Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi everyone....it is the Monday before Thanksgiving....are you ready?  Are you cooking?  Is someone cooking for you?  Either way, I hope you have a fabulous Thanksgiving!

Well, I have not really been up to much except my dad's ranger....I know you are tired of seeing it....I am a little tired of knitting on it...LOL!  The good news is, I fixed my mistake!

Here it is kinda hanging in the shape of a sweater.

I got my yarn from Carie The Creative Obsession...and I am IN LOVE!  it is the greatest yarn ever!   She even named the colorway Knitphomaniac :)

So now that both Darlene and I have fabulous yarn for our Portage.....we started them!  Yahoo!!

Here is Darlene's:

Oh, and when Paige saw my yarn and the Portage cardigan I am going to make, she of course wants one.....but she wants all grey and picked out a sport weight yarn I had in my stash....I am not sure if this weight yarn will work, but we will see....I may have to make a cardigan size bigger.

I also worked on Paige's socks a little for mindless knitting!  This is Must Stash Yarn in the Beetle Juice color way.

Well, that is really all I have this week.  Antonio tested for his Yellow Belt and got it!  And I got to see Celeste and Cat this past weekend, which is always a treat!  Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Just 6 more weeks......

Hi everyone.....how has your week been?  Mine has been pretty good....but fairly un-eventful...LOL!  Did you know we are only 6 weeks away from Christmas?  Yikes!

I will get to my Christmas knitting later, let me start with stash enhancements.....I got the Leading Men Fiber Arts colorway for November...just one more month!  This one is called Winter Wonderland....it is beautiful!

I also got some Stitch Markers from fripperies and bibelots.....they are non circular, which is supposed to help when knitting lace and there are yo's on either side of the stitch marker:

I have a new yarn on the way.....it is a custom order from Carie at The Creative Obsession.....I have a sneak peak picture for you....

I am going to make Portage with this yarn.....so I borrowed some of Darlene's that is the same base and cast on to see how it looks (and yes, I did a gauge swatch!).  This yarn is going to knit up beautifully!

We had a few semi-chilly days this past week and Paige told me that she could not find a hat I knit her (way back in 2015) that she loved...

So I started her a new one.....

Then a few days later she told me she found her original hat....I have not decided if I am going to frog this or not...I may just finish it!

She said she also wanted some 'olive' socks to match...well, I did not have exact Olive color fingering yarn, but I had some Must Stash self striping yarn in the Beetlejuice colorway......I was going to wait a while to cast them on, but.......

Jaime had a colonoscopy this past Tuesday so I got lots of waiting room knitting done....they took over 4 hours to call him back and then a couple more hours after that.....so I started those Beetlejuice socks for Paige......

I also worked on my Brioche Magic hat in the waiting room and finished it the next day!

Lastly, I worked on my Daddy's Ranger......I was able to join the sleeves...and I was sooooo excited!

So I continued to work on it....about 20 more rows.....

And then I saw this........GASP!

So I put it away.....If I frog, it will be over 60 rows and we are only 6 weeks away from Christmas.....I am going to try to drop down the stitches today and see if I can fix it....I am a little tempted to leave it, but I know it will bug me!

Well, that is all I have for this past week.....I had Antonio this past weekend.....and he painted a pumpkin, this boy loves to paint!

He also got his sparing gear from his Karate place.....he tests this coming Thursday for a Yellow Belt with a white stripe.....I hope he gets it!  Paige and I are going to go and I am afraid that us being there will make him nervous....but we will see!

Well....that is it for me.....Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!