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Ruffled Pink Hat

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Ok. So while here I was complaining that the pink ruffled hat was hard, turns out it was easy. Also turns out I knit the whole thing, start to finish in under 2 hours (that’s including making the little flowers for the side.) So yeah. I’ll be making more of these.

Once again, my lovely canister making it’s appearance as a baby-head model.

I’m not a huge fan of the sort-of pointy top, however. I think next time I’ll do more rapid decreases than the pattern called for, to make it a bit more rounded. But other than that, it was a nice pattern. I enjoyed learning how to make a ruffled edge!

Also, I’ll probably make it in a smaller gauge next time, I’m not a huge fan of really big stitches, I prefer them smaller and tighter, but, the smaller the stitch the longer it takes to knit it, so, well, there you have it.

DPP: Day 23

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December Photo Project: Day 3

Ladies and Gents, we’ve have a fatality in the Tong household. While carrying in some heavy bags (filled with plates, incidentally) I managed to swing one of the bags right into the manger scene. Um, sorry Joseph and random Wise man, you’ve been beheaded. AND! I can’t find any super glue in this house. So, most likely I will put them back in the box and forget about it until next Christmas when I break out the boxes… and maybe by next Christmas I’ll have found the superglue.

DPP: Day 22

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December Photo Project: Day 22

My lame attempt at a gingerbread house. Bess’ was much better than mine. She built a castle, a CASTLE, people! With turrets and whatever those spiky things on the top of the castle are called! Seriously! (also, you should click on her name, it will take you to her blog where she tells a funny story about slipping on the ice while carrying 5 dozen eggs!) Anyhow, it was a cool house (yeah right) and then the roof collapsed, so I am made it into a shack, with a busted, crooked front door. A shack where the little blue gummy bear lives. (By the way, have you ever tasted a blue gummy bear? I hadn’t. But they’re kind of gross, and they taste like black licorice, of which I am not a fan. ) But hey, at least he’s got his chocolate rock walk-way in front of his house, so there’s not much to complain about, cuz those things are tasty.

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!)