John and the kids brough Angus to meet the knitters. They all fell in love.
Happy Birthday Ashley and Jenny! Jenny's is belated, she is a St. Patty's baby. Ashley is as young as she looks.
She is crocheting some bags for family birthdays. The bags are really cute, can't wait to see them lined.
Look at what she got. Yes, those are lighted scissors. For those times you just really need to cut something in the dark.
Here is Jenny opening some of her gifts.
I think she likes it!
Lora, this on is for you.
Jayce and Olivia.
Below is the baby blanket that was knit by Jayce.
He also knits socks, hats and dishcloths
Hey Ashley, he's a keeper!
I have been on somewhat of a dishcloth kick. I gave one away already so here are the five that are left. I have two more on the needles right now.
Nicole has finished another sweater.
Ashely brought her button stash for us all to see. I think a little bartering happened.
I got a new shoe today.
I have been having a lot of trouble with my right foot. Sharp pain if I step a certain way or walk for very long. Not sure exactly what or when it happened, but I have a stress fracture. I have to wear this big ole boot until April 7th.
I hope it doesn't snow again.
We had a huge crowd last night. I had to stand on a chair to get in as many people as I could. There were socks being knit, gloves, baby sweaters, blanket squares and a little spinning was going on at the end of the table. The best news of the evening was the elevenA (aka Ila) got engaged!
We had a couple girls with us too.
Here she is showing us her beautiful ring.
I have two new knitting books, Knitting New Mittens & Gloves and the new Mason Dixon Knitting. I think I like the first Mason Dixon book better, it has more patterns that I would actually knit. Also two knitting calendars, Never Not Knitting and 2009 Pattern-a-day.
The beautiful things below were from my KnitTalk holiday swap partner. Frances sent me some wonderful chocolates and really fun Christmas bath goodies. The yarn is from The Painted Tiger. A superwash merino, nylon (80-20) blend in the colorway breezy. I love it! The Lenox angel is going to hang near my desk year round.
Below are Ruth and the ever adorable Sam. Ruth amazes me with her creativity. I love all the "danglys" she has made. You can find some of her patterns here
We still have a few days of Christmas break left. I will say I am ready for them to get back to a daily routine. There has been way way too much togetherness over the past ten days or so.
Nicole looks so proud of her fun fur/novelty yarn scarf. She plans to wear it with the beautiful lace wrap sweater she finished Thanksgiving week.
These will be some teacher gifts. I used this Free pattern. Made 6 so far, Eli has already taken one to school.
Lora this picture of your beautiful mom is for you. Loretta is working on a ballband dishcloth.
Look at those socks, yes the feet are on the table. One foot belongs to Ashley and the other one to Holly.
We were just too wild for Jayce. He could not take anymore of our conversations. There was a very in depth discussion on weather to shave or not to shave legs in the winter. The consensus was to not. It was even said that the longer the leg hair is the better job is does keeping the leg warm.
It was only about 11:30 pm when we left Grinny Possum
P.S. I cannot tell a lie. Nicole is not going to wear that scarf. She is knitting it for an aunt. I think it is one of those aunts that no one talks about.
Today was the big sale at Grinny Possum Fiber Arts Look at all of that wonderful yarn! It was almost a crime at 40% off. There were 25 die hard yarnies in the store at 6:25 am. One of the ladies had just given birth to a baby girl on Wednesday. In a few hours there will be the night owl version of the big sale. So if you were wondering where I will be from 11:45pm until 2:00 am....I bet you can figure it out.
Look at those adorable boys. Rosie is the lab mix, I think she wants to get away.
Lydia is becoming such a big girl. Standing alone cruising along the furniture. She will be a year old in a couple months.
The pretty girl with my crew is my cousin Devon. Before she grew up to be a beautiful young woman, she was the favored babysitter.
Isn't Ashley cute wrapped in Interlacements sock yarn. I think she may have bought all the great colors. Ashley is the new favored babysitter. They love going to her house, she has four cats and Jayce.
A finished object. One of the several dishcloths I have finished lately. It is the Yarn Harlot's One Row Scarf pattern. I love it.
It's Big D with Eli and Olivia.
A table full of wonderful friends. There were one or two missing.
Nicole knit the most beautiful sweater. She planned to wear it on Thanksgiving.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend. I can't believe Christmas is so close.
Look at how cute this is. The wonderful Criquette sent me a Pay it Forward package. It was a little overdue but it came at the perfect time for me. I love that button. It is so me. The package also had a fridge magnet, very cool tin with mints and she sent the rest of the skein. I love this yarn. If you can't tell it is the Calorimetry
I would love it if one of you would tell me exactly how to pronounce that word.
I have been on a dishcloth kick. In the past 3 weeks or so I have made 6 cloths. Here are just a couple. These are probably going to be Christmas presents.
The bottom picture shows my Calorimetry with Tata's colossal Calorimetry. Hers is very big, I suggested it would make an interesting tube type top. I think it looks a little like lips.
On a personal note, things have been very rough the past week or so. I have not had much good to say, so I tend to get very quite. No one wants to hear my woes all the time. I start to feel like all I have to talk about is negative things, so I choose to say nothing. We take things day by day. Today was a good day. He was able to stay at school the entire day. It is going to be a long road to get meds right so he feels good on a regular basis.
I have more knitting to show you but that will wait for another day.
