Well Thanksgiving is over.
I am exhausted even two days later. I helped with the dinner preparations. I made a sweet potato casserole, a green bean casserole, a butternut squash gratin, and I made a cream cheese, strawberry jello dessert. Then we had mashed potatoes, stuffing, turkey (of course), ham, rolls, another jello thing, corn, apple pie, pumpkin pie, and a pudding fruit pie.
All went well, afterwards Greg, his cousins, and I all played the Wii. And then made plans for game nights. We have all wanted to do it for a long time but there was always something conflicting, but now it will work. YAAHHH.
My nephew wasn't too sure about what to eat at dinner so we let him snack on some olives. HE ATE 30 of those stupid things before he was satisfied. I like olives too but not that much.
Well I decided that since it gets so cold here I won't be doing outdoor knitting, so will not need pop top mittens. So therefore I will knit normal mittens.
I am having a hard time with my purl stitches when they are in between knit ribbing. I can't seem to make that first stitch after the knit stitch tight enough. NO matter how tight I pull it is still seems to leave a big gaping spot there. It mostly happens when I am doing cabling because the knit stitches are pulled so tight when they are being twisted. But I know that I should be able to fix it, I just don't know how.
I don't have any pictures sorry, soon I will post some FO's.

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.

Yay!!!

Well I finally finished Greg's black and orange hat. It turned out great. However I could not get him to model it for me in a picture so maybe next time. He said that he loves it. It looks really good on him (if I do say so myself). I used black and orange sport weight yarns. The black was regular acrylic red heart I think so that knit up nicely. Now the orange was a Kid 'n' Ewe (local brand) but I thought it was a bit thready for this type of project so I would suggest using it for things other than that. But here it is.

My mother-in-law liked Greg's hat so much that she asked if I would knit Mattix my nephew a new hat as he is grown out of his old one. She said she wanted lots of bright colors, so instead of choosing all those different yarns I just decided to go with the Red Heart Kids multi worsted weight yarn. It is soft enough that he won't find it itchy, which is great for toddlers. So here is the first side, somehow I got it doing a slow spiral and I just stuck with it.

Here is the second side, which doesn't look as good in this picture because of the brightness of the red. But trust me it is still really neat looking on this side as well. I think that he will really like it. I am not going to waist time on making Fallon a hat because she hates them with a passion.

I am halfway done with the second sock of the Kiwi socks. I am excited I really am on a roll, and I am finally finishing my projects. I have one more after this but it is sort of my travelling project so I am not fussed about finishing that right away. But the next project I want to cast on for is a pair of Wendy Johnson Socks, from her book, "Bavarian Cable socks" or I want to knit these socks from " The Big Book of Socks" by Kathleen Taylor, they are called Diamond Tracings socks. But back to work I go.

hooray

Well I finally finished the second sock. I frogged the heel 3 times, for some reason I just didn't like the way it kept turning out but now I am happy with it. I started the second sock 2 days ago and I now have a complete pair. I am now inspired to finish all the other pair less socks I have started. Like that kiwi cabled sock that I finished ages ago and I have been dreading the second sock because of all that cabling I have to do but maybe I will just get started on that later today. Here is also a picture of my niece from this weekend while she was eating mashed potatoes. She still hasn't grasped the utensil thing yet and since the bowl got left right where she could reach it she decided to dive right in.
Needless to say she needed a bath immediately. She was so cute before this she had her hair in little pig tails on top of her head and her little dress was so cute and clean. But I have to admit she does really seem to be enjoying herself immensely.
Well I will get to work on all those unfinished projects that I have just sitting around waiting for some attention.

Morning Walk

Well I went for a walk at about 6 yesterday. I took a couple of photos. Here is a couple... This first pic is of one of my mother in-law's roses. I took this one as I was walking out of the yard. This next photo is of the little bridge that I walk over to get to the trail. It was all covered with snow and ice. Good thing there is a railing, because one of the planks is got a wicked crack in it. This little bridge goes from one side of a little irrigation canal to the other. This photo is of the trail that I walk along the canal. It is nice and open out here, the neat thing is that I am still close to home because the trail curves around to behind our culdesac. The vegetation is all frosted but I liked the way the grass was leaning and sort of sparkling in the sun. I like the sound of the frost and ice crunching under my boots. I couldn't get a picture of it but. As I was walking I kept hearing a another crunching noise besides my own. Well I kept turning around thinking someone was on the trail with me or maybe there was an animal in the bushes. But when I finally found the source of the sound I just about fell down from laughing. In this backyard there was a trampoline and it was all covered in ice and snow, well when I took a closer look there was a German Wire hair dog just jumping on the trampoline. He wasn't on it with anyone, he was just out there all by his lonesome, but I think he liked the noise he was making while he was jumping around. Well I finished a sock from a totally different pair that I started (shame on me for falling into the SSS pattern) but here it is... It is colorway Banana Berry. There is a lime green, dark blue, sky blue and a yellow in there. This is a typical toe up sock but I just customized it to fit my foot. I don't have much more news than that other than I have started on the match to this sock.

Wrong all along

Well it turns out that I have been reading my favorite blogs and commenting and you know what I was signed in as my husbands google account from his work. So if any of you have a comment from Basin United its really me not my husband. I usually leave it on my sign in and he changed it and so I was unaware. OH well worst things could happen.
I have gotten a ways on my other sock I started... I would put a pic up except I just realized the batteries in my camera need to be charged and somehow my extras were stolen. Someone probably borrowed them. I am so excited Wandering Cat is sending me some yarn, I feel like its Christmas and I am waiting for a present in the mail. I don't know how long it takes to get from Ontario to Oregon but I am psyched. (Thanks Valerie).
Well I have so much stuff that I am working on but I can't take pictures so this is where I am going to leave off tomorrow or later today I will post up some pics. See ya...