Pumpkin Sunrise

  Good morning! How are you doing today? I'm doing quite well. I've been enjoying watching the black cherry trees drop their leaves while I sit on the back patio knitting. I am in a cast on frenzy state of mind. I started another musselburgh hat for my son in law for the holidays. He loves my knitting gifts and I haven't made him anything in a long time. The best part is I wanted super easy tv knitting and this hat is dead simple to be that very project I work on. In other news, I've been plugging away on the tiny sweater ornaments . Yesterday I feared I did not have enough yarn to finish the second sleeve of this sweater and was planning to knit from the body and then stripe the body of the sweater. Imagine my surprise when I did have enough yarn and plenty of it! I love when playing yarn chicken ends up in my favor. And call me crazy but I love that feeling of not knowing if I have enough yarn. Strange but true. I have knit four sweaters so far and would like to kni...

  Good morning! How are you? We have a long weekend here due to Labor Day. So today's Monday feels like Sunday and the whole week will feel weird. Also, our garbage day is one day later as well. I'll have to keep checking the calendar to see which day it is.  As you can see in the above photo, I've been knitting little sweater ornaments . They are definitely fun to knit and I seem to be able to knit one in two days if I am knitting each day. The local grand kids sleep over every weekend now for one night and I tend to not knit the day they arrive and leave. I get so very tired! ha ha. On Saturday afternoon my daughter in law and I drove an hour away for a bible study friend's baby shower. The photo below is the floral arrangement at our table. So beautiful!! We had wonderful table buddies who matched our sense of humor so there was lots and lots of laughing. Sadly I wasn't able to eat most of the food because of all of my limitations, but the salad and bread was ver...

  Hello! How are you? I'm doing pretty good these days! Ta da! I finished the shawl last week and finally blocked it out. I did some garter stitch edging on this shawl as well to use up the remaining yarn on the skein. I liked how it turned out. As I mentioned previously this is a holiday gift and I hope the recipient loves it. (I wish it was mine...). What have you been working on this week? Are you thinking of holiday knitting yet? I have been and have even started more projects!

  Good morning! I hope you are doing well. Over here we are heading into another heat wave (boo). I thoroughly enjoying wearing jeans once last week. The cold front was a hint of things to come. I cannot wait!  I don't know what got into me, but I was motivated to start some new knitting projects. I dug through the stash and unearthed some fingering weight yarn for a sweater and then dug some more to find something to make a musselburgh hat for my son in law. He loves my hats and he would love this one since it's double layered.  Selfishly, I was seeking some super easy knitting for the evenings. So it's a benefit for me as well. The grandkids slept over Friday night and as always we had a great time. Friday night is the easy day, Saturday morning comes with challenges to keep the younger one entertained. Oh! She had her family birthday party on Saturday afternoon. She's three years old, growing up! I think we are winning the pantry moth problem in the laundry room, eve...

  Good morning! How are you and your projects coming along? I've been very productive in my knitting. I've been inspired by the cooler weather and started thinking about knitting Christmas gifts. Yes! Christmas! Sadly today the hot weather returns and we are back into the summer heat. First up is my gray shawl that is off the needles this week but I'm waiting to block it, my laundry room had a deep clean and I was sidetracked by the deep clean. Once that project was off the needles I returned to the sock knitting . I made it to the first heel flap and gusset. I'm still thinking about whether or not to make them matching. I did like the freedom of just knitting the socks and not caring about the striping repeats. I guess I'll keep thinking about it, I've got some time. What are you working on this week?

  Good morning! Golly, the weather yesterday was beautiful! My hair looked fantastic due to the low humidity which is a bonus. On Saturday we had a crazy thunderstorm breeze through and luckily I kept my electricity, my sister and my son did not but it quickly came back for them in the late evening. Phew.  When the weather and the wind is mild, I go for a walk instead of doing my cardio inside the house. The above photo was taken on my Saturday morning walk, are they not adorable. I love how they stare me down. The local grands slept over Friday night again, we are trying to make it a weekly event as long as our schedules permit.  We had so much fun! Friday night we had pizza and played with toys. Saturday morning is a little more work because sometimes the little one is grumpy. I believe it's because she is giving up her naps. gah. I  bought the drawing book in the above photo while I was visiting our daughter and her family in the Boston area. I guess I was stresse...