Woof

Made the dogs Christmas collars. They came out so cute and very easy to make. I saw it on Knitty Gritty (TV show) and naturally I changed it a little bit. On the show, the guest knitter said to use the yarn doubled, but I don't see that in the pattern from DIY. I used some old red acrylic yarn I had laying around and then got a skein of Lion Brand Fun Fur. I knit with both yarn strands held together. There was plenty of yarn to knit four collars with lots of yarn left over. Here's the link

More hats

I sent two baby hats to the orchard and a pair of baby socks. I have two other hats in the need to finish stage. More to come on those. This is my Purl Hat (introduced back in August) knit with the Jelli Beenz yarn from White River Yarns. I had enough yarn left-over to make one baby sock and left over yarn from the hat I knit previously to make the other one. They came out so cute, I love to knit socks. I used the Yankee Knitter Classics Socks pattern. The other hat I made was was the Fair Isle hat. I should have enough yarn from knitting this hat and the one I made in October to make another hat (or socks).

Ice days

Friday was a snow day -- yeah!! I love snow days even if we do make them up. But this Friday was not a good snow day. We lost power from 4AM Friday morning until 3PM Saturday afternoon. How is that possible!? I live in town just a block off route 5. Our pine tree took down the phone pole. An adventure. Very glad to have power back. I spent the day knitting and reading.

Snuggly brown

I made a scarf for my dad to help keep him a little bit warmer this winter. I cast on 36 stitches on size 7 needles, using 3 skeins (109 yards each skein) of 100% alpaca yarn. The trick was to make the scarf long enough to wrap but not so long it gets in his way. The end result: 7 ½-8” wide and 54” long, but I expect it will stretch. I did straight knitting and slipped the first stitch of each row. It created a nice edge. This yummy yarn is “Classic Elite Inca Alpaca” from Northern Nights Yarn Shop in Norwich, VT.