02022020 Palindrome Fun!

  I feel like I should have made my New Year's Resolution to be to update this more often.  It's not that interesting things haven't been happening, I've just not told you about it.
  We finally decided to go with a company to re-finish the basement, instead of doing it ourselves.  This means that I have had to focus on getting more things out of there since it will be the whole thing at once and not just one room at a time.  We had a few companies come out and picked one.  Between the first walk-through and another pass after we picked them, it was decided that we would get someone out to look at the foundation.  Bill asked me if some of the cracks had been there before and I was pretty sure that they had not been.
  The guy said that it wasn't the worst he's seen, and while that might not mean much, it helps me feel a bit better about it.  He's going to have to dig around the house on three sides, push the walls back out and fix them.  While this is annoying, it also means that since we have to take everything out to fix the walls, we might as well play around with the layout.
 The design guy had fun and when we all met we messed around with it and ended up with a design we all like.  It was fun seeing him draw it out and picture what it will look like when it is done.  It was really cool how he used different pen colors for different items.  Walls were one color, work benches another, and light fixtures yet another.

  I had starting having a lot of bad dreams, so I decided that I needed a dream catcher.  I have never been a fan of the thin string spider web style, and I have seen a few with doilies used as the center.  Since I have a lot of crochet thread around, I figured I could make my own center.  The color is a bit more deep in person than it wants to show up in pictures.  I'm hoping I will have enough to finish since I got it from K&CC without a tag and it feels a bit different than the ones I'm used to seeing in craft stores.
  I'm also enjoying the pattern enough that I might use it to make a table cover as a present for a friend.  That would be another project where I don't know if I will have enough yarn and don't think I can get any more.  I haven't looked up the yarn, but it has been around for a while and I might not be able to get it anymore.

  She's done!  I really had fun making the Caron Asymmetrical Lace Shawl(even with the chart problems), however, with the extension I put on it changed the feel of it a little.  I think I might make it again but with a few more lace segments.  It will be interesting to try and figure out how to work the pattern without a chart to follow.  I might have to make a warm-up project with it because I'm hoping to work on my shawl pattern before I make this again.  I could always work on making my own chart as well.