tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post4117311219132051394..comments2023-10-19T09:53:38.101-07:00Comments on AmpuTeeHee: ellieMsAmpuTeeHeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733762919331458954noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post-20676819263275252842009-08-26T09:16:46.522-07:002009-08-26T09:16:46.522-07:00you could make the hat for someone at the home who...you could make the hat for someone at the home who doesn't get many visitors and give it to them "just because"!<br /><br />ellie knows you love her.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04311025616159653672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post-7746957352634889362009-08-25T13:46:41.430-07:002009-08-25T13:46:41.430-07:00Mmm, so sad. I understand, though. My sister had...Mmm, so sad. I understand, though. My sister had breast cancer for 9 years before she died of it. About 4 years before she died, I had seen a contest to design a breast cancer ornament, and then I started knitting Christmas ornaments with beads. I started to design an ornament with the breast cancer ribbon, probably 3 years before she died.<br /><br />Designing is hard! I tried and tried on the round balls, and got nowhere. Then I found an egg-shaped ball, and after several variations finally produced something I liked. I wanted to present it in person. I gave it to her 3 months before she died. She thought it was amazing, and kept asking where I'd found it. Since the cancer was by now in her brain, she couldn't understand that I'd designed it. <br /><br />Along the way, several people in my guild wanted the pattern, and I can't find a source for the balls now.<br /><br />Many many regrets from that one!<br /><br />I think part of my delays was caused by thinking if I don't finish this, she'll keep on living ....<br /><br />I'm now working a prayer shawl for a friend, and it has been WAAAAY too long in progress, but I can't seem to get it finished. <br /><br />Thanks for writing about this. Sorry this great lady is no longer with you.Jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post-84195554280179791692009-08-22T04:42:49.803-07:002009-08-22T04:42:49.803-07:00Have you ever noticed - heck, of course you have -...Have you ever noticed - heck, of course you have - that we sometimes tend to put things we want to do for people of a certain caliber to the back burner; we put things off because our tools aren't good enough for that person, we put things off because they're good people and will forgive something being late, we put things off because other things make more noise and the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Sometimes I think a kick-in-the-heart experience isn't as much about the fates making us feel guilty as it is about grokking the lesson to put our hearts on a better path; a reminder to do for the ones we love first rather than doing what's directly in front of us first. <br /><br />And thus you have my pre-coffee ramblings; and my hugs.Lorenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12156097768835940764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post-73283675694116118742009-08-21T14:24:12.581-07:002009-08-21T14:24:12.581-07:00/Hugs/ Follow through can be so tough./Hugs/ Follow through can be so tough.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02274230430006109695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post-77124221804512848892009-08-20T12:24:34.819-07:002009-08-20T12:24:34.819-07:00I am so sorry. I am right with you on the no-follo...I am so sorry. I am right with you on the no-follow-through thing and have been battling it, well, since *my* favorite kid was born.<br /><br />I'm sorry for your loss. She sounds like quite the character.Jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231116607977696313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post-91478506943806583732009-08-20T11:50:59.953-07:002009-08-20T11:50:59.953-07:00I've been trying to find the right thing to sa...I've been trying to find the right thing to say to make you feel better, but everything I think of sounds so lame. But I couldn't say nothing because I know how you feel and it's a sucky feeling. So, I guess that's what I'll say...Cristi-Laelhttp://knittingdodo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16232845.post-54345646341210635732009-08-20T03:31:14.816-07:002009-08-20T03:31:14.816-07:00she sounds like a lovely lady - very like my MIL t...she sounds like a lovely lady - very like my MIL that we lost just before Christmas. Don't beat yourself up about the hat - we all do it - I promised MIL an afghan to keep her legs warm in her wheelchair - I spent so long looking for "just the right" pattern that she was gone before I even bought the yarn... some people you just think are going to go on forever and then suddenly they're gone.Guernseygalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04037193145574262238noreply@blogger.com