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!

Happy October!!!

Hello Everyone......It is October and it finally feels like it here in San Antonio.  It was about 62 degrees Fahrenheit this morning!  Paige even sent me a text of her wearing socks I knit her:

I still have a pretty nasty cough from my Bronchitis, but I am going back to the doctor today so I hope she gives me something to help.

Okay....I have some stash enhancements...First, I got my new iPhone 7....I had the iPhone6 (not the s) so I was looking forward to this release for a better camera...I am enjoying this new phone!

I also got some more DVD yarn in the Animal Dreams colorway.

Then, I got sweater yarn...for a sweater for me...I am not sure which sweater yet...but I want a sweater for me.

Then, I snagged Hedgehog yarn....I am pretty sure I will use these together in a shawl (but I might trade out the one to the far left with another variegated), but I am not sure which shawl yet.....Maybe Stephen West Mystery KAL or his Boardwalk Pattern.

A friend of mine found some hedgehog at a local store and snagged these two for me:

I also hit the 10k club with Eat.Sleep.Knit, and got a free skein of Western Sky Knits in the Beam Me Up colorway.  I think I may make a hat with this!

I got a 2nd skein from the Miss Babs Tour (I showed you my first skein last week):

Darlene got me a Fleegle Beader....Thank you Darlene!

This week has been crazy..Paige's car was in an accident...they have totaled the car...when she went to get all her stuff out of it, she was the first to come up on an accident where a car was on fire and she called 911 and helped people out of their vehicles.

We get to go car shopping this week....not fun!

Okay......so on to the knitting.  Well, I feel like I really have not knit much this week...I worked on my Celestarium....I am really enjoying knitting on this a lot more than I thought I would:

And I started my October socks......

That is it....that is all I knit on....wow.

I had Antonio a few nights this past week and he actually had  homework....he got to take home the backpack for adventures with Sadie....Sadie is the classroom stuffed dog.....so Antonio took some pictures with Sadie....even during golf.

We also went to the park with Sadie:

Have a great week everyone!  I leave you with some pictures of Precious not being able to get comfy.....LOL!!!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Blah Blah Bronchitis

Hi everyone!  Last Wednesday evening I was experiencing some irritating post nasal drip at the back of my throat…I drank some hot tea and hoped it would go away, but when I woke Thursday morning, I felt pretty crappy…I rested, slept 10 hours, took meds and repeated....then Antonio came over his usual Friday evening to Saturday Evening.

When I woke Saturday, I had a bad cough, but we had golf to go to (my dad had a lefty set of clubs special made for Antonio) and we were gonna hit a bucket of balls with his new clubs....pics later.

Saturday afternoon, Celeste and Cataleya came over for a few hours and the kids swam in a small inflatable pool in the backyard, they ran around and played and colored, etc...Thank goodness Paige got off a little early and came over to hep me out…I was beat but stuffed full of over the counter everything just to get through the day because I didn't want to cancel. 


I went to bed after everyone was gone and slept 10 1/2 hours to Sunday morning.....but now my cough was worse so of to TX Med Clinic and a diagnosis of Bronchitis was made......steroids, coughing syrup (the good stuff, makes my face tingly), and tessalon pearls prescribed.


Today I am finally starting to feel better instead of worse (Yeah)!

Stash enhancements.....I got a new crochet hook to use for beading with my Celestarium.  This is my favorite one yet.  It seems to fit the bead and the yarn well.  Darlene also ordered me a fleegle beader, but I have not tried it yet (since I have been sick and have not seen her).

I got some worsted weight Juniper Moon Farm yarn.  The base is called Moonshine and it is Wool/Alpaca/Silk.  I am planning on making a cowl with this....but not sure when.

I got some self striping sport sock yarn from Darlene that I am in love with!

And a skein of DVD yarn in the Curious George Colorway

My 2nd skein of Hedgehog Yarn in the Film Noir colorway came in (both skeins together):

And my roommate, Carol, got me the most beautiful mug from Remembrances Pottery....she did it as a Thank you for letting her stay with me while her house is being fixed.  I love this mug...it has a knitted pattern on it, thank you Carol!

Knitting.....well, I have had lots of knitting time, but not all of it was utilized....being sick sucks....sometimes you just go from bed to chair to bed to chair......but I did finish Jaime's hat for his ride (he leaves Wednesday) and my September Socks!  Yeah!!!!  Now, his hat has some serious errors.....but it is my first attempt at double knitting and I am still pretty proud of the results!

Here are my socks...

Next Month I will do Halloween Moon:

The only other thing I knit on this week was my Celestarium....I am behind because I put it away to finish hat and socks....but I am hoping to make up for lost time while I recover from Bronchitis.  I am just about 10 rows into chart E, but hope to make it to Chart F today or tomorrow....we will see.

I leave you with some pics of my grand kids.....Antonio carrying his own clubs (next to my dad) and Antonio, Celeste and Cataleya in the pool...have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!!