I have so much to share! We've been so busy this week, which we usually are when Mike is home on break. First off, I wanna say Thank you to Eva my tea-swap pal, the postal service was taking there dear sweet time with my package which arrived today!
clicky to embiggen all pics in this post Just what I needed today to calm down after 5 days of running, 2 lovely teas to try out, a box of SUPER yummy cookies (I've eaten well.. a lot so far) LOTS of yummy chocolate (does this girl know me or what?) two balls of regia cotton in surf color and the cutest bird tin. A big THANK you to Eva! I'm so glad my box came today, it was just what I needed!! Thank you!!!
We had a good Thanksgiving at Mike's Mom's. We really enjoyed spending the day with family and friends. Friday night I finished the 6th hat for
Christmas knits to helpdid ya know, its *really* hard to take a good picture of lots of hats?
Pattern: based off of
this pattern off of the yarn label.
yarn: Lion Brand Boucle 79% acrylic, 20% mohair, 1% nylon in the following colorways
1 (white) sprinkles, 2 (red, yellow and blue) Jelly Bean, 3 (the other ones) parfait
needles: First two that I wrote about in a previous post I used size 9 dpns, the last 4 I used 10.5 dpns.
guage: 3sts/inch
notes: took 2 hours to knit each hat, since I started knitting these on Monday I knit 1 hat a day!
Saturday night I started my square for
Comforting Jenn, Sunday morning I finished it up and blocked it
front of square on left, back of square on right Pattern: Little Arrows. casted on 44 stitches (multiple of 8+1)
row 1: K2, P2, K1, P2 *K3, P2, K1, P2, rep from* to last 2 sts, K2
row 2: P3, K1, P1, K1 *P5, K1, P1, K1, rep from* to last 3 sts, P3
row 3: K1 *P1, K5, P1, K1, rep from* to end
row 4: P1 *K2, P3, K2, P1, rep from* to end
yarn: Joann's sensations bellezza collection tesoro 100% wool color 954 light pink
needles: size 8 straights
guage: 5sts/inch
notes: so freakin soft and squishy! Love this yarn.
Right now, I have some mittens on the needles and I have to figure out what I'm going to bring with me up to Boston later this week.
Sunday Mike and I brought down *ALL* the Christmas boxes from the attic. Damn. After all that he was such a sweetie, he went down to the grocery store to buy me ice cream sandwiches that I.had.to.have. Today, we decorated the tree and rocked out to some Christmas tunes. I'll leave you with these pics
must go catch up on emails...
it won't kill you, really. now do it.
2007- 7 pairs so far! 
