Amelia reached another milestone today on her daddy’s birthday, but alas, he didn’t get to see it. This morning when I went into her room to change her diaper and say good morning, I found her on her belly in her crib! Apparently she had rolled over from her back to her belly. This is the first time I’ve seen this happen. But we’ve been expecting it to happen since she likes to sleep on her side most nights. We knew it was only a matter of time before she rolled the rest of the way over to her belly. It was quite surprising and I would have been more excited about it, but her face was almost pushed into the crib bumper. She has a habit of turning in her sleep, and last night I had to straighten her back out several times after she had turned herself perpendicular to the length of the crib. So I guess she wiggled enough before rolling over to twist herself face first into the bumper.
But she has officially rolled over from back to belly. Woohoo!
Oh yeah…Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband and the best father my daughter could ever want…she really has become a full-fledged daddy’s girl.
I got all the way across my row, worked the next row, then got half way across again and realized something wasn’t right. Once I work the lace, I have 17 stitches on the needle. Somehow I messed up and had less stitches than I should making it impossible to proceed. That’s what I get for not paying attention to what I was doing when I began my lace work. I was doing the bitchin’ part of my stitch n’ bitch. LOL! So I ended up having to frog about 4 rows back to the last row before my lace pattern begins. What a pain! This is the first time I’ve ever frogged multiple stitches/rows at one time. I usually go back one stitch at a time, so I don’t have to worry about dropped stitches, but that would have sucked! So I used some scrap yarn and a yarn needle and just weaved the scrap into the stitches all the way across. Then I realized, of course, that all my stitches where twisted. Now, I could have stitched them up and straightened them as I went, but for a novice (which I still consider myself, even after 3 years of so-called knitting) that would have been too difficult while also trying to work the lace. So I went across and straighten my stitches. Which meant weaving (1st pass), putting back on needles (2nd pass), straightening stitches (3rd and 4th pass), then trying again. In the end I did a lot of work on my afghan last night, but didn’t really get any farther along. LOL! But even with all that hassle, I’m enjoying the process. The lace pattern really keeps things changing, so it doesn’t get so boring doing a million rows of st st. Maybe that’s why I enjoy lace crochet so much…the pattern constantly changes.
