Monthly Archives: December 2010

My house smells like cookies… I’m not complaining.

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Ahh, my house is clean. Seriously, is there anything better than a clean house? (Except maybe a clean house with lots of fresh baked cookies?)


Made another (huge) batch of cookies for Paul to take to work, cleaned the house, finished Christmas shopping, all of the presents are wrapped, I am (mostly) packed, the dishes are done, now I’m just trying to decide which knitting projects to take with me on the trip. (This is difficult. Last time I traveled I took no less than 8 projects with me, and had time to work on ONE. Waste of precious suitcase space) but I am planning on a lot of downtime on this trip, so maybe 3 projects and a book? I can always go to the yarn store and buy more yarn if I am dying for a project.

Also, trying to learn how to knit ruffles… I am not impressed so far, seems like ruffles would be easier. Also, I love ruffles, why has it taken me so long to try them? Anyhow, this will be a ruffled baby hat, and I need to learn to knit a flower to go on the side. Why have I never knit a flower before? Huh.

Blogging might be light during the trip, due to the fact that it’s Christmas, and who blogs during Christmas anyway? I am hoping to keep up with my December Photo Project, I am pretty proud of myself that I haven’t missed a day yet! And we’re already on day 22, so I can do another 3, right? Or! I could take 3 more pictures today and then set to Auto-Post and just call it good. Is that cheating?

Well, off to make dinner and pack away all of the Christmas presents.

Merry Christmas!

Diagonali!

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So we have a winner, it’s now named Diagonali. My Aunt Cynthia came up with the name, so I’ll get a little present to her.

This is my father-in-law wearing his new Diagonali Scarf!

So here is the Diagonali Scarf  pattern:
Two skeins Cascade 220 color Slate
Size 6 knitting needles

Cast on 20 stitches
Row 1: *K2,P2* Rep to end of row
Row 2: *P2, K2* Rep to end of row
Every 4 rows move your stitches over 1 stitch,
So at the beginning of the 5th row P1, K2, P2, and repeating until the end of the row.
Repeating this until your scarf is as long as you want it (Mine was about 6 ft long) and bind off!

Persimmon Slouch

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Working on another Lemon Curd Slouch Hat

Using Cascade 22o for this, the color is Persimmon.


TOTALLY done with Christmas orders and it feels really good. I’m still working on a tiny bit of Christmas knitting for my family, but I am pretty happy just being done with all of my orders!

Twisty Scarf Voting!

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Ok, so I finished my twisty scarf, and now I will let you guys vote on which one you guys like best. I just can’t decide!


I’ll also be sharing the pattern later this week.

There was a nice bit of snow coming down while Paul was taking these pictures

And what I really like about this scarf? No blocking required! Which is good, because I finished it late last night and it’s going to its new owner this afternoon!

Ok! So now I need you to vote on the name you like best!
A) Twist and Shout
B) Diagon Alley
C) Tree Trunk
D) Cable Crossing
E) Licorice Twist
F) Twizzler
G) Hagrid’s Beard

OK! So leave me a comment and let me know (All of the names above are ones that were suggest to me in the comments when I first posted a picture of this pattern) And whoever had the winning name will get a little present. (That is unless it’s my name that is drawn picked, then I’ll send it to the runner up!)

DPP: Day 18

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December Photo Project: Day 18


My traveling shelf. My gnome that went all over Europe with me, a penny pressed in Orcas Island, where Paul and I went on our Honeymoon, an Eiffel Tower obviously from Paris, a Mosaic I made at a summer camp in 8th grade (I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a butterfly)

Stripey Boys Hat

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For an upcoming baby shower.

My coffee canister is becoming a regular pro at modeling baby hats for me.

I even made a multi-colored pompom! I bought myself a little plastic pompom maker because I was tired of making them without one, using little cardboard circles… guys, it wasn’t working out so well, but now, with this pompom maker, I am a regular pro at it these days.

Loving the blue on blue. There’s just something about stripes that really draws me in. Especially cute little boys in stripes, right? Definitely.