Three years ago I visited my distant cousin in England who knits. Before I left England we picked out a pattern and I bought the yarn, and she made me a beautiful sweater. She included the pattern when she sent me the finished sweater and at the time I didn't think I would ever learn to knit well enough to do sweaters so I put it away somewhere.

Last summer I decided I wanted to try my hand at making that pattern in different colors but couldn't remember where I had put it. It really bothered me, and I would think of somewhere else to look and get up in the night to look there, but to no avail.

Just now I needed a piece of felt so went to a box where I've got some stored, and I'll be darned, not only is that sweater pattern in there, but also a bunch of knitting needles I hadn't even missed.

So there it is. I'm taking this as a good omen that finally my luck is turning around.