Cautious Optimism

There's ebb and flow, knit and rip, up and down, back and forth, good times and bad.... 

For my little red knitting project, I ripped and started over. I should have known better than to knit on an i-cord edging and expect it to stretch to the same length of regular knitting. What was I thinking? So I moved on to plan B with a seed stitch edging.

However, the real brain-consuming event of the last 24 hours is that we have a buyer for our old house (it's been on the market for an agonizing 7.5 months). We accepted an offer yesterday, so now we are praying hard that the buyer's loan goes through (and they were pre-approved), but with today's financial and mortgage mess, we are still a little afraid to breathe easy, but we are cautiously optimistic. The really odd thing about this is that the same buyer bought a house that we sold back in 2000. Do you think they are stalking us?  I will be glad to get rid of the stress of paying 2 mortgages. 

If this all goes through, I might celebrate by joining a group of knitters for the central Kansas Yarn Hop Oct 24-25th. You get a "passport" and visit 8 shops all over the place, Abilene, Wichita, Newton, Salina, Hutch..., even Minneapolis, KS! A lot of fun and a lot of yarn! Maybe even an overnight stop somewhere.

I am hoping that, between everything else today, I can get my knitting back to where it was before I ripped it out. That might be a lofty goal!