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I call it the stained glass window hat. She calls it the Quilted Hat as this is the name of the pattern. She used two skeins of Koigu, black and a bluebase. She found the pattern on our last trip to MN. Pattern: The Quilted Hat Pattern by Shelly Kang. She knitted it for her friend Karen who goes to college in Montana. Now, she is knitting one for herself. It is a slip stitch pattern. Shelly Kang writes out how to do all the decreases to keep it very clear and doable. I'll bet some of you will be wanting to make this beauty. Or perhaps you already have!

I doubt the inventor of this headlamp envisioned this simple knitter using it. I love this gift that Santa brought. My husband and son prefer the only light source in the room to be the glow of the television screen. Al can knit in the dark anyday. Now, I can stay in the same room and knit away. If, by chance, I become a spelunker I'll be all set. Cave knitting.......hmmmmmmm

I did not have time to knit my Hungarian Uncle a scarf for Christmas. Al knew this. On Christmas Eve morning AL, said she wanted to knit him the scarf. By Chirstmas afternoon when he arrived, it was finished. Leftover encore from the reindeer sweater. She knit it length wise. Uncle was nearly tearful when he opened it. He said no one had knit him anything, since his Mother had years ago. He's wearing it as he headed home after Christmas dinner. Supposedly his sister, Rita, knit a sweater that never was worn. She was very talented and artistic. Uncle says she entered it in a contest or something and it was traveling around the US. Uncle embellishes a bit...but it is fun to know my Aunt was such a good knitter!

I've saved Al's finsihed gift sweater to show you today. The zipper was put in after the image was shot. Aren't the reindeer wonderful? it's all Encore. Have a wonderful Christmas. May you enjoy the giving of your gift knits. May you find a way to catch a cat nap. May you knit heart be light, and May you find a little wool wrapped up under the tree.

Was it the curse of the verse for this gift? It seemed that the sock gift would never be knit, It seemed it was doomed from the very first cast-on perhaps the sock gift would never be passed on. Then when it seemed that it couldn't get worse, something just happened, and reversed the curse. It wasn't a Cub fan bringing a goat, it wasn't a knitting doll with pins in its throat, I'm not sure what happened that brought round good luck could it have been the magic of good old dog Huck? Perhaps he just willed it, he knew I was blue, I think that he blinked, not just one time but two Whatever did it, the socks are now knit, they are darling and warm and a truly nice gift I thank you dear readers for all your support, Perhaps now the blog posts will have to resort, to my usual blah blah blah knitting reports!

This Deer little ornament hangs on the tree, Irisheyes Lynn gave this cute gift to me, She gave another deer knitter to Al, Lynn's a good knitter, good boss, and good pal. As for the socks that are still being knit, I thought I had run out of yarn, and I quit, Sometning inside me knew there must be some more, I looked through the stash and I pulled up the floor, I searched in each bag and each tote I had stash in, my whole Cara sock plan was coming down crashin', and there in the bottom of one little basket, I saw the small ball and I reached out and grasped it. It was the rest of the colorway and I knew , I just knew Cara would not just have one sock, she now would have two! I can finish the knitting tomorrow, I think, and the Christmas blog rhyming may end then, wink wink

I was up in the wee hours the other night Rummaging round the knit bag sans light I came upon two cuffs, knitted up fine, STR no less, they were just divine. My knit heart began racing, Maybe Cara WOULD see, a pair of warm socks sitting under tree. I took out some chocolate sent to us all and I started to taste some, the round and the small. The wrappers would indicate progress you know, I finally have some sock success to show. The last sock is my knitting for most of today Al took the chocolates,she put them away, I hope I can manage on soynuts alone, please finish the last sentence, take this one home..........