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Knitting and a Present

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Do you ever have days that seem gray and ‘blah’ for want of a better word? Today was one of those days. I had thought of all sorts of errands I should run – was planning on tackling them early in the day – but I just couldn’t get motivated enough to do them. It was gray and cold and cloudy here. All day. I’d better get used to it, because there will be many more to come this winter.

Some of you might remember a post where I showed this:


It is a scarf I’m knitting out of Noro yarn. Alas, it hasn’t progressed much with all the other distractions going on here. I pulled it out yesterday and started working on it again. I love this colorway of self-striping yarn. The pattern is one my sister showed me over a year ago.


Try as I might, I can’t get the photograph true to color. The salmon color is more of a raspberry and the blue is deeper with more aqua in it. Perhaps I left it too late in the day to photograph properly. I’ll try again when I have completed more of it – and in the daylight.

My day brightened considerably when I found this in the mail:


I won a giveaway at Loveleigh Treasures. Sares is a wonderful person, with a beautiful blog. She had a giveaway and the winners got a Christmas movie. I picked my favorite. Shall we see what it is?


It’s a Wonderful Life! That sweet Sares added some hot chocolate and popcorn – perfect for a December evening. Thank you, Sares…we love having our own commercial-free copy of this great movie. I’m a big Frank Capra fan, by the way. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, It Happened One Night…they are some of my all-time favorites. They all make me cry – no matter how many times I’ve watched them.

Right after I posted this, husband and I discovered that It Happened One Night was on TCM that evening! We watched it, of course.

Things I like on a Sunday morning

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Sitting on the sofa with a cup of French Roast ~ reading a wonderful novel. Hearing the birds singing away outside and realizing that their ever-present song will be coming back to my home in New York very soon. Watching the cloudy morning skies give over to glorious sunshine.

Gazing at the beautiful roses I bought at Trader Joes the other day. They are tiny, in different shades of pink and cream that delicately color the buds ~ they look like candy.


My Trader Joes tote ~ aren’t the colors wonderful? So cheerful ~ the graphics are splendid.


My “Knitting Muse” ~ my sister has one like this and I admired it on my last trip to Florida. When Don was here, we explored a little shop here called Grove that has all my favorite things: books, fabric, yarn, paintings, clothing, jewelry. I remarked that if I was going to open a shop, Grove would be exactly what I’d go for. I bought some earrings, some Amy Butler fabric, and at the register I saw this! Meant to be. Now if I could just get knitting again, all would be perfect.

I hope your Sunday is a good one. I have some work to do at the computer for school. I also am attending a matinee of a musical, Working, currently playing at the Globe. I did a little dialect work with two of the actors and both of my current downstairs neighbors are in it.

More later.

Chilly mornings = knitting

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The last few days have brought a chill to the air. I wake up in the morning and I feel like I need slippers and a little shawl to wrap around me while I drink my coffee. And even though I said I only wanted to crochet, I have been obsessing about knitting. I’ve been looking through books and magazines admiring all the great patterns. As I am about to go out of town again, this time for work, I need a project to have on hand for down time at the hotel(s). I was looking through a book and found a bulky knit sweater that should knit up rather quickly. Finding super bulky yarn locally took a bit of work but I found this:
The yarn is Burly Spun by Brown Sheep and the pattern is in Simple Chic by Jill Eaton. Its just your basic oversize V-neck pullover. These may be a bit bulky to pack….oh, oh. Here’s the sweater:

We’ll see how it goes. I’ll try to post again before I go on Sunday.

More later.

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