Junie's Nippertails

Junie's Nippertails
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I made this hat for my youngest. The pattern is Nippertails. I used lamb's pride (white) and malabrigo in the Molly colorway. When I was done I needle felted some little snowflakes on the side. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Package from my Secret Pal

Let's start with the package from my Secret Pal. She sent this in October but I couldn't get pictures uploaded for awhile. Anyway, thank you to her! There are two skeins of knitpicks Superwash sock yarn and two circular needles in size one, which I don't have yet. There was also a pattern but I already filed that away in my knitting journal. Oh yeah, and there was a lot of candy in it too but that didn't last long.

Been forever since I blogged.....

Sorry to my SP for how quiet it has been over here. It has been a crazy few weeks with kids costumes, we closed on a house, were out of town, and our neighbor's dog killed our angora bunny. So, anyway, I have gotten a lot of knitting done. Well a lot for me anyway. I will post pictures of them as well as my first package from my SP! Sorry it has taken so long. I saw that my downstream pal, Pauline, has gotten her package. I'm so glad that she liked it. it was really fun and she is just lovely! OK, will be posting pictures ASAP!

fall dishcloth swap package from mimi

fall dishcloth swap package from mimi
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Here is my Fall Dishcloth Swap Package from Mimi! This was her first swap and I think she did a great job. I love it! The package was full of fun Halloween stuff like gel pens, pencils, stickers, tea lights and a note pad. The soap is a skull and crossbones. She knit a great bat dishcloth and included three skeins of cotton yarn in really pretty colorways. I've never seen this brand of cotton before but it looks nice. She also gave me two books of dishcloth patterns. She included a recipe for a veggie white bean chili which sounds awesome and maybe the best part was a bag of candy corns and jar of roasted peanuts. Put them together and you have the best Halloween treat! Thank you Mimi!

OOps, see below

This is the baby gift that I mentioned in the post below. Someday I will figure out how to do this blogging stuff!
Carrie's baby gifts
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Big Bad's new hat

big bad's new hat
Originally uploaded by megdoula

I have actually been knitting and finishing some projects but I am bad with the camera and the computer and have to rely on DH to get the pictures onto my laptop. It takes lots of reminding sometimes. But anyway here is a hat that my DH has been waiting for for a very long time and some baby gifts that I made for a friend of mine. The bib is from Mason-Dixon and the butterfly is form a book called "Knitting Toys"

Fall Dishcloth Swap Topic of the Week

Now that it is getting cooler here, it makes me think of apple picking and hay rides. Are you the type that likes to go to participate in all the fall festivities like apple picking, pumpkins, decorating for the fall, hay rides, baking fall goodies, etc. or do you just sit and count the days till Thanksgiving/Christmas/Hanukkah?

I do like to do most of the fall festivities. Yesterday we took the kids to a huge pumpkin patch that I thought would be fun for them. It had a corn maze, enchanted forest, goats, turkeys, camels (yes, the traditional fall camel) slides, fair type food, and tons of halloweeny things for sale. Oh yeah, and tons of people too. It was a little too commercial for me and definitely way too crowded. The older I get the less I tend to like crowds. Next year I think we'll stick to the old fashioned pumpkin patch sans camels!