Thomas McHale

1967-2001
World Trade Center

I did not know you or any of the others who died on September 11. You went to work that day, just like me and every other American, but the terrorists chose your building to send their message.

You had a wife, good friends and co-workers, and an unborn son whom you never knew. But he, Collin Thomas, almost 5 years old now, will know you, and you will live on through him.

And those of us who did not lose anyone that day, shall remember.

it's working now.

I don't have dice blue finished, but I continue to work on it. It's given me more grief than I anticipated.

After seeing cece I had to buy the pattern. The only yarn I had that would work was Mary Maxim Mellowspun. If blogger's photo upload was working I would post a scan of what I have knit so far. In the meantime, I'm trying to decide what yarn I want to buy for my next cece.

I've narrowed the selection down to brown sheep cotton fleece, Elann's Peruvian collection silk or quechua. Elann has some affordable cotton, sonata and connemara, but I don't know if I would like knitting with it. Not having a local yarn store is really a pain in the neck.

Here are the first few rows of Dice Blue.
It's a very easy pattern to follow, any beginning lace knitter should be able to knit this shawl.

For experienced lace knitters it may be somewhat monotonous, though.

I've changed my knitting plans all ready. While perusing my Knitter's mags for a cable sweater, I came across dice blue, or in my case it will be dice midnight alpaca cloud from knitpicks . Of course, this is all dependent on whether once I start the scarf, I don't rip it out.

I can't believe I haven't posted since September! I can't believe I haven't knitted anything either! I've started numerous projects and ultimately tore them apart for one reason or another. I started fiber trends moebius scarf, but my needles were too short, as soon as I can get some 40" needles I'm going to start it again. Now that tax season has started I need a knitting project!