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Just popping in to say hi and hope that you're having a fun and restful holiday with family and friends. The photo above is Christmas dinner dessert at my sister's - ginger cakes with chocolate ganache drizzled on top - definitely the highlight of my day. I probably won't be back until the New Year so best wishes to you all. Now back to drinking coffee, wiping runny noses, and assembling pirate ships!
The whale cardigan is coming along. I am up to the armholes so have started sleeve number one. Last night, it took me three cast-ons to realize I had grabbed dpn's three sizes too large. Um, yeah.
Spent the afternoon at my sister's "in the countryside" as Ollie likes to put it. Hercules the horse loves a pat on the nose, the old barn is leaning a little more, the apple tree is bare and the birds have eaten all the suet!
These are gifts for my niece and nephew. Pattern is Diane Soucy's Children's Mukluk Slippers with 8-stitch cable owl motif for the instep. I used Jakobsdals Othello (40% wool, 40% acrylic and 20% alpaca) held double on 4.5mm needles.
The pattern is simple and the slippers are quick to knit up with only one seam to be sewn at the middle of the sole. The instep is completed with short rows and then the cuff is worked in the round - easy, thank goodness 'cuz I had to knock these out fast; I'm trying so hard to get this finished for O in time.
Even though it's obviously not real ice and snow, the frozen dacha from Dr. Zhivago is still, for me, one of the most beautiful image sequences in film.
I can hear the bells on the sleigh as they approach the house, a beautiful combination of humble and grand architecture.
Some more dachas (although not frozen):
I finally cast on this week for Ollie's whale sweater. He originally wanted dolphins and I tried hard to come up with a decent chart for those but sperm whales work so much better and he's excited about that. Sadly, I won't have it ready for Christmas since the Stroll Sport I ordered from Knit Picks got lost in the vortex that is the Canadian postal system. Anyways, I've got it now and knitting this is really fun! I'm trying to do one stripe of colour per evening until things get too crazy holiday-wise.
The sweater pattern is Mandy Powers' "I Heart You".
Ravelry page is here.
I am so loving Pinterest these days. Having a place to plop all things practical, helpful and inspiring is genius. My pins are here if you want to take a boo. Let's follow each other!
