Christmas Knitting Already
Andy and I moved in to our new house a little less than three weeks ago, and we’re settling in nicely. We haven’t done very much remodeling-type work or bought very much decor yet, although we have been gifted a LOT of furniture. A higher-up at work happened to be moving at the same time as us, and gave us some really nice furniture, including a nice solid coffee table, two side chairs, a great bench that we’ve placed at the end of our bed, and bar stools for our island in the kitchen. Wow, we are so fortunate. Also, Andy’s parents had a leather sectional that they wanted to replace, and so it is in our living room with those two club chairs that I bought. In addition to the chairs, the only thing we have purchased is fireplace glass. It is used in gas fireplaces in lieu of boring old ceramic logs. The flames come up through the glass and it looks fab.
On the crafting front, I wrote a brimmed beanie crochet pattern for Urban Fauna Studio, and it was posted on Craftzine today! Very exciting =).
Great Aunt Bettie and I went to lunch and the LYS on Sunday. We always have a lot of fun together. Hi Aunt Bettie! (Forgive the blurry picture - iPhone picture taken by the LYS lady.)
I bought some Cascade 220 wool to knit Christmas stockings for Andy and me. I am making a very simple pattern with not so simple intarsia colorwork. I found some cool images of birds and placed grids over them and tweaked them in Photoshop to make the color pattern. The biggest hurdle so far was wanting to use enough stitches to get decent detail on the birds, but not having to use tiny needles and light weight yarn. So last night, after more than a week of planning, I cast on 120 stitches with the worsted Cascade 220, and will lightly felt the finished stockings. I have a feeling that the felting will make the birds look even better by smoothing the transitions between colors. Let’s hope I’m right.
I haven’t been this excited about a craft project since working on my fair purse.
Hopefully I can upload some pictures this weekend - we’re having issues with the internet at the new house.
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Awesome write-up, really! I really love this time of the year!