Another Willow for Warmth

Another Willow Cowl.

This time using a sock weight yarn.

A lovely addition to a winter wardrobe.

Gifted, so I guess a third version

will be in the works.

hugs

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Stop for A Quick Ice Cream Treat

Is there any place better than Central Dairy

for a quick taste of your favorite treat?

Whether a small dish of Extreme Moose Tracks

or

a healthy Banana Split !

Who could resist the temptation???

hugs

♥ ♥ ♥

REDdy for Winter

How 'bout a pair of really, really red House Sox for

a frigid December-January!!

You're right if you are thinking you've seen

this yarn before,

still haven't cast on the socks.

But with the weather about to turn more

wintery it may be about time to get busy.

*See Footnote below

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Red's a holiday color

just perfect for a mixer who beats and mixes

for our pleasure.

Think Sugar Cookies in shapes of

bells, wreaths and snowmen ! ! !

<^><^><^><^>

A Red cardigan will be perfect to wear

Christmas, New Years and right on through to Valentine's Day

Cupid's favorite color

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*Footnote

provided by Keds

hugs

♥  ♥  ♥

Ready for Winter

Let's start with warm feet!

Began this pair of wooly-wooly sox on a round loom

very early 2008.

Put them aside when I began knitting sox

2-at-a-time on 40" circular needle

thanks to my friend Dianna and the inspiration she sent my way.

Came across the unfinished pair

[knit right up to the point of toe decreases]

so last night put them on a Size 10 needles

and finished them this afternoon.

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We had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration here.

I hope you did as well.

Our two daughters prepared our

holiday feast.

Between their labor and my 'supervision' 

Just kidding about my supervision.

We enjoyed a dee-lish meal.

Afterward, the four of us here in mid-MO

had a Google Hangout [video chat]

with 

and my older brother in Colombia, South America

and my youngest brother and his wife in the mountains of Southern California.

How much fun was that ! ! ! ! ! 

Just a terrific Thanksgiving, ever.

+ *+*+*+

Yep,

Now we are enjoying leftovers.

YUM-Meee

How 'bout you?

Are you feasting on leftovers as well?

hugs

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Something(s) Blue

 Inkwell

 This month's Cookie A Sock Club 2013's shipment.

Haven't decided which of Cookie A's patterns will

be cast on with this oh, so, beautiful blue,

but, you can believe that my feet will be pampered with this lovely.

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The Loopy Ewe is celebrating their 7th Anniversary.

TLE originally opened in St. Louis

and recently moved her operation to

Fort Collins, Colorado.

In celebration of seven years as a small business owner,

Sheri, owner of TLE, 

asked Malabrigo Yarn Company dyers to come up with a very special colorway. 

Their dyers  created this colorway that, IMHO, reminds me of blue jeans.

They named this blue in tribute to Sheri by naming this special anniversary celebration yarn after her.

How cool is that ! ! !

  

Sheri commissioned a shawl pattern created for this particular yarn.

 

 Pattern to be available only by purchasing this

 7th Anniversary Celebration Kit

of yarn and pattern.

Beautiful Blues ! ! !

Overnite we received some much needed rain.

Lost power during the very, very early morning hours,

but have been up and running 

ever since.

Today is Humpday

week's half over

as is September

hugs

♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥

Willow

First a reminder.

Each and Every one of your comments are appreciated and anticipated.

I l♥ve hearing from you.
And I do reply of each of you

right here on the blog.

I 'Reply' to your comment right here
on this blog post

just below your own comment.

If you're interested,

there are a couple of ways to read my reply.

One way is to come back to this post at a later date to check if I've reply yet.

A more convenient way, IMHO,
is to take advantage of a very cool feature.

Google Blogspot has this dandy feature that allows

Comments and Replies to this particular post to arrive right in your email inbox.

This option is located just beneath the message text box -

it's the subscribe by email button.

When Comments and Replies cease

so will the arrivals to your inbox

or

this feature can be unsub-ed via each message as it arrives.

Don't forget,

you, too, can reply to any blog comment or reply.

Don't be bashful :*)

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Willow Cowl

is a free pattern on Ravelry

click HERE

My Willow

is knit with Hazel Knits Yarn

in the Entice base:

Merino Wool, Cashmere, Nylon

I combined two gorgeous colors -

Land of Sweets

and Tropical Sunrise.

So soft, so cuddly.

I ABsoLUTeLY AdORe it ! ! ! ! 

It uses a skein of fingering weight yarn

I knit it in a little over a week.

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OMG, look hashtags ! ! 

I am on Instagram as GerryART

Have a loverly week ♥♥♥

hugs

back to the fiber-y goodness

Labor

Finished and Blocked !!

Ready for cooler weather. 

A wonderful blend of

Soft Merino Wool, Cashmere, Silk

Hand-Crafted Soap

by my friend Joanne

A cotton Spa Cloth

knit with natural cotton from Peru

Willow Cowl

knit with Hazel Knits Yarn

blend of Merino, Cashmere, Nylon

Colors Land of Sweets and Tropical Sunrise

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Fantastic weather.

Fun weekend/holiday

hugs

♥

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After

After finishing knitting and blocking

my Camp Loopy Project Three

Challenge was met.

Challenge being: knit any project using 800 yds

Here's my Gray Garden Shawl

designed by Anne Hansen

as it is blocking

I met the challenge PLUS 65 yards

for a total of 865 yards of

Shalimar Breathless

in Waterchestnut colorway

YAAA Hooo

There will be glamour shots shortly

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After dinner

there was time for some

'mindless' knitting

Isn't this colorful ! ! ! ! 

Sugar n Cream cotton in Rainbow colorway

Perhaps the beginning of  a Spa Basket 

for gifting in the upcoming months????

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Well Kids,

Summer has arrived 

here in mid-Missouri

Not terribly hot and miserable

but definitely WARM.

With lots of big clouds masking Mr Sol

giving relief from his intense attempt to fry everything.

Sat outside knitting another spa cloth for almost an hour but did not break a sweat.

So I am happy as can be with our Summer weather.

Take care ! ! ! !

Remember

theme for the next week

- -

Water and Sun Screen

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hugs

♥

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Red Worsted

Is this RED or What ! ! ! ! ! 

This red worsted weight yarn is just the match for a blog post I read last week.
It was 

Susan B Anderson's post

How I Make Worsted Weight Socks !

Guess what's on deck!

Just in time for the holidays coming up.

Btw, how is Christmas shopping coming along??

Oh,

did you notice

this yarn 
is

RED
!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looky, it's a Loopy Ewe and a flock of little Loopys

Too-cute tape measure and stitch markers.

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe thinks of every thing for knitters.

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Temp is beginning to creep into August
Low 90s
however, I did hear mention of rain
for Friday and overnight into Saturday.
We could use a inch or so.
How 'bout you?

hugs


 ♥

Gotta Loves

Gotta love Joann's Half Price Shelves

Saw these boxes on 

Hotazzknitter's Instagram post the other day.

Nicole aka Hotazzknitter, 

has a video podcast

Positively Knitting

that I thoroughly enjoy.

Wouldn't miss an episode for anything.

If you're into Positive-ity then

she's your gal.

Click on her link above.

Her Instagram post was truly enabling.

Couldn't resist.

Our local Joann's has a pretty good selection

and I've got mine.

It is summer time.

Even if the temps don't feel like it

soft serve ice cream is still

on the agenda.

Triple Berry Brownie - Midnite Truffle

yummmmm

Here I am doing what I love to do in the evening

or at any time for that matter.

One-at-a-time ! ! !   

Toe Up.

One Size #0 needle ! ! 

Just about ready for the heel.

No hurry on this one

just a little change of pace from my Camp Loopy projects.

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Are there signs of Autumn in your neighborhood?

hugs

♥  ♥  ♥  ♥

Hello, Autumn ???

Couldn't believe our eyes when we parked at Dairy Queen Tuesday afternoon.

Do ya see it???  

There it is ! ! 

An Autumn-Red leaf ! ! ! ! ! ! 

Could we experience an early Autumn???

Our backyard Sycamores

are dropping their leaves

already.

???????

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Yesterday afternoon

while leaving Barnes & Noble

we were treated to this view.

This past week's sky has been

filled with puffy whites

displayed

against a cerulean backdrop.

Completely Wonderful ! ! ! 

While at the beauty salon this afternoon getting my haircut

My hair stylist was just opening her UPS shipment

of

just-premiering

 O.P.I. fall collection of autumn color nail polish

I immediately fell for these three beauties

[and who wouldn't?]

Took them straight from the shipping box before anyone else could.

Here they are

that are front and center

on my makeup vanity.

Embarca-Dare-Ya,

In The Cable Car-Pool Lane,

First Date At The Golden Gate

Yep, you guessed it,

all referenced to San Francisco. 

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My haircut

I must be happy with the prospect of the hand-knitwear season arriving.  

: ^ )

hugs

♥ ♥ ♥

Mother

Mother's Love

♥

August 1915  -  October 1999

In My Heart

Always

♥♥

Shop Hop Soxes, Etc.

Sox knit with the yarn we picked up in Mexico,

Missouri

during our Quilt Shop Hop last month.

These were a pretty darn fast knit, considering:

a.] they were knit on Size #2 needles

as compared to the quite a bit smaller Size #0 that I have been using recently;

b.] combined these two pair used 534 yards ! ! ! ! ! 

That's a lotta yards

~ .3 of a mile

Gloria's

These were knit

2-At-A-Time

on one 40" circular needle

Toe Up

using a Gusset Heel

and a Ribbed Leg/Cuff

Debbie's with a very t-a-l-l cuff

During the same period Hubby's Hell Fire, Once Again

sox were finished and bound off !

Again, knit toe up, 

this time with Afterthought Heels. 

Using small sized needle,

this pair used 316 yards.

With such a tight fabric

as the result of using small needle size

these should last a very long time.

So fun to knit ! ! ! 

Here they are 

Soxes from the Shop Hop for the girls

and Sox for Hubby

Temp here is below 80 degrees F

today

Great temp for an August day.

Even had a small rain shower.

hugs

♥♥♥♥♥

whoops, do I spy a dropped stitch in the cuff?