I had mentioned to a Sunday School friend that I would like to learn to knit. She said the prayer shawl people get together on Tuesday afternoons and knit and talk from 2 to 4 p.m. If I would come to that she would teach me the basics. About a week later, another friend in the UMW asked anyone who was willing to join the prayer shawl group and said they would teach anyone who was willing how to do basic knitting.
Tuesday, 2/22, I went to the knitting group. My Sunday School friend did the "casting on" and taught me how to continue with the knitting. I am not sure I quite have the hang of it yet but I felt I made good progress with it. I can see how this could be relaxing since I am not trying to do anything fancy - just knit a rectangle 60 stitches wide and 60 inches long. Some members of the group do fancier stuff but they have been knitting a while. Others are doing exactly as I am and just doing a plain knit shawl.
I loved some of the colors they were using for yarn. Before the session, Don and I went to two places in order for me to find size 13 knitting needles and some yarn (3 skeins). That was a little confusing as yarns come in all weights and the skeins seem to have a variety of yarn lengths. I bought 4 skeins just in case since I knew I probably couldn't match the dye lot for the yarn later if I waited to come back to get more. One person said I should go to someone's house for a lesson prior to going to the knitting group and another person said that was not necessary. One person told me the yarn was provided by the church and another said everyone provides their own yarn. I decided to get my own since if I mess it up, at least I own it from the beginning. Who knows, maybe I am knitting my own prayer shawl! I hope not as I want it to go for a good cause. I understand one of our ministers blesses the shawls as they get several finished. People can get the shawls by going to a place where they are kept and signing one out and telling who they were for and something of the problem that person has. They are in pretty big demand, I understand. I told my friend from Sunday School I could see why since our class alone could keep this whole group busy for quite a while.
All in all, I enjoyed the whole process and look forward to future sessions. Already want to try one of a different color as the colors people had varied so much and all were so beautiful. A couple of people had finished one and were ready to put labels on them. This identifies the church the shawl came from and is sewn in when the shawl is finished.
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2011.02.11 Things Come Together
Friday, 2/11/11 was such a great day.
Two weeks ago, I had three things stop working at one time. First came my Kindle. I opened it one day and the "joystick", one of the main buttons had split in two. The next day, I couldn't connect to the internet on my pc so we made a call to Time Warner who thought it would be a simple modem replacement. They came out the next day and said it was the outside cable itself that needed replacement. The closest appointment for that would be two weeks since it is an outsourced service. I was told that was "squeezing" me in when they really didn't have time for it anyway. In other words, I should be grateful it would only be two weeks. No tv and no internet for two weeks!!!!!!!! Not a fun thought. I almost cried but decided it wasn't worth the stress to argue about it as it might only make matters worse. Then I dropped the camera I carry everywhere which is on permanent loan from DR. I felt awful about it. We sent the camera off for repair.
Yesterday got resolution - finally - to all three problems. The Kindle was replaced by Amazon within 24 hours. Great customer service. I don't think I have seen anything like it ever.
The camera was returned yesterday in the mail and it is fixed. I have only taken a couple of pictures so far but I can tell it is working just great.
As for the cable, we were told the repair person would call during the morning of 4/11 and that would let us know an approximate time they would come to re-do the cable. I figured it would be a day filled with waiting and frustration and being afraid to take any time away from the condo. I also feared they would pull the cable but then we'd have to get a second person out to hook everything back up and get it working. PC's don't really like to be disconnected a long time so I was also thinking I should be prepared for days of Norton and Windows updates. But the repair guy called at 7:30 a.m., was here by 8 a.m. and had the cable pulled before 9 a.m. On top of that, everything worked at first boot-up. It took the tv longer than the pc to come on with channels programmed back in . The pc had some updating to do but did it smoothly without my help really. There was only one guy who came but he was quick and knowledgeable and also assured me he wouldn't assume all was well until I told him so. He wound up calling later in the day to be sure I was satisfied. I wound up being impressed with the actual live person. Don even called his company and gave him a great review which seemed to please the person on the line greatly.
Then Don and I went to a class that ran from noon to four. We had figured to miss it but didn't have to. When that was over, we went out to Steve's Fish Camp in Fort Mill, SC to eat. We had a really great time all day.
Some days everything just comes together and that's what they did yesterday, 2/11/11.
Two weeks ago, I had three things stop working at one time. First came my Kindle. I opened it one day and the "joystick", one of the main buttons had split in two. The next day, I couldn't connect to the internet on my pc so we made a call to Time Warner who thought it would be a simple modem replacement. They came out the next day and said it was the outside cable itself that needed replacement. The closest appointment for that would be two weeks since it is an outsourced service. I was told that was "squeezing" me in when they really didn't have time for it anyway. In other words, I should be grateful it would only be two weeks. No tv and no internet for two weeks!!!!!!!! Not a fun thought. I almost cried but decided it wasn't worth the stress to argue about it as it might only make matters worse. Then I dropped the camera I carry everywhere which is on permanent loan from DR. I felt awful about it. We sent the camera off for repair.
Yesterday got resolution - finally - to all three problems. The Kindle was replaced by Amazon within 24 hours. Great customer service. I don't think I have seen anything like it ever.
The camera was returned yesterday in the mail and it is fixed. I have only taken a couple of pictures so far but I can tell it is working just great.
As for the cable, we were told the repair person would call during the morning of 4/11 and that would let us know an approximate time they would come to re-do the cable. I figured it would be a day filled with waiting and frustration and being afraid to take any time away from the condo. I also feared they would pull the cable but then we'd have to get a second person out to hook everything back up and get it working. PC's don't really like to be disconnected a long time so I was also thinking I should be prepared for days of Norton and Windows updates. But the repair guy called at 7:30 a.m., was here by 8 a.m. and had the cable pulled before 9 a.m. On top of that, everything worked at first boot-up. It took the tv longer than the pc to come on with channels programmed back in . The pc had some updating to do but did it smoothly without my help really. There was only one guy who came but he was quick and knowledgeable and also assured me he wouldn't assume all was well until I told him so. He wound up calling later in the day to be sure I was satisfied. I wound up being impressed with the actual live person. Don even called his company and gave him a great review which seemed to please the person on the line greatly.
Then Don and I went to a class that ran from noon to four. We had figured to miss it but didn't have to. When that was over, we went out to Steve's Fish Camp in Fort Mill, SC to eat. We had a really great time all day.
Some days everything just comes together and that's what they did yesterday, 2/11/11.
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