Dripping Luxury

Before I share my news I have to show off this ridiculously glorious scarf I'm making for my dear. It started out as a scarf to wear to football games but the red is a little too rich. No worries, he loves it anyway and I have to admit I am a little sad that I'm not making it for myself! The yarn is Classica Elite Lush with angora. Angora is rabbit fur shed by the funniest looking rabbit ever. I definitely need more of this wonderful yarn for myself!

PS my news actually has to wait until tomorrow, you'll understand why.

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One Man's Trash

Look at this wonderful piece my Darling brought home! It's from the 20's or 30's and belonged to our neighbor's Grandmother. I have somewhere to put all these blankets I'm making!

PS. I have fun news to share tomorrow

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Fall's Here!

The weather is finally at a point where you can be outside all day and not have a care in the world! Although it's been rainy for a few days, and it going to be pretty nasty later in the week, for now it's just perfect! There are even some Eager Beaver trees starting to turn!

Every autumn I have a huge need to make scarves, hats, and gloves. I don't know why. I have enough scarves (3), but I'm already planning another one (2). Already worked out a hat and scarf ensemble to make for the Harvard Football games so we can be warm, cozy, and show our school pride! Going to learn a new technique while making it: double knitting. Oooooo sounds tricky hm?

I also want to make a hooded cowl to wear under my coats when I don't have my hooded sweaters on. I love hoods. I love being wrapped up in scarves Babushka style. I love wearing enough other warm cozy things that you don't need a coat when it's 40 out!

New England winters may be the death of me, but autumn makes up for it.

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Snooze

There once was a girl with a curl right in the middle of her forehead.
Everything was fine, when she was on her meds
and then they changed them and it was awful!

Not "It's Christmas and you're going to LIKE IT!" awful

more like "I know I just got 7 hours of sleep but I'm just so... so....what's the word?"

Friggin Doctors meddling with things.

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Bad Math and Summer's Eve

It's a bed of flowers, hurry and jump in before summer's over! I have 5 more to finish once I buy more olive. And beige. I much prefer the beige background over another color, but that's just me. If I were to make this blanket again all for myself, that's what I would do. Pick 3-4 motifs (probably the one with the round petals which you can find here and then the other sharper edge ones here and here) And then I would do the backgrounds in beige, only making the hexagons 6 or 7 inches each side, then join with olive. Then the flowers don't quite get as lost. Of course, I'd have to make more then 18 to make a whole blanket. The hexagons here are 8 inches a side. Which is pretty huge. Some of them you can see I mis-measured. So need to fix those once I get more olive. And that dang wave. I fear I'm going to have to rip out a few rows and redo them with less stitches to straighten the buggers out. Blast it all.
A big pile of leaves!
This is where the bad math comes in.. I could've sworn I had 10 done. That would've meant I was pretty much done except for my own. But alas, I only have 7 finished. I have two that are half finished. I also need to sit down and make sure I have blocks for people according to their color preferences. I sorta just.. started making them.. without paying attention to that. But! I'm sure I can find homes for them all. If not I'll just keep them for myself!

I'm waiting on two important packages that I ordered last Friday. Both were originally supposed to arrive by the end of the week. One (the most important one) is a air mattress that was supposed to be here between Wednesday and Friday, but now it says it won't get here until MONDAY. And my mom is going to be staying the night on SUNDAY. Crap. UPS took their sweet-@$$ time going from Arizona to Indiana (four days. Four days!) We drove from Colorado to Boston in two days, if we can do it, they can do it. Now it's in Buffalo. But come on, that's like, 7 hours away already!

Friday is our six year anniversary. (Monday technically, but I'll be in the Cape with some fam, so it's been moved up) Woah. We're going to Cirque de Soliel's Alegria. How exciting is that? This is becoming a tradition that I l-o-v-e- love.

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