Well this is a picture of my niece in her new little Dora the Explorer jammies. Isn't she the cutest little chubby butt? I have to admit it is really nice that they can go back to their own house, especially tonight they were both terribly cranky (because they were tired). But then when they are gone it is so quiet here. I even miss little Fallon tangling all my yarn up. I
Well my mother-in-law is lending me her yaktrax, which are rubbery, metal things that stretch over your shoes. I love to walk and since it gets so icy here I don't want to hurt myself. I am trying them out to see if I like them, and then I think that I will go out and get them or put them on my Christmas list.

As for knitting I got the bottom ribbing done on the hat I started. I am going to pick it up as soon as I am done with all other projects (maybe)hehe. Everybody wants me to knit a hat for Fallon because they all liked Mattix's so much. So now I got to go find some really cute girly yarn for a hat that has lots of colors. So now I have to knit a cute hat for this little munchkin.

Well here is the picture of my nephew wearing his new hat this morning. I love the way it looks from above him. His sister absolutely hates hats but she kept trying to rip this one off of his head so we had a couple of fits today. Went to the Shepherd's Market Bazaar today. It was really neat they had so many booths there with handmade goods. My mother-in-law made me feel really good though when we got to the knitting type crafts she told me that I should do my own booth with knitting and quilting. I also like to quilt but I haven't been able to post anything about that seeing as my sewing machine is all packed still. Tomorrow I am going help sew up some new jammies for the kids though. I'll take pics to show you, the fabrics are so adorable.

In other news my mother-in-law absolutely loves anything M&M and today we were at Albertsons and they had a big stuffed Red M&M with reindeer antlers and a candy cane so we got him as an early Christmas gift for her so that she can put him up before Christmas. We took pictures of the kids hugging him (and then later squabbling over him).

There are no pictures of Fallon with the M&M guy because she looked away for all of them and so I had to delete them.

I also started work on my new hat. I know I know I was supposed to finish all other work before I started. Relax I just cast on for it so that I could pick it up when I am done with the other stuff.

Rainbow whirlpool

Well I finished my nephew's hat today. It turned out pretty neat. I was originally planning to do some cabling but when I saw that the colors were swirling I decided not to make it to busy so I stuck with a p3, k2, p2, k2 ribbing, with a normal decrease. So here is is...
I am going to finish the kiwi cable sock and then I have a really beautiful hat pattern (Claudia) for myself that I am going to knit up in a couple of days. I has a lattice band mixed with ribbing. I have some beautiful yarn in a linen color. I almost forgot that I have those pop top mittens that I started and so now I have to finish those as well.