I am spending the Thanksgiving holiday puttering and futzing around the house. I'm knitting, reading (finished 2 books, now am on the third!), and wrapping up home projects. Oh, and there's been napping and shopping too! Ah, the life of leisure.


First, another finished Helena. This one is for a friend's little preemie girl who is doing very well and will hopefully be home by Christmas.

Project specs: Cascade Yarns' Cotton Rich DK in color 1457 (cantaloupe) on #6 and #2 needles. Project mods: only 5 lace repeats, a picot front edge, and no ties. This pattern is so much fun and fast gratification. I think all my friends should only have girl babies so I can knit this for them.

I also finished my Christmas knitting. These tawashies are going to be gifted with handmade soaps.

Project specs: Circular Scrubby knit in Cotton Rich DK and Wildflower DK remnants from the stash. Another fun, fast project as well as a stashbuster.

The current car project is a comfort shawl for Fletcher Allen's Breast Cancer Center. If you are interested in how you can knit for the Center, post in the comments and I'll get you the information. So far, I've have 5 people from Rav's VT Knitters show interest.

And here's what's next up on the needles. mmmmcashmeremmmm.

Peace and Quiet

Is something I don't have right now because the CattyHome is undergoing some construction. Our landpeople are adding an addition that will include new office space for the CattyLandlord and a sunroom/wave pool (which will hopefully be open to the CattyTenants.) Today's scheduled events are a bit screwed up, so I think we will spend the rest of our day in quieter locales. But first a little knitting content:

Here's a Helena for the newest female baby in my world. I do love knitting this pattern: it's fast, interesting, and turns out beautifully. I'm knitting it with the same mods I did for Jayda's Helena: no ties, picot edging up the front, and only 5 lace pattern repeats.

I also finished Gareth's Christmas Stocking. This project was a gift for a friend: I needed to created a Christmas stocking for a new member of the family by replicating one of their current stockings. Color knitting combined with acrylic yarn was not my first choice - or even second - but I think they will happy with the results.

Since it's a rainy, cool day here, I think we are off to the bookstore for coffee and quiet. And while I'm there, I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick up this.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.

Hey! Happy End-of-Daylight-Savings-Time! Upcoming-Election-Day!
First-of-November! Day-After-Halloween!

I've been a busy knitting girl - see?

Mom's birthday is Election Day, so to celebrate she's getting some requested dishclothes (yeah, I snuck in a tribute to the blue states.) Project specs: Pisgah's Peaches & Creme Cotton in the Pink Lemonade colorway done on #7 Addis and Aunt Lydia's Kitchen Cotton leftover from BYOB done on #4 Addis. The pattern is the Kitchen Cotton dishcloth from Dishcloth Boutique's website (however, the linky seems to be broken).

But before the dishcloths, I finished my Tonks socks. I love them: in fact I have them on right now. Project specs: guess what pattern using 1 skein of Opal's Harry Potter yarn in the Tonks colorway on #2 Inox needles.

The house projects keep rolling along: this month, it's the kitchen closet. This little space is under the stairs to our third floor. It's awkward and odd. My plan is to paint it with the leftover blue from the bathroom and then install wire shelving which should give us more space and make everything easier to access.

And it hasn't been all work: the CatMan and I have been enjoying the fall colors right outside our door!