Christmas Sweater 2007

Christmas Sweater 2007
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Isn't he too cute. I made this for Andrew's Christmas gift.

Christmas 2007 socks

Christmas 2007 socks
Originally uploaded by picking2gogranny

This is the yarn Courtney gave me for Christmas.

New Photo

Here I am with balloons from my birthday party last Oct. My daughter helped me with that pictures. Now I just need to get the other photos uploaded.

Distractions

What a day ahead! It's a trip to the Bay Area to see my daughter and her husband. She's my baby and will be 28 this Wednesday. I made her a shurg out of the prettiest yarn called Zara by Filatura Di Crosa. Yes I made a few mistakes, but it is still beautiful. Hopefully, one of these days I'll get it attached so that you can view it. I was trying to complete the shurg by Christmas 2007, so I made it in March for her birthday.
As I said, I'm planning to trip on down to the Bay Area and it's 11am and I am sitting here and not preparing to get ready. Oh well, we'll leave a little later.
I also just finished my grandson's baby jacket made with Opal yarn. He is due in April. I want to make a hat and booties, but we'll see about time. I have pictures for the jacket, and hopefully that will get here on the same day as the other projects started and finished.

February 25, 2008

Well, here it is, almost 5pm and still I have not got dinner on. I would rather be here sitting at the computer writing and telling everyone what a great time I had on Friday with Janice and the hundreds of yarno's at Stitches. I don't know what I was thinking it would be like. The yarn was soo beautiful I wanted to take it all home with me, but sanity won over. I wanted a home to keep it in. Purchasing too much would have meant yarn without a home. I was told by a wise one to have a plan in mind. I made it. It was to buy sock yarn. I couldn't get into to much trouble right? I bought some Brooks Farm finger weight and a pattern called Knitting Fairy. It is a swinging summer shell for girls. I want to make this for my granddaughter's birthday in September. She shouldn't out grow the pattern for a few more years, so I do have some time to make it. For my new grandson to be born in April, I bought a top down cardigan pattern and cotton Tweed DK from Cabin Fever. I also had to have the buttons to match. I couldn't resist the Socks that Rock yarn and yarn from Pigeonroof Studios for socks. I was also able to pick up some plain yarn, 1 pink variegated and 1 green,brown, and blue variegated yarn on sale. The woman with the eye helped me find one of the yarns I went for, Opal. It was in a sale bend just sitting there waiting to be taken home. I forgot one important item, a blocking board. Yes, I decided my thumbs and my husbands thumbs needed a break and went ahead and got the puzzle pieces to make the board. I can't wait to try it out. Oh my gosh. Remember when I said I went with a plan, well I wanted a Jorana Paige bag ever since I saw one. Janice and I stopped there before wen did any real shopping and coveted. We returned to the scene of the crime and each purchased one. I got the Bella, black licorice. It's wonderful.