Happy Thanksgiving

I would like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! This has always been my favorite holiday. Really it is all about the food. We hosted our family when I was growing up so it holds so many warm and happy memories. My Dad and I have been on pie baking in about the last 15 years, with Mom's help of course. This year I made them by myself since we are 900 miles away. I baked pies and sweet breads and my sister-in-law cooked dinner. We met in the middle in Philadelphia at a friends house and had a big delicious meal.

Car trips mean knitting, duh, and I have been working on miniatures. I cannot find my Advent calendar so I will use up sock yarn scraps to make stockings, mittens and sweaters and we can hang them from our mantle. I have 6 done and 2 days until we start. Luckily they only take 2 -3 hours each. I need to crank them out so I can get to Christmas knitting.

Have a blessed and joyful holiday season.

Finished, I love it!!

I finished the Landon sweater last night. It is lovely if I do say so myself. The blocking is in progress and a lovely shawl pin is on it's way. I ordered the pin off the Etsy web site, I highly recommend perusing it when you have the time. The sleeves in the pattern are 3/4 and I made these long but that was the only change I made. I would probably not do it again in reverse stockinette because I don't like the look of my purl rows. I used 11 skeins of the yarn with plenty to spare. Okay, on to Christmas projects.

God speed Marc

Have you ever had someone pass away that you knew along time ago and had not seen in years, but it saddened you and left you feeling empty? I got news this week that the boy friend of one of my best friends in high school died. The obituary does not say how. I cannot think of a senior year memory with out him in it. He was the photographer for the year book so every snapshot in the book and in my mind involve him. Life happened and miles come between and before you know it 23 years are gone and so is he. He was living in California and I am here in New York. The memorials on line are from a whole new group of people. Name, faces and memories completely different. How do people so embedded in our daily lives become strangers. That was rhetorical. Life happens and miles come between. What seems worse is that the friend and I have not been in touch for more than 15 years. I have tried to get in touch but got no answer.

I am sad. I can barely move (worse knit).

Update on Landon

Here is my progress on the Landon sweater. I slowed way down on it after someone else finished but have it mostly done. Body and borders are done, all that is left are the sleeves. I want to do the sleeves together with the magic loop method, I always make sleeves together. Of course I needed to hunt for long needles. Soon I will have every size and every length. I can't wait to finish and block it.

The Medallion Top

I finally finished this pattern about a month ago and just had a chance to get pictures. Here is Medallion Top, Vogue S/S '08. This is the last Vogue pattern I will do until I hear they have improved their editing. This pattern has many design flaws in my opinion and I would advise you save yourself the frustration and knit something else. The yarn is very nice and I would highly recommend it, Cascade Pima Tencel in color 9519. It was soft and lovely and does not stretch even with the open work of the stitch pattern.