Veterans' Day ~

If you know someone who has served, or is now serving in our country's Armed Forces, please take a moment to thank them for our continued freedom. I called my dad today, and thanked him again for his service in World War II. I had a great visit with him and mum, and I let him know how grateful I am, and our family is of his service, and all the Veterans that have served, and continue to serve our country.

Here's dad and I (above), Christmas 1969...he's opening his new Corona typewriter!

Here's dad with my sister (above), in 1971...
If you know someone who has served, or is now serving, please take a moment to thank them for our continued freedom.

Lorna Laces Love ~

Lorna Laces Rainbow is my newest love. The colors are so happy and vibrant, even when it is pouring rain in the Pacific Northwest.


Jitteryknitter keeps calling this shawl "clown barf" and I just don't see that (do you?). But she must love it as much as I do, as she's the one knitting it... and it is beautiful!!!!



I see lovely summer rainbows and tropical sunshine and flowers....I love this yarn!

Day Care Socks Day ~

I made great progress on my Day Care Socks this weekend.

I knit on them in Panera Bread, also at 3 different Starbucks....(but you've already seen many pictures of that!)

Sawyer is still lucky ~

Remember Sawyer of here, and here..... He is still very very lucky, as his grandma still knits him treasures.

His birthday was Saturday, and she knit him this lovely hat! He's so lucky!!!

Cascade Tour ~

For those of you familiar with Cascade Yarns, you know they are wonderful. We were lucky this weekend to get a tour of their warehouse in the Pacific Northwest. As the line of a hundred eager ladies filed through the outer office and into the warehouse area, I noticed one of the desks had the typical phone, computer, calendar....and the part that was not typical was the inbox with yarn in it....ahhhh, my dream would be to have yarn in my inbox.....a magical place!

There were boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of Cascade Yarn....everywhere...The tour guides gave each lady a big plastic bag for our purchases....wow......and off we went, looking for the treasure in the "open" boxes and then in the bags lined up along all the walls.

There were wonderful yarns in the open boxes on the floor. I fell hard for the Chunky Alpaca, and ended up dumping out my Cash Vero and Cloud 9 in favor of more Chunky Alpaca. I also was talked into some EcoAlpaca of a yummy brown, and am so glad it came home with me.

Here's some of our treasures....too much for the plastic bag!!!!

Here was our favorite sign....

What a great tour!!!

Mystery squares ~

Some mysteries have better clues than other mysteries. This mystery is a blanket with each square is a different stitch pattern, and the knitter doesn't know what it will look like. There have been two sets of patterns, with 4 squares in each set.

We are desperately waiting for the next set of 4 patterns,as we've knitted all of the first two sets. Jitteryknitter is doing a marvelous job of blocking - what a pro!!!

They do look beautiful ~ great choice of colors, Marion! The 4 that I've knit have been fun to knit.....(well, Chandler has not been as fun as the first 3 that I knit....)

Halloween heels ~

While waiting for trick or treaters, I was able to turn both heels on the day-care socks.

They look great! The yarn is so beautiful!