It has been a bad week and I hope the ugly karma has finally left the building.  It all started with a required corporate phone exchange. I thought I would be “hip” and “cool” and get something other than a blackberry….so. I selected something else, called rumour.  It had a bigger screen, flip out keyboard and it was the color blue. Got the phone and called our corporate call center to get the phone all set-up. Three days later was still waiting for a call back, had tried to do all the set-up on my and own and nothing was connecting.  Drove 40 miles to the nearest phone center for assistance. AND found out that the phone is just a phone and will not connect to corporate email, sync to my outlook, load up all 300+ of my contacts.  They would gladly exchange the phone for me for the full price of a new blackberry, plus $150 set-up fee.  Drove home without paying for their “exchange”.  Emailed corporate with the I am dying here please help me and finally got a response. New phone on its way….no additional charge.  Two days later got the new blackberry.  It will not set-up and connect. I have been on the line with customer support for two hours as they are walking me thru the hard set-up of my phone.

BUT!!!!!! it gets even better………During all the phone hysteria, I have been knitting a fingerless glove as I am a little behind on the Christmas gifts.  Made it to the thumb gusset and was ready to place the thumb stitches on stitch holder when I took a moment to try it on.   Thumb gusset was made on wrong needle and was sitting at the location of my index finger.  Rip, rip…………….Did I say it was time for a beverage with alcohol

It is a week of planes, trains and ferryboats for me. Yes, a little business travel from west coast to the east coast means a long plane ride. 4 1/2 hours east and 5 1/2 hours west. I find that knitting makes the time fly by , no pun intended 🙂

So what should I take along???  I have the rough draft of the Winter Wonderland Cowl printed out and this beautiful Noro Silk Garden.

That is definitely going along. But maybe I need a little something as a back-up. You can never have enough yarn in your suitcase right?  Think a pair of fingerless gloves. That should do it.

Anyone know of a really great yarn store in Washington DC?

In the corporate world, I have been called a “dragon lady”. Why?  Because I have no fear of moving forward, taking on change, trying new things, and pushing others to take a leap of faith with me.

The same is in me when it comes to knitting. I stayed away for many years because of the corporate thing. Now I have come back with the same “dragon lady” style. 

I have found I am a tailored kind of person who doesn’t like a lot of lace and ruffles and stuff. Patterns for this are hard to find so………I plan to lead you to that style of pattern.  Write some of my own patterns…….  And just share a bit of the “dragon lady” with you.  Enjoy!