Happy Thanksgiving!

I know you've all see this before, but it always makes me happy to be alive.

Happy Thanksgiving!

34 days to finish my Christmas knits!!! GAH!

Gosh. I'm so sorry. I have been busy with daily life and I haven't had much chance to sit down and chit chat and check your blogs, or leave comments. But I'm still here! And I have a hodge-podge of pics and stuff.

First: My socks for my pops. I think I'm calling them "The Dark of Winter" and they are actually darker than this picture. The yarn is Dream in Color "Midnight Derby" and I'm using Charlene Schurch's recipe for Garter Rib. It's a fast, cool looking pattern. On the couch here, is Lunker's hoodie sweater. It's my first 'big person' sweater and I think I'll take it to Coldwater Collaborative (LYS) and sit with those ladies while I piece it together. By the way, does one block the pieces before one sews it together?


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Mother-in-law: Do you let the dog on the furniture?

Me: Absolutely not! Gross!


Come on. He's just so darn cute. That red chair was just MADE for him!

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So I am also working on a sweater for this sassy chick. She was angry with me yesterday so she 'stole' my camera and took pictures of herself looking mad and giving mom the thumbs down. She didn't say a word - even put my camera back! So that when I uploaded them onto my computer I just about died laughing.

Anyway, I was knitting up a sweater for her in true Icelandic Lopi but it's just so darn thick and scratchy and oh, I just know she won't wear it. SO! Guess what! It's apparently all the rage in Iceland to wear capped sleeved Lopi sweaters! Isn't that a great idea?! I snapped a photo of one in a small craft shop in Iceland. I think I'm going to rip out the sleeves of my sweater and just do the capped thing. How hard can it be? (OMG I just jinxed the whole idea.)

This next picture I "borrowed" from Knitty. It's not my picture but it's on my list of Christmas gifts. I'm going to go and buy ugly yarn (green and gold for my Packer fan and gold and purple for my Vikings fan). Yuck. But I think this is a mitten pattern that a boy just might wear. If you have boys, you know what I mean. It's gloves or nothing. But really? Gloves do NOT keep the fingers warm here. And I was thinking I could use puffy fabric paint on the palm side to give them some grip for playing on the playground and catching footballs. Cool, huh? (I did not come up with that brilliant idea.)Photo by Elizabeth Morrison

Socks are back!

Well hello! It's my old friend - Sock. Hello Sock. It has been awhile.That sock there is a "Sleepwalker" sock pattern using Painted Skeins. I love these socks! My feet are so toasty warm. They're a year old and no holes yet.

I started knitting this sock. . . . . . last night in front of the fire and it was so nice to have a good old sock on my needles. All this sweater and fancy lace business is new to me and while they are adventuresome to knit, there is nothing like the brainless familiarity of knitting socks.

These will be a pair for my pops for Christmas. I don't think he reads my blog, so I should be fine there. He has strict guidelines for socks: navy. plain. I am going out on a limb here and knitting with Smooshy "Midnight Derby" which is a shaded solid. Not FULLY navy. And I might even go crazy and put some ribs in there to make it fit better. We'll see. We'll see.

I should also mention that I am working on non-socks, too. I finished a hat for a teacher (Christmas gift) but promptly lost it. I think my middle guy, Lumpy, may have run off with it into the woods. --- Found the hat. To be fair to Lumpy, it was under a pile of laundry.

Also, this lovely scarf that was going to be for my kid sister, but she mentioned recently that she'd love just plain white. Or black. And anyhow, there may not be enough yarn to finish this, so it may just be a table runner. (KJ, would you like a table runner for Christmas? No, not really. Hmmm).


PS. Tee, I LOL at the 'tuck and roll' and the 'Loser Cruiser'. There I go. I'm laughing again. I've soooo been there. I felt your humiliation!!

First Snow

Snow Day!

Every Minnesotan that spent their childhood here knows how miraculous it is to wake up to the first snow. Our house was filled with squeals of delight as our Lumpy, the early riser, ran about waking us all to look out the window at our first snow.

Our youngest, Belle, took a look out her window and exclaimed, "Hey! It snowed on my side, too!" Imagine that.

After a flurry of bin-opening and closet-emptying we found some winter-wear (yes, hand-knit items included) and off they went, out the door. There is no school today and the snow is falling. What a wonderful morning to be a kid.

I'm on the other side of things. I'm not out there. I'm in here at my computer in a very quiet house in the woods, writing and drinking coffee. What a wonderful morning.

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I will have some knits to show off, soon. There are no pics yet. I don't think I've had a post without pictures in . . . have I ever done that?

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