contests

http://retromummy.blogspot.com/2009/11/grandmothers-flower-garden-giveaway.html fat quarters, tons of em!

more yarn

while shopping and getting the oil changed in the car we stopped in at joanns in north dartmouth, ma. they had pound of love for $2 off, so i picked up a white and a blue skein for under $10. just want it on hand just in case thought of making vinnie a scarf with puppet hands at the ends.

new yarn

caron yarn had a mail in rebate to get this yarn. i had to send the receipt and 6 labels from simply soft yarn. they sent me this sunset colored yarn. made in turkey, 3 oz, 75% microdenier acrylic, 25% merino wool. it's very soft and such a pretty color

early grandkids xmas gifts

made this camo ski mask for my youngest grandson, couldn't find anything on the net so i made up the design myself. i also made one for my oldest grandson.

heard washington state got a lot of snow this last weekend, not sure if it was in their area. but it's coming soon.

jaunts around town

in our travel today i was able to get a set of booties done for the hospital. we frst worked outside, me in my flower garden and greg in the vegetable garden. then into the car and we went to 40 steps in newport. then to purgatory chasm, then onto sachusett wldlife refugee and saw cliffs at bird sanctuary and then onto lawton valley. some places i had never been to, othes it's been years since i was there last. refugee has a map an showed an aquarium just down the road at 3rd beach, gosh i didnt know that!

contssts

http://photoknitdog.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/happy-early-blogiversary-photo-knit-dog/#comment-735 is one contest that is giving away yarn,super colors

progress on sweater and backing up info

this lightweight self striping yarn that i've made into a vneck sweater is not finished yet. kept putting it off for the orders that came in and items to knit for laura-still no yarn.

notice how front match exactly. that took a bit of trial and error with the 2nd skein of yarn.

and here are the sleeves.well the stitches came off the needle but those will be easy to pick up. i don't write down patterns but i'll be able to figure it out as i go along. these are to be just covering the elbows.

this is my latest project that's taken a lot of time. i firuged if we had a fire i would not have time to grab all the pictures and albums in the house so i want them in this portable hard drive, that i can put into our fire proof safe. i've been putting all our pictures from cd and dvds on it, patterns, databases, cookbooks i made for nana and just all kinds of text files. ieven have dvd's of trips we took out west. then i can get rid of the vcr tapes and cd's, etc that's just lying around cluttereing the house. also i can scan in the kids old photo albums and put them onto this hard drive. it's so small it does fit in the palm of my hand. if i need another 500gid hd i can get em for $100 each now.

projects

this is the old stretched out

irish fisherman hat that matches

gregs sweater. so i took it all apart
and with the same yarn



made this one and it fits him nice and tight.







this is the multi colored blue afghan-an order i got from the blind magazine.









hats for local hospital

some hats for susan

books read in october

full house by janet evanovich
casting off by nicole r. dickson (super knit book about islands and knitting in ireland)
smoke screen by sandra brown
a treasure worth seeking
the body on the beach by simon brett
good in bed by jennifer weiner
goodnight nobody
certain girls
green mountain man by janet dailey
a lyon's share
for bitter or worse
fiesta san antonio
giant of mesabi
six white horses
night of the cotilition
secret hour by luanne rice
comfort food by kate jacobs
queen of hearts by jennifer duarte
whale island by cathy lamb
the honeymoon house (marthas vineyard) mary carter
the marrying kind by debbie macomber
and almost done with 900 page book by john muir about woods of the west coast and national parks of today

projects completed

20 hats for hospital

2 hats for susan for homeless shelters or troops

one blue afghan for an order i had

give away

http://sugarnspicecreations.blogspot.com/ flannel pieces