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