If you look over and read my brief little bio, you'll see I'm an Army wife. Well, with that comes difficult times in our lives that usually take the form of deployments. As our country has been at war for a long time, deployments these days usually take the people we love into either Iraq or Afghanistan. Unfortunately, it was our turn. Recently, we waved goodbye to Daddy as he went off to war. He's much loved and will be greatly missed. It is, of course, my job to take care of the kids and keep our home moving smooth while he's away. I pray for his safety every day and hope that he will return to us unharmed. With that in mind, I have to do something to keep myself sane! So, I came up with a challenge for myself, and my friend was crazy enough to join me. ;-)
My challenge is to create 12 lace shawls in a single year. I'll admit that I semi-cheated. :-) I had a shawl I was working on while he was home, but I put the last bind-off stitch in yesterday. It's not even blocked yet. So, I have decided that it counts as 1 of the 12. Hey! I have 3 boys to take care of. It counts. lol
What are the rules of my little challenge? Well, it 'should' be a shawl, though my friend wants to toss in scarves and things of that nature. As there's a shawl I want to do that is rather pretty, but will be a quick knit, we decided that around 400 yards of yarn qualifies. Besides, our list so far is daunting.
On our list is Evenstar, Galadriel's Mirror, Lothlorien Cape, and Crocus. To tell you the truth, if we can get those four finished in a year, we'll be doing good. lol
So, wish me luck! Here's to surviving a deployment and creating beautiful works of art at the same time.
