St. Nick

When I met my husband, Many moons ago, I was touched  by a tradition done at his home. Every Dec 6th, to honor St. Nicholas, they would put their shoes out by the tree and the next day, a small gift would be left. This let the kids know they were being good and there was a good chance that Santa would visit soon. If they were not so good, an onion may be in their shoe. My husband has had his share of onions.  The onion meant, get with the program and shape up or else! 

We continue this fun tradition. The shoes used to be so tiny, now.... well.... time waits for no one. 

Ah, you may notice the space heater. Yea its cold here in the Burgh. REAL cold. And the best part. Our heat pumps went. We are running on one, that is on its last leg. 

SO, tomorrow we get the fun job of buying new ones!!! WHY is it this always happens before the holidays,  Yippee..........

I got my "Purse Exchange" that I participated in on Ravelry. WHAT FUN!!!! And my NEW friend Jean, put the best bag together ever! I loved it all. I mean all of it!! 

She sent me a Frank Sinatra CD. My folks picked me up to go to the new, Garden Ridge(Total waste of time) and dad played it all the way there and back! It was great!

Finished my Daughter's malabrigo sweater yesterday, waiting for her to put it on for a pic.

 

Working on the Noro stripe scarf for hubby. I haven't made him a scarf since we dated, about 24 years ago! It is fun trying to knit without him seeing it! 

 I also decided to make my mom gloves to match her scarf. I had to order more yarn. No one around here carries it! Blah!  

Oh yea, I bought one of the shelves from the yarn shop that went out of business and spent saturday putting it together and gathering up all my,(ADDICTION) yarn and lovingly placing it on the new shelves. Very nice. I now have a yarn shop in my house! I am hoping this curbs my need to run to Bloomin and drop toooo much money on some more yarn!!!

 NAH, what am I thinking. Michelle may forget me!!!!

It's one more done!

AHHHHHHHH, The feeling of finishing something. And finishing weeks before it is needed! Yippee, jumping up and down, doing happy dance.

Mom's gifts are complete. All that is needed is the wrapping. Thank goodness she doesn't read my blog.

The scarf is really pretty. The photo does not do it justice. No matter how many pictures I took, I could not get the flash refection off the clock. The cross stitch is so cute. I am really happy with the way it came out. 

Well, its back to work tomorrow! Man, time flies.... Thanksgiving is a blurr. 

What's on my needles you ask? I am almost finished with daughter's melbrigo sweater. I have about 4 more inches of a 10 inch neck. BORING!

I want to finish my dad's socks. They have a glass of beer on them. Really cute!  Its a pattern from I think the 40's. Really fun, I have one done. I will have to post a pic.

I want to start a vest that I picked up from Bloomin yarns. It should be fast and fun. Its a Kaffe Fassett. Michelle did one and I loved it. She has the book and yarn it calls for. I really want to get that going. Her sweater is here!

I also have the grey vest on the inside of Debbie Bliss' new magazine I want to do. It is cables and a turtle neck. 

So that's all for now. O wait, there's also another green helmet liner almost finished! Yippee. 

THINK SNOW DAYS!

Peace out, keep your needles clicking

Deb

Happy Thanksgiving

AWWW Thanksgiving. Giving thanks. Thanks for a gallbladder surgery that went smoothly. Thanks for a healthy husband with no cancer. Thanks for new babies born and friends who are still with us.

Thanks for new friends made and for family!

Hope your Thanksgiving was a blessed one. 

Oh yea, the picture is of Nephew who needed warmth while hunting deer on Monday. Made him a helmet liner pattern. Made from Melabrigo. Olive green. His color choice. Made not one but three. Yea, I got a lot of my own knitting done this week.  He asked me for this last sunday. Sweetie. Can't help it, when one of the nephews ask.... I gotta do it. And it is usually on short notice. Gotta love them!!!!

I am hoping to log on and get all Christmas shopping done via internet. I am not a big crowd shopper.  I hate crowds. They totally freak me out. No thanks. No lines, No getting up early. No NO NO! If I can't get it later I don't need it. 

Hope you had A great day. Blessing to all!

The big 50

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Getting Closer to the end....

I am so excited! This picture does not do this

 sweater justice. It is almost done. The hubby is untangling the last skein as I type.  For some unknown reason the last skein is a disaster!  And he loves to untangle stuff. Lucky me.

The green really shows up on the picture.  The buttons are the best. I still need two more. If you know anyone

who has them, please let me know so I can get them!!!!  I plan on 

getting the ten inch neck done by this weekend. Ok maybe wendesday.  

I had a Big party for hubby's big 50 today, and tomor

row is our nephews birthday. SOOOO, time will not be my own....

I can take the knitting with me... But Hubby is still unwinding!  

I did pick up this beautiful yarn at the shop going out of business. It is Cherry Tree Hill, and it is Possum!! And a merino wool. Pretty cool. 

The other is a nice yarn that has little sequins on it. Its for my mom for Christmas. 

I am making her a scarf to go with her new purse. Her very first Coach. And it is red. She wants to carry her red purse When she wears her Black leather coat.

I found the yarn, and thought it was a perfect compliment to the purse and coat. And my mom has recently taken a liking to BLING, the tiny sequins play off the yarn nicely, giving her BLING

Once again the picture on the left is not 

doing the pattern justice. 

It is difficult to get a picture of a scarf. I will have her put it on at Christmas and then take a better pict

ure.   I have about 3/4 of the scarf complete. It's and easy 4 row repeat. It lends itself to tak

ing places and being able to carry on a conversation and work on a project. I like it.  The yarn does halo but it knits through with ease and is very pretty. I like it.

It is almost my bedtime. I am exhausted. I cooked and cooked and, well you know. Lots of really good food and family close by. A nice birthday for the hubby. My  Family suprised him with a HUGE snowblower.   I didn't know they made them that big!  We have a huge driveway, and he is old now, so it should come in handy! Lets hope it snows lots this winter. 

                                                          Good night my knittin peeps. Peace out and keep knitting.

BEARS!

This is a picture my 14 year old son took outside the cabin, he and the hubby went to a few weeks ago. CRAZY! Not this girl. Thank you very much. Best part, it is the mommy bear. The cubs came for a visit too!

I haven't been able to find my camera, so I don't have my WIP pictures to show.  I am on the neck of daughters sweater. I have to knit a 10 inch neck! Boring. I did some frogging on young sons socks. It was way to wide! He has a very narrow flat foot. He would never be able to wear it.  BOO HOO!

I think I mentioned about the yarn shop closing in cannonsburgh. Went on saturday. I saved $397.00!!!! I left with two white garbage bags full of future projects.

I spent.........$103.00!!! All the patterns were a $1.00 and the yarn was $1.00 or 70% off.

Bloomin is Movin!!!! Just down the road. Closer to me!!! I like that. I can't wait to see the new shop. I love it there! Michelle is so sweet. I look forward to seeing all the new yarns and how the shop looks!

I will write more later. Its late , I need to pack lunches and make coffee. Bed is calling me......

Peace out, knit on!

MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR!

This is my FAVORITE time of the year! 

I LOVE fall!!!    I have made a full recovery.

Feel much better. Thanks Michelle for your post! Now I know one person reads my blog. 

The pic on the right is my fire place topper.. Paper pieced. Not fun! To many little pieces.

During my little kidney attack, I did not knit at all. I also fell a week behind at work, and the kids were very mad at me.  Teachers are not allowed to get sick, grow old or miss more than a day of work!. So I have had little knitting time. YUCK! 

I am getting the sleeves done on the melabrigo. It is turning out cuter(I know not a word) than expected.  The skull buttons are as cute as can be.  Funny thing, I went all the way to North Carolina and found the extra buttons.............Guess what I can't find. DEET DA DEET!!! Rolling eyes and sighing.  I know I have them somewhere! 

I am hoping to have the sleeves done today! I am going to look for the buttons at the bottom of my knitting bag. I have a feeling that is where they may

be.  

Knit night was good. Jody brought in her show and tell and I should have taken pictures. She made the throw, I won, in cream. OMG!!! It was the prettiest thing I have ever seen!!! It made me want to run upstairs and grab mine and FINISH IT!! It is next on the list of must finish!

I am so excited, I ordered GLOW IN THE DARK yarn.

Yes it does! Making hats and hopefully some sweaters for the nephews, FOR NEXT YEAR , of course.

It can only be found Here ! A must have for all of you who like a little fun in your knitting.

And for those of you who are big time readers... The perfect Christmas gift  is here. Get while you can.....The Kindle.

It was featured on Oprah and I fell for it immediately! She is giving a $50. off for 5 more days. Just go to her site for info.

Well, my knittin peeps, the sunday morning blues is playin its same old tune. Clothes are cryin they are dirty and floors need swept. So I leave you in cyber world, with thoughts of everything in its place and nothing to do, except..................KNIT!