Slightly fancier mittens this week – making good progress on Mom’s Christmas mittens! I’m a couple rows away from starting to decrease for the top! They are going pretty well – it’s a pretty pattern, though it does require paying attention pretty closely 🙂 Do you have a favorite style of mitten or glove to… Continue reading Mitten Monday
Like most years, my big holiday treat to myself is a yarn advent. This year I got Kate Davies Color Compass advent, and I am so glad I did! The best thing about this advent is not really the yarn (though that is great as well), it’s the activities around it. The Kate Davies group… Continue reading Color Compass
DH’s office in our downstairs gets pretty cold in the mornings and evenings. When this happens, he comes upstairs and puts his cold hands on my neck or arm. After a month of this, I decided he needs some fingerless mitts. These were very quick to make – I started them last Thursday or Friday.… Continue reading Mitten Monday
Woke up this morning to this… It has continued to lightly snow all day, while simultaneously melting. It’s around 34-35 degrees here, so it won’t last long. But it’s pretty anyway!
I have two projects going right now, my Powdermill cardigan and my Mom’s mittens. Alissa of Snakes & Cranes and I started Powdermill on January 1st of this year as a KAL. It was going strong for a while, then I set it aside for other stuff. But now I’m going to get it finished!… Continue reading Wednesday WIPs
I’m happy to report my bird and squirrel feeding efforts are going well! We’ve had all kinds of visitors to the back yard over the last few weeks. Having a good variety of food out for them is helping I think. We mostly get smaller birds, though occasionally I see a cardinal or crow out… Continue reading Livestock Report
For those that celebrate – Happy Thanksgiving! For everyone else – Happy Thursday!
The new doorway curtains are done! Did my devil-may-care pattern-less method work? Eh. Sort of. Original lace curtains. Problems – no heat retention, easily see-through at night. New knitted curtains. Solved: keep out the cold better, not see-through at night. Sounds good, right? Problems – not quite wide enough. Substantially too long. Actually, they were… Continue reading Eh
Still just plugging away at the same two projects, but making progress! I’m about halfway done with the second curtain, and ready to be all the way done 🙂 Hopefully this week. The first Mom mitten is underway, but these will certainly not be finished by this weekend. So I will have to either be… Continue reading Wednesday WIPs
Quite A Yarn 