This was originally about Ashley Grace's baby blanket, but there's another thing going on right now that falls under the title 'a work in progress' too.
This baddest of bad-ass baby blankets is really coming along well:
The stitch that I'm using has a right side and a wrong side to it, much like a piece of printed fabric. In the photo the wrong side is facing the camera - the right side is much nicer to look at. Also, the colors don't show well; the lilac and periwinkle blue and turquoise are hard to differentiate. They're there, though, in all their technicolor glory. I'm really very happy with the way it's turning out, and as I've said before, I'm going to have a hard time parting with it because I like it so much! I've decided that I'm going to try and have one on the go all the time - if I can't find someone to give it to, I'll sell it either on eBay or at one of the consignment stores in town. I'm also going to try and make each blanket unique by only using color combinations once. I might use the same colors in another blanket, but their sequence will be different. I figure I have about 12 or so different colors of the same yarn that I can use - I can't even begin to think about how many combinations I can come up with without duplicating. There must be thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.
Last weekend I picked up a book called 'Simple Abundance; A Daybook Of Comfort And Joy'. I'd heard of it a few years ago and had been meaning to get it but always forgot about it. So, when I saw it on the shelf at the BX, I bought it.
I've read it each day this week, and I've actually started to apply it to my daily life. I've been able to visualize my 'authentic self'; the person I TRULY am, and I've been able to start to bring her to the forefront in small but significant ways. I'm a work in progress; she's a work in progress too. We're all works in progress if we're honest with ourselves, we're all learning and growing and developing - or at least, we should be. We should be changing until the day we die - and then we'll change again, but this time in a much more dramatic way; in a way that we as humans simply cannot comprehend. As the world constantly changes and our physical bodies are always changing, so our spiritual and authentic selves should always be changing and growing. It's when we stop growing that we run into problems.
I hope I never stop growing.