Merry belated Christmas! It was a lovely holiday and I will soon share pictures from the recent events but for today I have time only for a few. I'm also on the blogger app on my phone so I can't figure out how to embedded links! Bear with me!
It is a slower week now for us and I am enjoying catching up on a few tasks like finishing putting up some apples and tomatillos as well as relaxing bits of time with a jigsaw puzzle, extra handiwork, and a bit of reading.
I am knitting my Hitofude again now that my last minute Christmas knits are done! The main body is in process now and it is basically the same lace pattern until I cast off, I think. I am getting ready to cast on a a free Pickles hat pattern called "From Norway with Love" but I will need to swatch carefully because the pattern is written for a different weight of yarn than what I plan to use. Has anyone reading this knit that pattern before? If so I'd love to see pictures on ravelry of yours! I have wanted to make it for quite some time now! One of my 2016 knitting goals is to make at least three Fair Isle/color work projects so I'll jump right in on that soon.
I received the "Sweetiepie ABCs sampler" for cross-stitch from my parents for Christmas and I have already begun! I love Alicia's...everything (www.posiegetscozy.com)! So it is a treat to neatly stitch each little piece of this sampler. Cross-stitch is wonderful and provides something different for my soul than knitting, perhaps because it is purely ornamental!
I have finished my Christmas advent devotional and returned to The Wolf King and the Throne Warden by Andrew Peterson. I read Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosch last week as well and enjoyed it as much as I enjoy her blog by the same title. Next week I hope to post my booklist plan for the new year, something new I'm trying! I finished 28 books this past year which is pretty good for me, more than two each month! I am proud of that number. Eight of those were audiobooks which is a good way I am finding to be able to get some more books into my life.
Happy pre-New Year my friends!!
Joining with Ginny (www.gsheller.com) for yarn along day
Merry Christmastime to you dear Sarah!
ReplyDeleteI love visiting with Alicia too, she is such a sweetheart. I hope you continue to post your progress on your sampler.
28 books is really good, especially as you have young ones in the house, good for you :)
the blogger app is not good. I cycle between the app and on safari through the browser. Most of the times, I write a draft from home then publish while on the road. So you're not missing something, it's them. Yay for getting that sample for a present, so awesome. Happy new years!!
ReplyDeleteThe blogger app for my android phone was terrible and I had some small hope the iphone app would be better but I think it's worse! I usually try to post from my laptop but didn't have it available at the time I was working on the post - now I know I just need to! Aw well!
DeleteHappy New Year! Love your lace knitting!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful lace Knitting! I haven't done any stranded work for a while. Perhaps I should put that on my wish list for 2016 also. I have thought about getting one of Alicia samplers, but the older I get the worse my eyesight is. I haven't cross stitched for several years now because of that. I do love Alicia's blog too. I think that comes with having a daughter who lived in Portland for many years and I spent a lot of time there. Many of her pictures look familiar to me.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Betsy
I'm glad you are getting to knit for yourself again now that the holidays are over. I picked up a couple of cross stitch projects for next Christmas. I haven't done it in years so I'm hoping my eyes are still up for the challenge. I can't wait to see more Christmas pictures of the girls. I bet they had a great Christmas! Have a happy and healthy new year Sarah.
ReplyDeleteI have a sampler from her to but mine is still in the wrapping.....seeing yours is motivating me to take it out!! Lovely projects!! Happy New Year!!!
ReplyDeleteI love cross stitch. Every holidays I get out an Amish sampler I am working on and get some more stitches done - should be finished in about 2025! I will love to see your progress. Love the grey yarn. Fair Isle sounds wonderful - look forward to seeing them too!
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of reading! I am hoping to do more reading in the new year myself and am hoping to start with Jambusters. Happy new year!
ReplyDeleteYour hitofude seems to be coming along nicely. I will finally cast on mine when I return home on Saturday. Happy New year.
ReplyDeleteI tried the blogger app before Christmas and while I managed links I couldn't move the photos into the text. Loving the look of your hitofude.
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