Spending Veteran's Day weekend at the Lease

I hope everyone had a great Veteran's Day.  Thanks to all our veterans out there for all your service and sacrifices!

I left work early on Thursday and Jaime and I headed out to the Deer Lease....it was fabulous and super relaxing.  I will have lots of pictures of that later....First, I will jump in with a few stash enhancements....

Darlene got me some of the mini stitch markers from Coco Knits.  I really love these magnetic stitch markers....they are my newest favorite markers ever!

Then I needed to get some more Malabrigo Rios yarn in Sandbank colorway for Paige's sweater

Here is the yarn in mixed dye lots and you cannot even see the difference:

 Then, I got some yarn from Black Sheep Yarns in Portland OR...I see the Knotty Knit Wits talk about Anngelique's yarn all the time and I loved her pumpkin spice....so I got these three and I love how they go together and the way she packages it for shipping.

 Last week I told you about some yarn I won....well I got it....it is Zealana RIMU DK...it has possum in it and it is super soft!

 Back around Columbus Day I told you about a yarn kit I got from a friend with yarn, pattern and project bag....well, this friend dyed a new orange color and I asked her if I could switch...and she let me me.  I kept the gradient, just changed the orange to his bright copper color....I LOVE IT!

Lastly I got some Knit Picks Brava Bulky Yarn to finish Antonio's blanket...I did not take a picture of all the yarn....here is the blanket.....

Now...the knitting:

I worked on my November socks.....

And, I finished them....Yahoo!

I think next month will be wine accent colors with stelina.....I have never knit sparkly socks.

I worked on the dreaded black sweater....I got both of the two front panels to 23" (seems like 23 feet) and joined them:

Then, I worked on Paige's sweater....I am just doing miles of stockinette.....I am trying to get the back panel to about 23" (it goes much faster than the black ribbed sweater) so I can do some measurements and decide how to do the front panels with the pockets....I have a little more than the 10" now.

Well, now I know that is only three things...but that is all I worked on....It does not seem like much, but it was a lot of knitting over my long weekend.  It was nice and relaxing.

I did not watch Antonio this past weekend like I usually do....and Antonio has done really well in school, so Paige took him bowling....I love this kiddo!

This past week I made a Cauliflower Pancetta Mac and Cheese dish from my Hello Fresh box and I LOVED it.....I have put the next couple of weeks on hold as I try to get some Christmas knitting finished (and not cook so much and save a few bucks)....but I really loved this one:

Okay....here are my Deer Lease Pics....there are sheep, goats, horses, cows, guineas, chickens, all sorts of animals...so here are just a few pics.....WARNING, THE LAST FEW PICS ARE OF DEAD ANIMALS.

WARNING...HUNTING PICTURES:

Jacob got a great Axis Buck!

Another hunter got a 6 point White Tail deer.

and another hunter got a coyote to keep them from killing the goats and sheep:

It was a great lazy weekend....Happy, Happy, Happy Knitting everyone!

Happy Columbus Day!

Happy Monday everyone....I hope you are having a fabulous Columbus Day!  I am just thankful that Columbus has his own day that gives me a day off :)

So, I have a fabulous friend that dies some gorgeous yarn.....she also recently designed a pattern to go with her fabulous yarn and she sews stuff too.....so she put together a kit for the local Yarn Crawl.  Her yarn is called Guilty Treasures....her FB page is here....I love this kit....another friend knit it as a test knit and it is gorgeous!  The pattern is Pescalli's Diamonds.

Here it is knit up (Copyright to Amy McFadden):

Another fabulous and very generous friend, Ruby, went to Stitches Texas a few weeks ago....she saw a knitting kit at the Stephen Be booth and just knew it was MY color....perfect Longhorn Orange.....so she got a kit for me and Darlene (she knows how much we love to knit the same thing together).....Ruby, we cannot thank you enough....we love our new kits!!  Here is a pic of me and Darlene with our new yarn!!  The yarn is Three Irish Girls.  THANK YOU RUBY! Muah!

Speaking of 'Steven Be', the Stephen West Mystery KAL started this past Friday.....I have not decided if I am going to do it or not ( I am actually waiting to see if Darlene wants to do it....again, because we love knitting the same thing together).....Here is all the Hedgehog yarn I have purchased lately.  I love some of these neutrals so much, I ordered some more of them recently (and maybe some more Film Noir (far right) because it is my favorite).  Anyway, we are going to do something from Stephen West for the Bags By Awesome Grannie ravelry group 4th qtr KAL...and I will use some of this yarn....just not sure which ones yet:

Oh....and it is Yarn Crawl right now here in SA....and my roommate, Carol, has been on the crawl and also helping out at Inskein Yarns....she got me the mos awesome sock blank from Brazen Stitchery....thank you Carol!

She also got this gorgeous fall color skein of self striping yarn...she does not like to knit socks and she also has a large foot (13 E)...but I told her I would knit her some socks with this yarn....it is too pretty not to keep some feet warm!

Last week I told you I was going car shopping with Paige.....well, she bought a car!  She loves it.  2015 Jeep Patriot Altitude...they even put a bow on it for her.

Now for the knitting.....I do not have much....I have only knit on my Celestarium and my October socks.

Here is my Celestarium.....just a few more rows in Chart F:

Here are my Halloween Moon socks....one heel done and one that is ready to be worked....then just 2 legs :)

That is it....Antonio's Halloween costume came in so he wanted to try it on....BEWARE...You might get scared:

He also wanted to play with some of my scrap yarn....Paige came over and saw this and almost had a heart attack because she did not know he had permission to do this....LOL!

I leave you with:

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!