I can't believe it

Last Wednesday afternoon, I lost the main diamond in my wedding ring. I was at a store when I noticed it, so I immediately let them know so they could look for it, and I searched too. I searched my steps outside, call the chiro where I'd been two hours earlier, searched the house and the van. We even took all of the carseats out of the van, took off the covers and searched them. We'd given up and were thankful that it was insured. Last night, Luis found it! It was in the upstairs hall carpet, and as he came up the stairs, he was looking at something on the floor by the top of the stairs, and the glitter caught his eye. We can't believe it. All of that searching and still we could have just vacumed up a $2k diamond and tossed it out if the light hadn't hit it right last night.

I'm almost done with my second poncho. The pieces are knit, and today I hope to seam them and start on the fringe. Rosemary's Sweater is to the point now where I need to seperate for the sleeves and start the cable detail there. The next project I want to add to my WIP list is a simple short sleeve summer sweater for me in DK yarn.

I went to Madison yesterday, so I stopped by my favorite yarn store/coffee shop, The Sow's Ear. I love this place. The girls each get a cookie and eat it on the coffee shop half, then play with the toys there and I can shop in peace with Vincent in the sling. They love it and so do I. I was looking for the pattern for the aforementioned sweater. I had no idea that such a simple, classic sweater would be so hard to find! I searched through three pattern binders and five magazines. Then the owner finished up with someone else and started helping me. She searched through some files, then started in the pamphlets. We finally found it in a Jaeger pamphlet, a simple crewneck short sleeved sweater with a bit of ribbing on the hem of the sweater and sleeves, slightly shaped through the waist. I love at least three other sweaters in the pamphlet too, so I happily bought it. I can't wait to cast on!