Its Advent Season in April (plus a follow up on Feb 18th's Exciting New Project to Cast On)!!!

 Hey everyone!  How are you?  Well, it is Advent Season.  Meaning, it is time to order the advents that will ship out in November.  Nothing like paying for something 7 months before you get it...LOL!

Did you order any??  I got 2.  Chelsea Yarns and Suburban Stitcher

Some of all that yarn I ordered has started to trickle in.....

(the above colors are ot true...pretty blown out.  Last week's post is better)

This pink yarn came from Amazon......I swatched it..and it is a bit thinner than I thought.  So I ordered a little more so I can hold it double for a baby blanket.

The turquoise yarn I bought last week was for making hats for Lupe's mom for her birthday (the 16th), but we took her to her radiation treatment yesterday and she needs hats now....so first one done

This is the 2nd item finished in April.  I wanted to finish Coley's shawl in March, but it was my first finished object in April (just need to weave in 2 ends)

I started a new crochet blanket

I started the Hap (baby blanket) for the Woolly Thistle KAL (#2025twtshawlkal)

and one more hat for Lupe's mom

I also cranked a blan to make her socks.  However, the yarn pooled

So I recranked a looser, but I think it is too loose. 

I might make these for my mom, and then re-crank the rest of the yarn for Lupe's mom...Im still thinking about it.

The person I am the fiber fairy for got her birthday present.  Plus we had a bit of a cold spell so she has been able to wear it this week.  She knows I am her fiber fairy because I messed up the very first month.....but it is still fun getting her stuff

Well, that is really all I have.  I have been doing a fitness challenge and had to post some meals....so I thought I would share here too....of course, Lupe cooked them (not me).

Oh...I almost forgot....Lupe and I went to a San Antonio FC (football (which is really soccer) club) game.  We had a great time even if we lost.

Man am I forgetful because I almost posted this without updating you on Grace's sweater...She loves it and it looks fabulous on her!!!!

 

Have a great week everyone.  And shout out to Paula H for the funny sheep meme.

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

So many things......Dog Attack, 4th of July, Knitting Retreat!

 Hey Everyone.....a couple of weeks ago I went to my sister's lake house for the annual Knitting Retreat.....and I did not take enough pictures.....I am so sorry!

I took Jax and Purl, so I mostly have pics of them!  But first.....let me rewind.....shortly after my last post, my handsome dog was attacked by a neighbor's pit bulls.  If I rewind even further back, these same two pit bulls killed Precious, but I did not report it because Precious got in their yard.  However, this time the dogs got in my yard.

Here is Jax pre-attack....

Here are the two meanies that did it (the mower and pallet were placed after the attack to try to keep them from getting into my yard, but they still got in...these pics are after the attack)!

But this girl is the most aggressive of the two

Here is Jax at Vet

And here is Jax after vet....the vet said to put a t-shirt on him....isn't he the cutest dog in clothes ever?

The owners of the dogs are renters and SAPD told me not to talk to them, so I have had to file all sorts of paperwork......I had to file an affidavit to get the dogs declared aggressive.

And it worked.....they have been classified as aggressive!

Then the 4th of July came and went.....and here are some great pics of Paige and familia (Bizz and Sam and kids included)

Then it was time to prep for the lake house, I got some yarn to try to knit a tank top with before I went to lake house....but that did not happen.....

Then I got nails and toes done

Then it was time to hit the road.....and Jax was SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!

Then we got there.......

I even got to see a cicada coming out of its shell.....it was kinda neat!

While we were there, Tami had brought some White Claw drinks that we were all enjoying.....and it was too cute that my sister had this as a toy for her dogs.....

I worked on socks

The two Jimmy Beans Wool blankets I am making!

and the crochet blanket......I hit brown while at the lake house!

Elizabeth cranked us some tubes with her CSM and let us crank some of our own...I loved doing it so much, I have ordered a CSM for myself!  It will take 11 weeks to be done!  I am so excited!

After the lake house, my dogs were POOPED!

My aunt Patti is in town from Florida visiting my parents and we went to a restaurant (Clementine SA) where you can pick the option of the chef picking your food (its the "Feed Me" Option)....like a 7 course meal....I did not always get a picture before we started eating, but it was a ton of fun (and I only got pics of the food and forgot to get pics of us with Aunt Patti)!

So, I think this blog post has more pics than any other.....sorry for the picture overload...but have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!