New project

I'm putting aside the cross-stitching for now. I need the magnifier/light combo, but it ends up making the frame too heavy and unwieldy. I know what I need, but I can't find it. I don't want one of those clamp-type lap frames. I want an easel sort of thing, with a shelf to prop the frame on, but all open in the back so I can access both sides. And everything being adjustable. I wish I could do carpentry.

So, for the time being I'm going to put it aside and go back to knitting. I've got some yarn left over from a baby afghan I made for a friend's daughter. It's the color "1323", in the last row on the page with the yarn. Baby colors. :) It's very soft and it's also machine washable and dryable. I wasn't sure that I would have enough for a good-sized afghan, though, so I'm pairing it with some off-white Dazzleaire that I got from ebay. (Dazzleaire was discontinued years ago, but it's really nice -- soft and also machine wash and dry.)

I'm going to use a free pattern I found on the 'net, that is a variation on the old feather and fan pattern. I like it because it starts in the middle and works outward, resulting in a square blanket. It's great to use that sort of pattern when you don't know exactly how your yarn is going to work out. I've made some that were intended to be wide, but then ran out of yarn before it was long enough, making the width longer than the length. Majorly weird.

This will go to a site a found last night called Miracles Happen which sends out items to young mothers in crisis. I liked the site because it's not associated with any religious group and she specifically says that she's not going to talk about the politics of choice. I like that. At the point when a baby is born, choice is rather a moot point. I tried to find a crisis pregnancy center locally to take something like this, but all of them that I could find were run by religious groups and did talk about their political opinions. I'm going to let her make the decision as to where it will go. It also lets me have a little distance emotionally, which is something that I need.

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ION, a while back, Steph had a post about misheard lyrics. As I've been listening to Pandora, I remembered a couple from my past.

Dan Fogelberg's "Part of the Plan"
Correct lyric: "Someday we'll all understand" (emphasis on the "der" in understand)
What I thought: "Sunday will fall on Thursday" (Why or how this would happen never made any sense to me, but I thought it must be something very deep and poetical.)

The other one isn't actually a mishearing, but a misunderstanding of what the lyric meant.
George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"
Lyric: "Keep me free from birth"
Correct meaning: "Give me freedom, starting at the moment I was born"
My interpretation, when I thought I might be pregnant and hoping I wasn't: "Keep me free from being in the position to give birth"