Teddy Tuesday

Last Wednesday it was brrrrr cold, windy, raining downpours and gloomy as Guss outside. So I got in the baking groove and baked a pound cake for a lady who's husband passed away this summer. She is like me in that she's very emotional and will be grieving a long time. I also was given a prayer shawl to go along with the pound cake to take her and cheer her up a little. I used her recipe that she had put in a church cookbook. She seem delighted when I told her the cake was from her recipe. This one, I must say, did turn out yummy!

And Teddy's wearing a sweater in this picture, because we didn't have any heat Monday morning because our heat pump's motor had worn out and we had to have it serviced. It was a Sam sweater and you should have seen Louie jump down from the couch and sniff it up and down on Teddy. Louie didn't seem to mind and we were all three comforted with Teddy wearing it. He wore it all day and he seemed to like it.
I think this is a cute picture and wanted to share my Teddy Bear with you all.

I'm going to "try" to get some mitered blocks added to my blankie today. Say a blessing for me. Hugs to you all, my peeps in blog land.

Foot Prints-Discovery Sock

Monday evening I finished my "sample" sock. The Discovery Sock pattern from Cat Bordhi's new book. I enjoyed knitting it and have learned some new techniques she shared with us through the book and videos on YouTube. I'm not going into detail on my blog, but have been kindly asked by Leslie from Greenberry House to write a book review for her newsletter. But I have downloaded these pictures to share. I will soon be casting on with a different sock yarn to knit another pair and probably with a pattern on top of the sock and leg. This was fun to knit and has intrigued me with sock knitting again. It's nice to have something new and different to pull you out of a 'rut' and this one has. It's almost like the feeling from the "first time" I finished a pair of sox. Peace & happy sock knitting!

Teddy

Hi Ya'll! After a three day weekend from the job, I have a lot of catching up to do on my list today. Once again it's Monday. Another full week has flown by. Last week was fun, I met new friends and will be posting pictures and stories about that later in the week, I hope. But today I want to show you Teddy's first haircut. We decided because he's so wiggly that we had better take him to our veterinarian's groomer who comes to his office once a week. So, last Thursday Teddy got to go meet him and get his FIRST grooming session. Mollie went and picked him back up for me, because I was busy somewhere else. They said he WAS wiggly and hoped he looked okay. We thought the groomer done an excellent job. We can see his cute face and finally his eyes again! And the colors are pretty over his body. His face is silver, several people commented, like Sam's, and his body has pretty tan colors and a little black sprinkled through out and his little tail is black to the tip. I hope to get a better over all picture of him before his hair grows back out too long. He is so soft and is wide open, running around, playing and teasing Louie, trying to get him to join in. Sometimes Louie does and it's nice and noisy in the home again. Lots of happy barking and running circles and playing. BTW, they are both sleeping now on back on the couch beside each other. After our morning routines were done, of course.
I love my babies!

A Monday To Dye For:

Yesterday November's day started out rainy, gloomy, windy, & cold. The afternoon turned into a colorful day, painting w/ Country Classic powder dyes. Inside my kitchen was the color, not outside. I had been marinating 1 pound of Blue Faced Leicester. SUPERWASH TOP...a fab fiber. 100% British Blue Faced Leicester Imported by Wool2Dye4. This morning Monday, November 2, was the opposite weather-wise. Clear, blue skies, sunshine and just the perfect temps. With the wool's colors set over night, I was able to hang them out to dry. They got almost dry by the end of the day. And in a few days I plan to start spinning. Wild colored sox yarns of course!

Louie

The Great Pumpkin has once again, come and gone. And now we are already in the month of November. Louie's mom, Mollie, is always buying him things to wear. Mind you, that Louie does not like to wear those things. His mom does good to get his "things" on long enough for me, to flash a picture for her. These two turned out really cute.
Louie is a good sport. Louie is here to wish you all a happy month of November. And he is already thinking about the aromas from holiday cooking soon to start in the kitchen. hmmmmmm! Life is good, when you have yummy foods to eat!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! / FIBER WITCHES

We all had a good time of celebrating Halloween with our spinning and knitting. Natalie, the shop owners daughter is a fiber artist. She hand paints her own line of sock yarn and has them for sell in this shop and her Etsy shop. She is shown here spinning some brightly colored roving for sock yarn, on her Joy wheel. KnitFitKnitter, is her shop name. She was so cute in her outfit. I can't wait to see her yarn when she is finished. I plan on dyeing some roving myself with bright colors to spin. Hope to get some things together today. What better day than Halloween for a pot of witch's brew?

Sharon served up apple cider and fresh apple cake. The refreshments were very good.
We had lots of colorful yarns to look at and fondle. I, in the meantime, while Natalie was spinning, and Sharon waiting on a customer, got some knitting accomplished on my toe up sock technique sock from Cat's new book. So far it's going well and I'm making some progress.

I made a few pictures at the shop and the batteries in the camera were getting low. BTW, the stripes on my socks, where the stripes look yellow, they are a bright orange, it doesn't show at all in the pictures. But they do match the orange shirt.

Hope everyone has a festive day and night and don't forget all the little goblins who will be knocking on your doors tonight. Have something ready for them, even if it's a toad. NO, just kidding about the toad, maybe a chocolate candy bar, to rot their little teeth. HeeeeHeeeee! Happy Halloween! And may all your brooms fly high!!

Halloween Sox, Socktoberfest Sox Completed!

Glad to be finished with these! They are knee high socks to wear under a below the knees black jumper w/ a orange quarter length sleeve shirt. The colors do not show up as bright as they are in person. They even fit into my shoes. They are knit w/ the Cascade worsted weight yarn, I posted a couple of weeks ago. The second sock's gauge came out a little looser and I remembered why this morning. I forgot to start out with a short circular needle instead of I used the double points on the second one. And I knit tighter with the circular. I used the circular with the first one and it fitted perfect. This second one is a little too loose and I'm aggravated with it and at me for forgetting. I took notes but "forgot" to record that also. I didn't have to tell about the loose one, but might as well be honest. The single sock pictured is my favorite and my first one.

I plan to wear them Friday night at the Halloween Yarn Party at what's needlin' ewe.
Looking forward to getting to costume up for something. I'm still a child at heart. I loved being a child and my childhood. And funny when you're a child you can't wait to grow up. Well I'm now underway on knitting from the new Cat book and have it started. And I'm spinning some Angora goat fluff from a lady I met at the post office, who works at the police department.