Catching Up
I had better begin by apologizing for being such a negligent blog-poster… If you have been looking for a recent post I am sorry. I have been losing track of days by the handful and haven’t even been knitting all that much. I am promising here and now to get back on track and stay there and hopefully you are all still out there ready to read…..
I work at Halcyon Yarn Monday through Thursday and since August have been building a house Friday through Sunday while still fitting in regular life stuff: cooking, some cleaning, mothering, a little sleeping. Recently it all caught up with me I think. So I have vowed not to do any Christmas knitting this year. To try and keep pressure and expectation low; I have enough stress and deadlines right? (Like the blog that I have been neglecting) So what am I working on now? A blanket for my brother. For Christmas. It is a compulsion to knit andor craft for those we love at the holidays. And I am failing miserably to stay away from Christmas gifts. Just this morning I wound 3 hanks of Peace Fleece into balls for Meredith’s first hand-knit stocking. (She is 5 already-shame on me!) I never succeed in knitting early Christmas gifts because I can’t get revved up for it until after Thanksgiving. So pressure and deadlines it is.
Joe’s blanket is a bigger more manly version of the Encore 8-Hour Baby Blanket. I love to make the building blocks blanket 
because it is just enough thinking to keep me interested but not TOO much thinking and it is reversible. I leave off the garter stitch edges/border to conserve yarn because the block pattern looks good that way and it keeps the edges from rolling. I am using the Patagonia cotton we used to carry since Joe is down in Georgia.
The stocking that inspired me for Meredith is the one out of the second Mason Dixon book. It is done in the round on two circular needles and I think it will go fast. It is going to look smashing in these colors. Will post progress. 
Some of the other ladies at the shop have been keeping busy and here are the beauties they are working on. Susan is making a sweater with Noro Iro out of the new Noro Volume 26: World of Nature. Kendra is making the Amherst Cardigan out of the Noro Vintage and Beth is knitting the infamous February Lady Sweater out of the Lana Bambu. Here they are:
So here’s to all the last minute Holiday Knitters! Have some egg nog and Knit It Up!!
Let me know what you are Last Minute Knitting…
