night, after dinner, when I was so full, I posted it and within 40 minutes it had already been looked at 7 times! And then, to my surprise and elation, I awoke this morning, the 5th day of the new year, a professional knitter.

so once i found that out I did two things, ate breakfast and took care of the baby while I put together the rest of my site. I'm so thankful for having the opportunity to write ALL the original FAQs for www.myschoolbookstore.com, my old job. My only job, really.

And I sit mystified.

In other knitting news I tried a pattern for the first time last night. my head hurt, kinda a lot, and the book kept saying these are simple patterns so that you can have nicely knitting backgrounds on which to paint your knitting masterpiece. They say Picasso, I think it's him, could free hand draw a perfect circle. well, mine are ovals and the two ends don't meet. and that is evident in my recent dance with the pattern.

oh i love knitting. two sticks, some string, and endless possiblities. I think I could live my whole life and never get bored of knitting. and if the craft remains as ming bendingly complex as last night, well, I also wont be senile demensia. or however you spell it.