In spite of the fact that I look pretty depressed I am bubbling with joy to have finished this sweater AND to have it fit just as it should! 😀 I think it tuned out very well indeed! I used some light worsted weight cormo wool that we dyed purple. It was supposed to be done for the Red Hat Xmas party but I didn’t make it. Oh well, I am really happy with it, in any case. This is the first lace thing I’ve done for myself and I give credit to my sister Rosy for getting me to try lace with the PI shawl and to the EZasPi list for lessons from Liz and encouragement from all the listers! I think I have learned more from this group than from any I’ve joined. Thank you!
Today I cast on with left-over purple, a cap pattern I found on the web, and it turned out to be based on the center motif from the Feather and Fan shawl from GOL, that I am knitting with thread as a table cloth. Irony::rolleyes: I put a plain center in my tablecloth as that one looked too difficult. I just realized that I had knit it in my cap quite easily! lol 😛

You can see the side front here, it is bolero length, short, but I don’t think it’s too bad. The back is plenty long for warmth without being heavy. I also think the sleeve turned out nicely with the stockinet stitch. Relieves the lace and even sets it off a bit.

:O Or, at least, the grouse should have stayed in the apple tree instead of flying at low altitude across highway 3 just at that dim time of evening as Randy was coming home from work. It would have been better for both of them. Randy wasn’t hurt, tho his truck windshield came off badly. Needless to say the grouse didn’t fair as well. He wasn’t even sure it was a grouse, he saw a streak of grey for a fraction of a second and later found a couple of grey down feathers. About the only birds big enough to do that would be a grouse or an owl, could have been either. Tho now that I think about it, the owl does seem more likely at that time of night.
Well, it means a trip to town but could have been worse. A friend rolled her station wagon loaded with wash tubs of blackberries for canning when she got an owl some years ago. They were unhurt but there were mashed blackberry’s everywhere! :blush:

My version of Jana’s Loom Bloom done on the Tiny Weaver Square loom. I think it turned out just as cute as hers! I’m going to make several to make a large corsage to wear at the Red Hat Christmas party. It’s easy to do, all you have to do is run a gather stitch both ways through the center of the square to gather it toward the center. It takes two colored ones and one green one for the leaves. Work french knots for the center or sew beads there, put a pin back or safety pin on behind and there you are! 😀

About the only time Cori is a lap dog is when the coyotes are singing. I don’t always hear them but she never misses. She’ll growl and run for ‘daddy’s’ lap. Last week when Rosy was here she got the lap dog! It’s the chair furthest from the door. lol Jack, the outside dog, dosen’t worry about them. Well, he’s Rhodesian Ridgeback and St. Barnard and sleeps in his dog house in the wood shed. He does get excited about the bear when that one comes around. The cats are safe indoors this time of year. But they make a cute couple, don’t they?! :laugh:

😀 Well, This set took second prize in the large projects part of the lace knitting contest and that got me $50 worth of Goodies Unlimited ( http://www.goodiesunlimited.com )which I think a pretty good deal. That is my life-sized baby doll wearing the hat and sweater I made in the Shetland lace workshop. It was fun and I learned a lot. I learned, mostly, that I CAN do lace! 🙂 Now I’m racing to get my Far East Peacock Bolero finished in time for the Red Hat Champagne Brunch Christmas party. But I’ve got a feeling that I’m not going to make it. 😦 Oh well… at least it’ll be done by next Christmas. 🙄

We are getting back on schedule after the funeral and family and should have all the present loom orders ready to ship by Monday. Randy says he’s got a few ahead now, too. We’re being told that there’s another storm coming in next weekend… we’ll see. We all know how good they are at long range prediction! lol But it will give him more shop time, if so. That’s always good! 😛

Not the first snow but the first one that’s likely to stay around. I forgot to bring in my socks last night and it looks like they’ll be dripping behind the wood stove today! Well, Elsie (sister from Florida), do you still want tro stay in a tent in the yard? 😉

Washing a fleece in the washing machine is supposed to be soak and spin, but if you don’t pay attention you get full cycle and a big felted boa! So then what? Darned if I was going to toss half a fleece, but these things will lead to INSPIRATION! 💡
Carefully washed the other half and spun it up worsted weight and wove 4 14″ triangles which I then made into a poncho. I single crocheted my way around the boa and crocheted it to the triangles. Added the beads and feathers and… well there it is! Jessica pronounced it “Cool” and I have to say, it looks good on her. It might look good on a Mountain Man, too! I’m ashamed to admit it :blush: but I have two more “boas” in my stash! :laugh:

This poncho is up on ebay now, if anyone likes it better than i do!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5451631595

Well, it’s probably not Smokey. I expect it’s SPI (Sierra Pacific Industries) doing “controlled burns”. Hopefully. We’ve had a good rain so the woods are wet but that doesn’t keep things from smelling like smoke. Well, at least it smells better than my neighbors trash pile earlier this week! 😦 But it made quite a dramatic picture. That’s Coffee Creek in front looking south toward the East Fork, for those of you familiar with our neck of the woods.
It got down to 31 degrees last night but was sunny and bright today. No snow in sight so it looks like it’s going to be a dry Thanksgiving. Maybe we’ll get the leaves raked! 😛