Christmas hat #2 ~

I'm done with Christmas hat #2 in the Packers' colorway of green and yellow. I used the Turn a Square pattern again and it works up fast.

Really fast....

and it looks very cute....(although everything looks cute on her~)

How am I going to get this away from my daughter so we can give it to her Uncle for Christmas?

Time for Fall?

Hard to believe that our summer here has just begun to roll...as you might recall there were some of us in long underwear watching the 4th of July fireworks... and today this appears in our mailbox....

So I'm taking the Fall/Winter issue of Interweave Knits out on the back deck, where our tomatoes are still green... and reading about wool sweaters and mittens and fuzzy hats.....so very odd....but I'm looking forward to it....

Crazy Done ~

I've cast off my daughter's crazy socks and was glad I waited for Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind off, as it works like a charm! My daughter likes the color combination and thinks it matches perfectly with the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince book cover of purple and green.

Very color coordinated... Very lovely and fun!!!

Two for Christmas ~

The first Christmas hat knit so fast that I was able to cast on another hat. This one is in traditional green and yellow for the Green Bay Packers....

So, second Christmas hat cast on August 2nd....not bad, eh?!

I need to go river camping a lot more this summer!

River Fun ~

You might be wondering what the rest of the family is doing while I'm knitting in the river ... or, since you probably are a knitter reading this, you may not really care what the rest of the family is doing...but I'll tell you anyway...

They are tubing down the river ~ sometimes at a relaxing pace...

Often too fast for the camera to get a good picture!

Sometimes too far away to capture what actually happened as the tube and rider went over the rapids!

Oh my!! I'll stick to my knitting....

Cast on Christmas ~

Yes, I did say Christmas... casting on my first Christmas hat on August 1st. I'd say that is doing pretty swell long range planning....

I'm using the pattern Turn a Square and so far, so good. Here is the hat with the color work started.

Using Rowan yarn for the first time, too, with this "new to me" pattern.

Did I mention that I cast off on the same day as I cast on? :) Gotta love river knitting!!!

River Crazy ~

The amount of knitting one can do while sitting in a river on a beautiful Saturday while one's kids go tubing down the wee rapids is amazing.

Not to mention that this is the perfect way to spend a hot Saturday with one's family and keep everyone happy!

I made great progress on these Crazy Socks, and knit all the way to the cast off, but couldn't remember Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind off....so now I've taken pictures of the instructions with my iPhone so I will have them always.... anywhere... anytime....

Emergency measures, but we knitters need these precautions.... :)