Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Getting to Know You...Christmas edition

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!! Change all the answers so that they apply to you.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? For Christmas usually wrapping paper, Birthdays I tend to gift bag it.
2. Real tree or Artificial? I don't really have room for a tree, but I if I did it would be Artificial. Real ones make me sneeze.
3. When do you put up the tree? As above no big tree, I do have a small tree that lives on top of my TV stand.
4. When do you take the tree down? The little tree stays up year round.
5. Do you like eggnog? Ewwww, hell no!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Benita, my Cabbage Patch Kid.
7. Hardest person to buy for? Erik & Michael because you can never be sure they won't buy it for themselves before Christmas.
8. Easiest person to buy for? Mom
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I usually give out a few of each
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I can't think of anything bad.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Muppet Family Christmas
13. When do you start shopping? I keep my eye open for gifts all year and then start planning and purchasing in October normally.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not yet.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Sugar Cookies
16. Lights on the tree? It wouldn't be a Christmas Tree without lights.
17. Favorite Christmas song? Good King Wencelas
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Kinda both, I travel from my home to my family home for Christmas.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Prancer, Vixen, and Rudolph.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Nothing is on top of the little tree, it spins so ornaments would fly off.
21. Open the presents Christmas morning? Of course, when we were little we could open one of Christmas Eve but apparently now we're old enough to wait.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? How crazy the stores get.
23. Favorite ornament, theme or color? I collect hockey ornaments and I dream of one day having a tree covered in knitted and hockey decorations.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and brussel sprouts.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Getting to spend time with my favourite baby on her first Christmas.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

This is the baby sweater I mentioned finishing back in January. Tyson, the second cousin it was destined for was born in the middle of February at the hospital in town and I got to visit with him, his parents and grandparents when he was just two days old. Ashlee and Dan liked the present so much that they put Tyson in it right away even though the sweater is at least a six month size.

Tyson wearing the sweater as a blanket


Sweater laid flat


Close up of the navy buttons

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

I finished my first pair of socks from the yarn that I got for my birthday last year. I decided to start with the gorgeous blue and green Fleece Artist yarn. I ended up using my regular Wendy's toe-up pattern and 60 stitches around in plain stockinette. My first attempt (or first few attempts) were to try the Azure socks but the pattern was lost in the colours so I changed to a plain sock. For the first time I used a picot hem instead of ribbing at the top of the sock and I'm really happy with how it turned out, it's definitely a technique that I will be using again. The Fleece Artist yarn is just as beautiful knit up as it was in the skein and it's sproinginess (what, it's totally a word) made it great to knit.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Last fall I bought ONline Linie 149 Rush to make a scarf with to match my winter jacket. When the Yarn Harlot published the Unoriginal Hat pattern I decided that a hat and scarf would be better. I started with the hat and finished it within 24 hours of starting on a hockey road trip. Next I worked on the scarf, which took longer because I needed to pause to buy more yarn, using the larger of the hat cables in the middle and the smaller cable on each edge. The hat could be a tiny bit longer, but it keeps my head and the tips of my ears warm. The set got some wear during the few days of snow in February and worked perfectly. Mom liked how my hat turned out so much that she got the same yarn in a different colourway and made one for herself.

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

I made myself another pair of slippers, using a different pattern to give myself a break from my standard "Grandma's Slipper" pattern. I found the Ridiculously Easy Mary Jane Slippers on Ravelry and I finished them in one day while laying sick on the couch. They're basically a rectangle with shaping at the end. The two strands of Red Heart I used ended up with a bigger gauge so I cast on less stitches than called for and I left off the strap (so I can take them on and off more easily). The slippers are okay but they've stretched out quite a bit and no longer like to stay on my feet.

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