A First Birthday!

Tickets on the third level, row 25 (they don’t go any higher than that)…$40

A Rockie Dog, and coke in a commemorative cup (left behind)… $10.50

Seeing the home opener of the National League Champions with Grandbebe Girl (and Bebe’s Parents) on her first birthday…priceless!

On a side note, I took the knitting. The thought was to finish up the Forest Canopy Shawl. I was so stoked! I had weighed my remaining yarn and determined that it was time to start the last 10 rows, which are eight ‘finishing up’ rows and two ‘cast off’ rows. As I knit away on Thursday evening, I saw the yarn going, and decided to not leave anything to chance. I cut the finishing up rows to six. I was set! I was going to be able to finish this thing at the game. We were at the game early, and I started on it, right after I ate my obligatory Rockie Dog (onions, relish, mustard, and ketchup…I am a purist). Our seats were way up high, the highest actually. Grandbebe Girl’s Daddy said he didn’t have to pay any extra for the great view, but I digress. It was a warmish day, but where we were, there was a distinct breeze. When asked, I said I was a row and a half from finishing this thing, then I was wearing it!

Well, the last row, the final cast off row, which is a wonderful loose cast off, really is a doubly knit row, I figured out, and gobbles the yardage. I was three quarters of the way done….yes, within one quarter of the end of the row, and completing the shawl…and had 3 inches of yarn left. I did not take a picture. There were too many other things going through my mind at the time to think of saving the moment for posterity. Youngest Daughter asked what my choices were. Buying another $10 skein for want of 5 yards? Pleading my case on Ravelry in hopes some fellow knitter had some loose bits and pieces laying around that matched? Frogging back…oh the pain! I ended up frogging back last night, and it’s on the needles and ready to go wherever it is going to go.

It is good that I was able to see the wonderful way it will finish up, and was getting very excited about the possibilities of what the FO was going to look like after blocking. I have not yet lost the love for it. My Forest Canopy has been a grand learning experience of persevering when knitting has not gone smoothly.