Good morning Everyone. I'm joining in with Ginny for Yarn Along again today (thank you Ginny).
After wasting too much time by hopping off onto some dead end knitting bunny trails, I've reined myself in and gotten back to work on some UFO's that really need to be finished. One of which is Leah's Alpaca Tunic, but the dreaded seaming has slowed me down some on that. And just as I feared, it looks like I'll have it finished just in time for Spring (or summer?) -- pooh. Oh well, maybe there will still be a few cool days, so she can wear it a few times, and hopefully it will still fit next winter. I really need to time my projects better and not take on too many at one time (in the fall), as I never get them all done in time (i.e. at least by Christmas). Do you have this problem too? During the hot summer months, when I should be working on Christmas sweaters, socks, toys, etc., I just can't seem to get myself in the proper frame of mind for starting to work on warm woolie things. Must do better this year.
Another project meant to be a Christmas gift -- Bluebell Socks. They look kind of weird here, but they really do look like bluebells once you've got them on and the ribbing is stretched out. This is lovely yarn (Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine), and I love the bluebell pattern. It's from Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch
. This is a great book and has recipes for making socks with dozens of patterns in dozens of sizes. And I almost forgot, I did finish the mittens (pictured below) I was working on last time I visited Yarn Along, but they're not wonderful. They turned out really huge, so if I try this pattern again, I'll have to adjust needle sizes to prevent having Man Hand Mittens next time.
So, reading . . . I finished "Mandy"
. It was very sweet and tapped into every little girl's fantasy (at least mine) of having a tiny house somewhere. I used to make my little playhouses wherever I could -- in the back of my dad's old farm wagon, in a corner of his backyard workshop, or even behind the thick curtain of the giant cannas in our back yard. Did you love making playhouses too? I found the description of Mandy's little hideaway so sweet and cosy, and it had a shell room -- dreamy. I wanted to move right in.
I'm still reading "The Magic Apple Tree"
I'm liking it very much too, and I guess you could say this book taps into a some of our big girl fantasies of having a little patch somewhere off the grid and living a simpler life. And FYI, the Audible version is less expensive than the book. Oh, and "Wildwood" (I mentioned a while back) has sort of fallen by the wayside. I might try to pick it up again when I finish the ones I'm reading now. I kinda liked it, but had a hard time staying focused on it for some reason. Hmmmm, do we see a pattern here -- unfinished knits, unfinished books? I'm working on it -- truly.
Bye for now -- I'm going to hop over to Ginny's to see what everyone's yarning along this week. And then, I'm going to run into Dallas. There's a sale at the Woolie Ewe (oh dear).
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Happy days!
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G







