Warm Feet

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This is one of the gifts Santa left for us. We all like playing with Mr. Potato Head.These are the stitch markers Youngest Daughter made for me. The puzzle piece is the logo for Autism Awareness.I finished up the leg warmers for myself. They are nice and warm, snug and work perfectly. I had nice warm ankles all day yesterday despite the fact it was close to freezing for most of the day!And I liked how nice and thick the legwarmers were, I decided to make some similar socks. These are only two strands of sock yarn. If they are big enough, they'll be for Youngest Son (after they are dyed black). If not....maybe Youngest Daughter or DIL. They will still be overdyed if given away, as both YD and DIL are far too conservative for bright unmatched socks. Still using up left over sock yarn.

I finished up my two books yesterday! Still don't think I'll make my goal of 100 by 2009, but....the mid 90s is an admirable try! I remember in July thinking this would be an easy task. then life got in the way.... Ain't that how it happens, though?

I just discovered Patricia Cornwall has released another Kay Scarpetta novel, Scarpetta. I started reading this series several years ago, and loved the first eleven of them. Then it seemed the author began to hate the main characters and did everything she possibly could to turn them into people that hated each other and themselves. I've been very disappointed in the last five or six of them and wonder if should even bother with the new one. Hope, however, springs eternal and I keep reading to see if the characters I knew so well would snap out of it and begin to work together.

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Keeping the "We" in "Yes, We Can!"

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I get tired of never being able to have a meal out...it's just to expensive. Or maybe not? Then again, trying some new recipes may be all that's needed to make you think you're dining out.
It's time to start making slippers and socks for those living on the Cheyenne River Reservation. Here's some neat patterns for Heet the Feet.
Need a themed night light for your favorite kid?

More Projects!

So, once I finished up the legwarmers for Grand Daughter, I realized I had to make some Christmas presents for her new teachers! Although I know they are going to tell us we can't give gifts (unlike the last school which constantly asked us to provide gift cards on a regular basis for the teachers) We'll find a way to gift them!

I chose the Sideways Bobble Hat for at least one of them. I was going to make both of them from this pattern, but.... it calls for six panels and I think it's too small. Now I have another color of the same yarn (the recycled sweater) to put the odd panel in, so this one will work out okay. But I don't have enough of the contrasting third color to use it as one of the two many colors to make two identical yet different hats. So may resort to another pattern for the second hat. I'm looking at The Republic.

The rest of my holiday knitting is not on the same time schedule as the stuff I keep moving to the top of the list. None of them have to be done till right before Christmas.... Let's see, I still have pair of kids slippers (45% done), finish up the Mary Janes (55% done), and the Hoodie Scarf (55% done). It's just a matter of sitting done and finishing them. The only problem is I just keep wanting to start new projects!!!!!

Beginning Knitting

First of all I want to brag on my grand daughter. She's been working on her knitting every day. Lately she's convinced she can knit and watch TV or carry on a conversation at the same time, so she's fallen into the same trap lots of beginning knitters do and is adding lots of sts.... but hey, she's knitting!

My own knitting was limited to the legwarmers, which are almost done. I should be able to finish those up today and get back to the fulled Mary Janes.

Grand Daughter was accepted at the new school and begins on Monday. Whew! As Youngest Daughter's work schedule has changed it means I'll be the one transporting, but, that's okay. It gets me up and moving earlier in the day.

Little Knitting....

I spent the morning transporting.... Second Son had jury duty. It's such a pain to drive downtown and park....so generally we give each other rides and pick ups when someone has jury duty.

So I had to get him downtown the same time I had to have my granddaughter at her new school for a visit. Laid back school, GD was a little late and it all worked out okay.

GD goes back for another visit today, by herself, and then hopefully she'll start school there within a few days. If not, homeschooling till the first of the year.

I like the school. It's a small K-6 Montessori school two of my grandsons go to. GD will be in the combined K1 class with the youngest of the grandsons.

The knitting I did get done was on the legwarmers for aforementioned granddaughter. Here's hoping today is a bit calmer.

I had fun...

I got some knitting done on legwarmers I CO in the morning. They're for my grand daughter's birthday in early December. Using Lion Brand MicroSpun, with the idea I may have to add elastic to help them stay up.

I got all that knitting done while sitting at the doctor's office with F while we waited for him to have some lab work done. Then we went out for lunch. Took him home and stopped at the LYS too look around. Decided to splurge on some 40 inch #2 needles and try the magic loop method for a pair of socks.

And I decided to start my Elizabeth Zimmerman collection. I picked up The Opinionated Knitter. When I got home, Youngest Son asked me to take him to the local used book store. I grabbed a coupe of books I wanted to trade in and off we went. While he was off looking at stuff, I went to the knitting books. Guess what I found? Knitting Without Tears! Another EZ book for half price. It's paperback but in good shape. And I think an older edtion than the one that's listed in Ravelry and on the Schoolhouse Press site. Mine has a red cover, not the white and lavendar one. That's okay.... the older the better sometimes!

Anyway, I managed to double my EZ collection within a couple hours! Spent the evening working on the Hoodie Scarf...didn't accomplish much...almost as much frogging as knitting. I really should learn to pay attention to the knitting at least as much as I do the TV!