The Heat is On....

The heat is on to get the Christmas knitting done.
There is an extra week before Christmas this year, and
I'm in great shape!

Finished up the Padina Pavonia Sock.

 

 I'm actually very happy with them. Blocking really
opened the pattern up. For my SIL for Christmas.

I have a bit done on the socks using the
Morning Hugs pattern.

Close to starting the heel. I was going to use an
afterthought heel, but not sure now.
The pattern is easilymemorized, but a little fiddly at first.  Hard to see the pattern in the pics...

Started a pair of Ghostwood Mittens to go with the headband
I recently made.  Put just a touch of pink at the cast on edge.
Using Berroco Ultra 100% superwash wool, and Plymouth Kid Gloss yarn
held double. 

Martha is quite far on her sweater, but found a booboo down
a bit.  I'll let her tell you about it....

Martha's own words:

Can you see the mistake in my sweater? I was cruising along, medicating my tendinitis so I could speed along on my sweater. It looks good, right?  Yeah right,   until you look at the at the pattern! Do you see to the right of the pink cable needle sticking out, that's supposed to be k1p1 pattern not garter. It changed all the patterning on that side...

I'm not sure what I'm going to do, I think I'll rip down and correct them, ugh. Maybe I'll time that too see how many years long that takes .

 

I feel her pain. I have to rip my sweater out yet, once the

Christmas  knitting is done, I never noticed my mistake till

I looked at the blog.

 

She is also working on her  vibrant socks!

 

 

I'm glad she has these fun socks to help her

recover from the sweater ripping!

Guess what!  Ruth is  knitting a little...as long as she

does not do  too many purls, she is ok!  Yippee!

She will be back on the blog in no time.

In other news:

Did you check out the Indie  Giftalong yet?

I got a couple cute patterns...

I also joined the Just for you 4 knitalong.  It's a project

that can be done in a few days, just an hour a day to spend

on yourself with the craziness of holiday season.  

I am going to use Cascade 220 yarn, in burgandy and

gray.

In other news:

Joe went fishing on Friday...

He and his friend caught a lot of perch.

After hosting Thanksgiving, I felt like a truck

ran over me on Friday...LOL.

Got the sleigh filled with green on Small Merchant Saturday

Today I made sausage soup that contains: apple/onion sausage, 

onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots, corn, diced tomatoes, green beans,

black beans and spinich.  Yummmmm

and some pumpkin/apple muffins to go along with it.

That's all I've got. What are you knitting?  Have a wonderful

week, dear blog readers. 

Pre-Thanksgiving Post

Thursday is Thanksgiving...how did that happen?
I am trying so hard to get the house ready for the
22 we will have for dinner.  I won't get it all done, but
hopeful, to get most done.  Therefore, not much knitting
this week.

Have turned the heel on the 2nd sock, and am almost
done with the decreases.

I cheated and started another sock.  The pattern is
free on Ravelry, Morning Hugs...which is originally
a baby sock, but I'm using the stitch pattern.
The blue yarn is Austerman and the red is Knitpicks.
For some reason, this color combo makes me happy.
I'm going to try an afterthought heel...maybe...

Martha is starting socks in this nice crazy yarn.

She is also starting a new sweater....Anne Hanson Highlander...
She spent a lot of time adding markers and concentrating and
wrapping her head around the pattern. Her sweater will be almost
same color as model.  Nice !

Ruth is still not knitting. She is on vacation this week...not knitting.
LOL

The Indie Giftalong starts on the 21st...a great way to get nice patterns
from your favorite designers at a discounted price...


Have a nice holiday.

Colder

Much colder here in Western New York this week....
snow!  We still have a lot of leaves hanging on the trees.

I have finished up the first Padina Pavonia Sock.
It looks like Curly Sue...LOL.  I have just a start on
sock #2. I decided to do 8 rows of ribbing at the
top to make it stay up on the leg.

 I will try to concentrate on these this week.
Pattern is easily memorized.

Fiber Optics  Sock yarn....

Also 2/3 of the way done with the Gnarled Entling Ear  Warmer.

The yarn is Plymouth Merino Select, held double.

I made this pattern for Tiffany a couple years ago...these
are for Casey.

Finished up the Penchant Hat for my brother.
Cascade 220  Superwash yarn.
This pic probably shows the pattern the best.

Joey is modeling for me...(it is no shave November...yuck!)

Joe tried this on and loved the way it hugged his head,
not too big. I think its the ribbing....I'll make him one, but
probably not until after Christmas.

This was a fun knit...so fun I didn't want to stop...LOL

For Christmas presents I still have to make Joe and Tiffany something.
Then I will have made everyone I love presents...hopefully they
appreciate it as much as I love making them...and thinking about the
person with each stitch.

Martha finished up  her socks.
These are the Bricker pattern by Anne Hanson.  
This is the Wisdom Yarn, Angola Lace yarn

Ruth is still not able to knit. Her new cast is very irritating
on her thumb.  I feel so bad for her. She is doing lots of things,
just not knitting yet. 

I did a lot of cooking today. Made a meat sauce.
Instead of zoodles, I made a veggie medley to put the sauce
on rather than eating so much pasta.

I can't wait for dinner!

It's a Hunter Kind of Week.....

How can it be November already?  But it is...

and I think it's finally going to feel like Fall.

Though, we are supposed to get thunderstorms

later today. 

 Made good progress on  the Padina Pavonia 
sock from Hunter Hammersen
Pantsville Press on Ravelry.

Remember I was this far before and ripped it out...too
big.  So I ripped the whole thing back, and elimated just
4 stitches in the pattern, and it is much nicer. Kind of neat
that just those 4 stitches made such a difference.

Also started a hat for my brother for Christmas.
Also a Hunter H pattern....
Penchant.  I am making version 1.
Yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash.

I did 4" of ribbing before starting the pattern.

This is 2 repeats of pattern so far....It's starting to really
show up now.

Not sure why I needed to start the hat, when I have the socks
going, but I did.

Ruth is still recovering from thumb surgery.

Martha is well on her way on the 2nd sock....
Knitspot Bricker sock, by Anne Hanson.  This yarn is Wisdom Yarns Angora Lace, summer day colorway.

Lovely!



My son the hunter was out yesterday morning and got
this beauty!  I love when he gets them with his bow rather
than the gun.