Pumpkin Sunrise

This weekend contained: -SNOW!  I love it and I sat most of Saturday knitting and watching it fall :) -a dinner out with my husband at a new local favorite restaurant, their french fries are fantastic. -a movie night watching Frankenstein (1931) I was not scared one little bit and could not stop smiling because I kept thinking of Young Frankenstein . -last night we watched a new show from NatGeo titled: The Incredible Dr. Pol . Now this show I watched through my fingers (I am very squeamish when it comes to blood) and it is not a show for little kiddies, however his love of animals and his vocation shines through. -guess what-----I found the lost mitts!!  They were in the hall closet that I searched twice before in a place I already checked.....I am apparently blind these days.   -lots of thinking of what I have to get knitted up for the holidays....they are looming closer each day and I need to get to it.  I think I need two more gifts made in November, then three in Decem

  Today and yesterday were days of rain.  I have been keeping my eye out for the shades of autumn challenge during the week just in case.  This challenge has made my favorite season so much more enjoyable.  I think I am really "seeing" nature around me through the eyes of my camera.  It is fun and beautiful capturing nature.

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Here is a photo of the fetching mitts I whipped up in the car on our way to London Ontario.  I must say when you work with worsted weight yarn after days and days of fingering and lace weight yarn, the project is super fast and instantaneous. I did four repeats of the simple cable for the cuff and three repeats of the cable for the palm.  So now my mitts are extra long and bigger.....maybe I'll see them if and when I drop them.  I still love my first pair where ever they may be.

Drum roll please.........I am on the collar of my featherweight cardigan ! I know most people do not like to knit sleeves but for some reason I fly through them.  I think it is because I know the end is near.  You know, the project is near completion.  I made the sleeves three quarter length and now that itty bitty bit of yarn left over is for the collar.  I do have another skein of Madelinetosh lace in the same color but I really do not want to wind up 1000 yards.  So I might fudge the collar with another green from this project .  If  I do not like the way it looks together then I guess I will be winding lots of lace yarn this week. This week I am reading How to Knit a Love Song  by Rachael Herron.  It is very lighthearted and entertaining so far.  I have to admit I do love all the knitting that is being sprinkled in the story line.  Love and yarn paired together?  Sure, why not! I finished The Distant Hours  and I have to say the ending was spectacular!!  If you have not rea

My husband and I were back in Canada, this time in London Ontario to visit his parents.  It was a quick weekend trip and it was the first time without the kids.  I have realized we get to places faster when it is just the two of us.  We also decide where to stop to eat faster too.  But I still missed having them with us. His parents have recently downsized their house and over the summer they were in between moving from one to another and it just wasn't possible to visit.  So my husband and I did the trip, saw their little house and we had an outing to the Covent Garden Market in downtown London.  No where near as big as the Ottawa market but we still had fun walking about and window shopping. The weather this past weekend was beautiful!  I love when it is chilly enough to wear a wool sweater but not freezing cold for heavy winter coats.  I saw lots of women wearing cowls.  I think they are definitely in style. I originally thought this sign said "the lit

This weekend contained: -lots of time in the car to visit family -lots of time knitting in the car -a discovery that I am missing my fetching mitts -frantically knitting another pair to replace my missing mitts -fun with family and enjoying the brisk autumn air -knitting a sleeve and working on the second sleeve of my featherweight cardigan -appreciating the changing fall colors and feeling relaxed and serene How was your weekend?  Joining Amanda at habit of being