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*The skies are so grey around here it is ridiculous, so we need a little silliness. Please suggest some for me! These are my lorna's laces socks. I used CaroleKnit's picot edge for the first time. Love this trick and will use it again and again. I love Lorna's Laces sock yarns more than any other. I have told Santa's helper, (AL helps fireman in the knit department...) that I'd love another skein of their sock yarn. Any colors will do. Beatles provides some silliness around here. He is now 6 lbs and 6 months old. He checked out very very well at the vet yesterday. Everyday is Christmas for Beatles...all he wants is your lap and some toys to play with. What are your GREY buster ideas? ANy silliness is appreciated! I WOULD LOVE YOU TO LEAVE A COMMENT>

I finished Al's legwarmers on Thanksgiving morning. You see Al did ALL the cooking at our house. I just had to clean and help clean up after. So I had time to finish her legwarmers. They made me feel like dancing! I used Dream in Color for the raspberry main color and used Liberty Wool Classic Elite for the Fair Isle. I wish both legs matched but that is not how the yarn knit up. I think they came out whimsical and wonderful. I made up a pattern. I cast on 64 stitches and ribbed awhile. Then I found a fair isle pattern that was made up of a 16 stitch repeat and focused for a bit. Fair Isle requires focus, but I do so love the results. Also, because the top part is fair isle, the leggings hug there and won't fall down. Next I did a few stripes and finished them up plain in stockinette in the round. She loved them. They will keep her warm and fuzzy as our temps are really dropping here now. I need more dances in my life I think. I worry too much. Worry less...

It must be in the air.....we both knit leggings this month. I love Al's simple cable and the orange yarn she chose. She's gifting these to someone who loves orange. I am not an orange fan, in general, but I love this shade. Dance dance dance. I finished the legwarmers I made for AL, and they'll be in an upcoming post. Our Thanksgiving feast was so delicious. A really relaxing night with family followed. Today, we feast with the OTHER side. After Al and I go to the Muppet Movie..... I have always loved the Muppets. That's it here. Leggings and Muppets....and feasting. Life's good. I WOULD LOVE YOU TO LEAVE A COMMENT>

(image from Fred Flare....Sold Out Turkey Knit Hat) This Thanksgiving I'm dedicating my post to you dear pretend friends. I don't know why this little blog brings me such joy but it does. It has been a good part of my days for years now. The readership doesn't grow much, but you are a great bunch of loyal knit friends. I'll say that again and again. Pretend friends, thanks. Thanks for being my outlet for knit fun, Thanks for always cheering on the good knits and the not so good! I love your comments. I love your blogs. Your knits always inspire me. Those of you who were IN on the Take and Replace Swap this year were outstanding in every way. Those of you who watched from the blog side lines were wonderful too. Really a very heartfelt thanks. Somehow in the cyberworld of anonymity we have grown to be friends. Here's to a great knit future together! I WOULD LOVE YOU TO LEAVE A COMMENT>

Here is the centerpiece for our little dinner Thursday, and the very boring black cowl for my friend Linda. I used Zara merino wool and doubled the strands. I think I cast on 70 stitches. I wanted it to be a snug cowl. Linda walks her dogs daily and needs fashion and function! I know LInda and I know she'll like it. Last year I gave a pair of wonderful fingerless to someone at work. I thought she'd love them. I asked her about them Sunday night and she said she THINKS she gave them to her daughter....just a timely reminder for me to put my labor intensive craft to good use by only knitting for those who love to be knitting for! I'm such a potato chip knitter. I am hooked on this easy great cowl pattern. Are you hooked on a particular pattern right now? I WOULD LOVE YOU TO LEAVE A COMMENT>

I've got pumpkin bread on my mind. I've never frosted my pumpkin bread, but after googling this image for us, I have decided I must. Do you frost your pumpkin bread??? Cream cheese vanilla perhaps??? I spent the workend working. The night shift is given the task of taking pictures of the babies for holiday cards for their families. Last night Zoe and I tried desperately to get a good shot of triplet babies for their parents. We simply did not succeed. What came out were little white blobs of babies all scrunched up and ignoring each other. Sort of like scoops of mashed potatoes, although potatoes would have sat more stilly. How hard could it be? I love to take photographs. But it was so hard. The flash would go off at all the wrong moments and the delay on the camera would capture exactly what we didn't really want: little tiny hands in front of faces, and tongues rolling out of their little lips. So we tried......and I suppose the family will be thankful fo...

Here's Al wearing her handknits as she is held above rushing waters on the Giant's Causeway in Belfast Northern Ireland. She wasn't liknin' the bridge so much. ...... Her strategy was to wait until she had the thing quietly to herself so no one would start jumping up and down and scaring her to death half way crossed! I wouldn't even have crossed it.... no way...no pressure...no how! I'm looking for a good book for my mom to read. I saw on M's blog Stitches of Violet , that she finished Tess Gerristen's The Silent Girl. My mom likes novels about Irish Family Sagas. Do you know of any? I have to get large print books for her, and that limits things a bit too. I think I"ll be facing the second fair isle leg warmer for Al tonight ......a girl who comes to a bridge and crosses it deserves leg warmers don't you think??? Happy Workend I WOULD LOVE YOU TO LEAVE A COMMENT>