I am currently knitting a baby blanket for my friend, Courtney, from work. She is having a little girl, so I am sure this is not the first knitted creation she will be receiving from me! I was going to do a simple basketweave pattern, but that got boring very quickly. So I am now doing a lacy heart pattern that I got out of the Vogue Knitting Stitchionary 1. I don't know if this counts as a new creation of my own, since I am using a stitch from a book - but I'd like to think so!!!
I will have pictures when I am through. I started about three weeks ago.
Oh yeah, and it's PINK
The Famed Sweater!!!
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This is the sweater that I was slaving on for soooo long during our vacation and I even got help for short rows from a very nice lady named Nancy, who was with her knitting group at the Barnes & Noble in Orlando, FL and I interrupted with my knitting question. I was able to do the short rows with her help and this was the second version of my sweater.It was given to my mother as a Christmas present and she wears it all the time!! (Although I did learn my lesson about lot #s - in certain lights it looks like I used two different color yarns!) Oh well. I'm going to start knitting swatches to check my guage too......
Amazing Quote
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The young women in our church (myself included) are trying to start ministering and counseling our high school girls. I was on the website for the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and I came across this amazing quote from Elisabeth Eliot that I just had to share. This is what we should be telling our daughters about the virginity they have been given.
The gift of virginity, given to every one to offer back to God for His use, is a priceless and irreplaceable gift. It can be offered in the pure sacrifice of marriage, or it can be offered in the sacrifice of a life's celibacy. Does this sound just too, too high and holy? But think for a moment - because the virgin has never known a man, she is free to concern herself wholly with the Lord's affairs, as Paul said in I Corinthians 7, "and her aim in life is to make herself holy, in body and spirit." She keeps her heart as the Bride of Christ in a very special sense, and offers to the Heavenly Bridegroom alone all that she is and has. When she gives herself willingly to Him in love she has no need to justify herself to the world or to Christians who plague her with questions and suggestions. In a way not open to the married woman her daily "living sacrifice" is a powerful and humble witness, radiating love. I believe she may enter into the "mystery" more deeply than the rest of us. (Elisabeth Elliot, "Virginity," Elisabeth Elliot Newsletter, March/April 1990 [Ann Arbor: Servant Publications]: 2-3)
The gift of virginity, given to every one to offer back to God for His use, is a priceless and irreplaceable gift. It can be offered in the pure sacrifice of marriage, or it can be offered in the sacrifice of a life's celibacy. Does this sound just too, too high and holy? But think for a moment - because the virgin has never known a man, she is free to concern herself wholly with the Lord's affairs, as Paul said in I Corinthians 7, "and her aim in life is to make herself holy, in body and spirit." She keeps her heart as the Bride of Christ in a very special sense, and offers to the Heavenly Bridegroom alone all that she is and has. When she gives herself willingly to Him in love she has no need to justify herself to the world or to Christians who plague her with questions and suggestions. In a way not open to the married woman her daily "living sacrifice" is a powerful and humble witness, radiating love. I believe she may enter into the "mystery" more deeply than the rest of us. (Elisabeth Elliot, "Virginity," Elisabeth Elliot Newsletter, March/April 1990 [Ann Arbor: Servant Publications]: 2-3)
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