I'm trying to convince myself that this background looks like lace.  Does it?

I'm also debating going back to blogger.  *sigh*

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...It's a farmhouse.  Get it?

*sigh*

I have to update this today.

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Anne Shirley

The loveable redhead of "Anne of Green Gables." Anne lives on Prince Edward Island, and never ceases to astonish it's inhabitants. She's a writer, matchmaker, and can generally be found getting into some scrape or the other. Gilbert Blythe, one of her dearest friends, is in love with her, but she refuses to see it for many years.

Which Classic Heroine are You?

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"I am digging in the stash for these, some Red Heart (the highest in washability, you can't kill the stuff) in an odd green tween I got to make a sweater for a former...well, let's not go there"

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Tween?  Tween?  What on earth is tween?  Do you meant to tell me I've had a typo up since before Christmas and never noticed?

Tweed.  It's a dark, green tweed....

Sigh.  More later.

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So, I want to knit something, now that the headband will be off the needles tonight.  I was at first thinking lace, but I still have needlepoint to work on, and stacks of sewing projects, and lace does take my attention.  So I'm thinking of getting the Knit Your Bit scarves out of the way.  Besides, then I can get them out of the way before we go to Denver.

I am digging in the stash for these, some Red Heart (the highest in washability, you can't kill the stuff) in an odd green tween I got to make a sweater for a former...well, let's not go there.  Anyway, I have three skeins of the stuff, so I should be able to get something out of it.

Now, the question of pattern arises...

The 2006 Knit Your Bit scarves are very dashing...

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But I don't know that I have anything for the stripe, and that is an awful lot of garter stitch.  If I wanted to do that much I'd work on my sweater.

There is the Mistake Rib scarf, from Mason-Dixon knitting, it's the third photo down, which has possibilities.  But a ribbed scarf?  Hmmmmm...

And then there is the One Row scarf by the Yarn Harlot  Which looks like it might do well tweedy, but that stitch requires a lot of traditional stitching, and I am an oddly exotic duck.

Decisions, decisions.  OK, I'm going with the One Row first.   I have three skeins I want out of my stash, I may well try all three.

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I was going to make my Mother-in-law a bag for Christmas.  The same pattern as the one fro the GIL, the Miranda bag, but with a cats theme.  Yea, add in a drs appointment and the quest for new glasses and I am just out of time. 

But she did ask for casserole covers

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And they do have a cat theme

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Cats on the top, paw prints on the bottom.  I'll make up the bag and take them out to her in January.  I also made the FIL knitted slippers, but I'm not going to share them, I think.  I'll decide later if I like them that much or not.

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First off, and finally, mittens for the Soaring Eagles Project

Mittens

Those two on the top were experiments.  Now they are heading to the tree,  As a wise man once said  "If I put it on the tree, it's an ornament".  I started with Gifted mittens, by Katie Gilbert, and the pinkandpurple ones (the standard girl color) follows it.  But when I went to do the orange ones, I realized my gauge was way the hell off.  In something a lot close to the right gauge I disliked the main seam, but I still love her thumb.   So I got her pattern to work in the round.  And now I swear I will never do mittens any other way again.

My second finished object of the night (I have yet to go to bed, it's still night) is the Miranda bag, from Lazy Girl Designs.  It's a gift for my Grandmother-in-law

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Who thankfully does not read this blog.  And no, I am not a cruel woman, she has a thing for frogs.  The main fabric there is from the In The Bog collection by Anne Ormsby.  The trim was picked up at Jo-Ann's, because I refused to spend $9.00 a yard for trim.  And besides, they were out of the rest of it at the quilt shop.

I do want one of these for myself.  I mean, look at how this thing opens up.

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We're talking perfect knitting bag.  Now if I can just figure out how to get a zipper into the thing.

I'll keep you posted.

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And it looks interesting.  So here goes.  But before I start, I finally got the mittens to work, so a knitting post will be forthcoming.

So the idea is to put the answer into Google Images, and then pick an image from the first page of results.

1)

1.  Age at next birthday

2.  A place you’d like to travel:

3.  Your favorite place:

4. Your favorite objects:

5. Your favorite food:

6.  Your favorite animals:

7. Your favorite color:

8.  Town where you were born:

9.  Town where you live:

10. Name of a past pet

11.  First name of your true love:

12.  Best friend’s nickname:

13.  Your nickname/screenname/online persona/avatar

14.  Your first name:

15. Your middle name:

16.  Your last name: (since it's not my legal one)

17. Bad habit of yours:

18.  First job:

19: Grandmother’s name:

20.  College major: Dual major

and

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The in-laws have come and gone, an event which almost merits it's own post.  Tomorrow is my day at the hospital fundraiser, which will also merit it's own post.  And as for projects I've been working on mittens for the Soaring Eagles Project, which is over with the buttons.  Mittens that just won't quite gel, drat it all.  Which is why I haven't been here, and why this post is so short, I really must knit.

More soon.

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A good thing:  Being able to call it quits when you want to.

I've been keeping to my goal of one ornament finished a day - until today.  My body aches, my head aches, I'm exhausted, I cannot, cannot, look at another fiddly piece of felt.  I'm done, I give, no more.  I'm taking a break.  If those two reindeer round ornaments go up a few days after the rest of the tree, so be it.

Sweater_ornaments

Everything else is done.  Tomorrow I'll start on the calico stars I want, but I think I may cheat.  I may just...use the sewing machine.

A bad thing:  Starbucks coffee

Being a day between checks and out of beans, and not willing to pull from savings for a pound of coffee, I used the gift card to pick up a pound of Sumata from Starbucks.  Extra bold, thick and rich, so it said.  My ass.  I used my regular amount, 1/3 of a cup beans to the #8 line on the pot, and ground it fine.  I ended up with flavored cream by the time I was done.  I swear I brew my tea stronger than that. 

And to top it off I had to be up at 6:45 yesterday to take the hubbo to the dentist, which meant I was up at 8:30 this morning.  Couple being off my usual schedule, as much as I might prefer this one for the holidays, with a serious lack of caffeine, and my behind is not keeping up.  Tomorrow I mix the last of the good stuff with the weak, in the hopes of making something drinkable, the hubbo will pick up more of the good stuff on his way to work.

And I'm off to knit mittens for the Soaring Eagles project.  Later, wolflings.

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