Happy Thanksgiving!

Is everyone ready for Turkey Day?  I am NOT!  Thankfully I am going to my aunt's house so I do not have too much to do!  I only have to make 2 dishes, but I still need to go grocery shopping....Yikes!  I did want to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!  I hope you have a wonderful time!

I had a pretty busy week at work last week.....and it seriously affected my knitting time.  I moved from one building to another at work (right across a parking lot and driveway).  It was not far, but I was the "Move Coordinator" and that sucked up my time, and it make me super tired in the evenings (what's up with that?)!  In my old building I never saw daylight.....the building was made of concrete with very few windows.....well, the new building is made of lots of glass and look at my new view from my desk!  I am super excited!

I have some pretty exciting semi-stash enhancements....first, do you remember when I was going to try to crochet a hippo for Darlene?  Well, I failed miserably...but I met a wonderful lady on ravelry named Denise.....she made the hippo for Darlene and one for me (Can you guess mine is the longhorn color one?)

I gave Darlene hers this morning....I was going to wait till Christmas, but I just couldn't....she loved it.

Denise, I have no clue if you read my blog or not...but THANK YOU SO MUCH!  You ROCK!

I got my 4th and final shipment from Strickmich!Club 2015.  As I have said all along, I did not join for 2016, but the funny party was......I did not even get an invite to join again (usually current members get to sign up first)....so I am guessing they did not want me back!

I had a SNB a my house a few weeks ago and a good friend of mine showed up with a backpack that looked like cable knitted fabric......no, I did not NEED a backpack....but I got one!  LOL!  Isn't it cute?

I am also doing a New Products for Hiya Hiya.....so Qianer sent me 10 silk eye masks, 10 Octopus Snips, and 10 Sheep Needle Gauges.....I am keeping one set and swapping the other 9 sets....you can read all about it here.  Thank you Qianer!

The stash enhancement I am most excited about is a large bag that Darlene made for me.  Her hubby made her a large bag like this....it was meant to be a sweater bag for an awesome sweater that she was making her hubby (more on that later)...but it is so large, you can carry anything in it......well, this was pretty much a one of a kind and she is not selling it in her shop....but I found the cutest sheep material and I asked her if she would make me one if I paid her.....of course she said yes (because she is awesome) and I am soooooo thankful to her for everything she does for me.....This bag is so awesome....I just love it...and it has straps!!  I already have my stuff in it ready to go.  Thank you so much Darlene!

As for the knitting.....well, I finished the socks for Paige.....I know this seems kind of minor, but these socks are much  larger than any other socks I have knit....she wanted them 'baggy' and 'loose'.  These socks were about 350 yards of BLACK!

I also worked on my doodler.....I finally finished wedge 17 and I only had 6 grams of yarn left!  WOW!  Now I am onto clue 2.....seems I am staying a clue behind because clue 3 is already out and I am not even 1/2 done with clue 2.....but here it is...it is a little hard to see because clue 2 is all black (I must be crazy to knit with so much black)...but it is coming along!

Okay.....so remember I told you about the awesome sweater that Darlene was making her hubby?  Well, she finished it and it is just phenomenal!  It fits her hubby perfect and he loves it....Way to Go Darlene!

Well, that is it....sad, I know.  I had Antonio all weekend, and I have Celeste and Cat tonight, then Antonio again tomorrow...so I am not sure when I will ever be able to knit again!  Ha, Ha!

I leave you with some fun pics.....

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Happy Veteran's Day!!

So, I prefer to be a couple days early other than a couple days late....I want to say Happy Veteran's Day to all our Veterans out there and a Big 'Ole Texas THANK YOU!

I am going to start with some stash enhancements that I do not have a good picture of.....but do you remember my Haunted Sock yarn from The Cozy Knitter?

Here it is if you do not remember:

Well, I had her do two custom colorways for me....one with Large stripes and one with Small stripes...this is what she drew up for me....I am going to have to get some pics and share them next week.

I got my new Northern Lights Black Nickel 5" set....my 3.5" set should be here this week!

And I bought myself a ring....I know this is not knitting related, but I love it!

Okay, as for the knitting.....I do not have much.  I worked a lot on Paige's socks....I got both of them past the heel...then did some increases because she wants the legs 'loose' and kind of puffy.

Then it was time for clue 1 to the Stephen West MKAL.....well, I started Friday at lunch....

But I realized I did it wrong (the pic above is the wrong way)......so when I got home, I re-started:

and I spent a lot of time on this guy.....

I am TRYING (and I do mean trying) to do this whole shawl with continental knitting...it is going, but it is going slow....sometimes I find myself going back to my throwing...but I try to change back to continental right away......

I got done with the 10th wedge....I still have 7 more wedges to go...and the rows are getting longer....so these last few wedges will take a while...I hope to finish by Friday before clue 2 comes out....now there are some finishers of clue one (of course) and clue 1 seams to take all of yarn color A....so I am really curious as to where he goes with the next clues with only colors B and C.

We had a little bit of a cold front come in this past weekend.....and I decided to make a fire....it was nice and cozy with a cup of tea, football on the TV and knitting in hand.

Well, that is all I have....only 2 things...wow!  I am slacking....ha, ha!

Have a great week!

Happy Halloween and Goodbye Daylight Savings Time

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween and enjoyed the 'extra' hour we got from saying goodbye to Daylight Savings Time!

Okay, on to the knitting.....just about all my time was spent knitting on my Socks on a Plane socks for Loopy Academy Semester 3.

And I managed to finish them!

Paige knows the above socks are for her (she does not like a high foot on her socks) and she is very appreciative...but she has been bugging me to make her a pair of BLACK socks....we all know how much fun it is to knit with black!  So, I got them started....

Other than that....I worked a little on my pillow for Loopy Academy, but not enough to take a picture...maybe next week.

This Friday the newest Stephen West Mystery KAL called The Doodler starts....and Darlene and I are making the exact same one...same colors....I am pretty excited.  She even made us matching bag sets....She is the bestest best friend ever!  Thank you Darlene.....

I got one more bag set from her....I found this material from outside USA and asked her to 'try it'....turns out it is not a very good quality material, so she will not be selling it...but I thought it was pretty cute....too bad the material is not good.

Do you remember last week I was telling you about the yarn from Berry Colorful Yarnings?  It is called Busted Rainbow and it came in...I love it!

I have even wound it already!

Some of my yarn  that I have ordered from Desert Vista Dyeworks came in...the colorways are:  ZomLlamas in Pajamas, Dia De Los Meurtos, another ZomLlamas in Pajamas for Darlene, and London in a Bag.

My last stash enhancement is a book called "Wip-o-pedia".....yup, a place to put all my WIPS in!  I really wish I had thought of this.....Now, I know you guys are wondering how many I got to hold all my eleventy billion WIPS.....I may never tell....LOL!

Well, that is all I have....Here are some Halloween fun pics.....all the candy I bought to have only my grands and 3 other kids come by....

Picture of (from left to right) Mia (Celeste and Cataleya's cousin), Celeste, Yvette, and then in front is Cataleya:

And, by Sunday around 6 pm....someone was just super tired....mom showed up shortly after this picture!

I stole these next two pictures from lovely LSSK ladies....thank you Billie Rae and BJ!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!