Thinking about all the things

 Hi Dear Blog Readers...

This week I have been  thinking about all of the things. Christmas and knitting. I'm determined that after the last two years when my life was in chaos, I will have a good Christmas season. To me it's not the day, that is a big letdown. It's the season.  Music turned up loud....cookies....Christmas trees....seeing family...food.   And of course knitting. I want to knit all of the things in the winter months.

I have finished both pairs of felted slippers. They knit up fast. Now, I have to pick up stitches all around and knit a collar in ribbing to keep them on.  I have to search for yarn.  

Knit in LettiLopi Yarn.

Mason size 10.5 needles, double stranded

Jayce size 9 needles single stranded.

 I had time to work on the Christmas yarn socks.  Doing a German short row heel. You do it twice..the 2nd time around I used the red. Much faster than a traditional heel...but....when done with traditional heel you have already worked on some of the foot.  With this heel you are just starting the foot when it's done.  Loving the colors. Maybe because are different than the gray sweater I've worked on for months. 

 Ruth is away this week and did not send new pictures of her knitting. 

Martha sent me this note yesterday and I laughed out loud.

" A murder took place here regarding the sweater.  I was ready to Bind off the body and finally got into the sweater and it was huge. H.U.G.E!  So i ripped back to the arms and looked carefully at the final finished size.  There’s no schematics for the sweater which I rely on heavily for sizing, fit etc.  I think I’m going to make the next smaller size but I have to rethink it for mistakes, and I want to recheck my gauge too.  I did the first ripping and thinking in the evening when I’m prone to mistakes so I don’t trust my thinking.  I’m going to tackle that this afternoon"

 Here is her restart.

I was reading a blog this week and they mentioned the Bindle Hat pattern.  You use 4 (yes 4) strands of fingering weight yarn to get a cool marled effect. Knitters said working with that many strands was kind of a nightmare but loved the look when done.  It's intent is to use up leftover sock yarn.

 

 I subscribe to Feedspot today (the free version), and get some cool ideas there.  Its a snippet of different blog posts each day.

In other news:

 I made matching hats for Jayce, Mason and Tiffany last year in green. I also made an ear flap hat for the boys before. I put an I-cord knot on the top of the blue hat. And Jayce kept saying he wanted a "tail" for the green hat.  I could not find green yarn, so he and Joe decided a blue tail would look good.  He loves it.

 

 

 

He is the cutest  little guy. Talks up a storm now. 

We went tree shopping with Tiffany and boys. It was cold. Jayce was too little to appreciate it I think.

But fun. We both got nice trees. 

I am going to decorate ours this morning. I am also making peanut butter cookies today.  I stopped at the store to get two bags of hershey kisses to put on top of the cookies. There was a woman near me and had the same in her cart.  She looked at me and said baking?  I said yep?  You making peanut butter cookies too? She said yep!  LOL