December 2nd

I have had this cute little snowman advent like calendar for probably 40 years!  It was an Advent before I knew there were advents.

Today's boxes, before

and after.

Happy Saturday!!!

Before All The VLogs Start

 I've done an episode showing my Advents for this year and some cowls from my wardrobe, that would be perfect to knit up quick for Christmas presents.

You can watch it by clicking here

The Weekend After

 Just in case you need a break from food, shopping and family.  And need some knitting time, grab a cuppa, your knitting and head on over to my You Tube channel, here and check out an upcoming knitalong I am hosting in the new year!

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Only Another Month To Go

 I have made the decision that at the end of the year, I am going to finish my Mitered Square Blanket up and be done with it.  

Right now, it is the perfect fit for me, and I love that I am able to cover all the way to my toes with it,

and still knit on this week's square at the same time.

Oh, I have thoughts for another scrappy type blanket in the new year, but I'll save that for the new year.

Hoping you all are having as nice of weather as we are here, and that the days to Thanksgiving, are to frantic for you.

Just A Bit of Scrappy This Sunday

 

And 

To Finish Off The Week

Remember a week or so ago, when I was finishing up some knits?

Well, here we go, a few off the needles!

Inverted Triangles for Hospice ( perfect that today is Veterans Day)

Color Shift Number 2

Gramps by Tin Can Knits

Turtle Dove Cardigan from the Autumn Issue of Laine Magazine.

Now, onto the knitting of the three sweaters for me that are on the needles!  Hope you aree having a great weekend, I am!!

Why, Yes It Is

 My birthday.

And here are my presents from my local knitting friends!

And yes, I am so lucky and today for sure

We've Got Another One For You

 My friend came to help me do the giveaway from last episode, and to podcast with me.  You can find Episode 105 here

Somedays You Need to Take Care of Business

Yesterday was one of those days.  You know the days/weeks/months where you need to do something, but you just don't have it in you or when other, in my case, knits tear you away from the little details?!

 Now, my normal routine for mornings is to watch some podcasts and knit for as long as I want.  But, after finally making the call to have the furnaces checked out (several weeks of telling myself to make the call), I decided that I needed to do some finishing up of projects that have been sitting there mocking me for sometime, and to not just appear to the young man who came to do the service that all I do is sit and watch t.v. all day, hence, time to weave in some ends, do some sewing of buttons and pockets down and then blocking.

I'll post all about these next Friday, after I have a chance to podcast next week (that episode will be coming next Wednesday).

First up, the Colorshift. All it needed was blocking.  The ends were already woven in, I am just waiting to clip them after it is dry.  Those are pool noodles in it to keep from getting the creases in the sides.

Then, the Turtle Dove Cardi out of Cascade Cantata.  There were a lot of ends to be taken care of, so that was first on the agenda, and then this went onto the blocking.

Finally, the project that I have been dreading the most.  Not because I don't like it, I think it is just too dang cute, but because of all the ends and the sewing to be done on the pockets and then the buttons to be added, which by the way are just a little too small for the buttonholes, so I will fix that in the buttonhole itself once it is done blocking.  I am refusing to buy bigger buttons and sew them down!!

After all of this was done, it was time to head out for some car maintenance, and knitting on my Musselburgh Hat.  Isn't it great to have knitting at times like those?!

Rounded out the day at dinner with my grandson and his mom and dad!  What a full day!  Now, back to my other knitting!  Happy Friday!

Good-bye to Porch Knitting

 At least for this year.  It was a beautiful couple of seasons, but sadly, I don't think the weather going forward is going to have me out there too much for now.

I took advantage of some sun and not so windy conditions on Monday, to start clearing the porch off.

Before I knew it, I had decided to just motor on and get everything tucked away before Halloween.

Had one last pic to do out on the porch to close it all down.

I'm glad I did as the weather as you know from yesterday's post turned nasty and even though there was a little sun today, it just isn't very warm.

So, until next Spring, porch, I'll see you later.