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This is # 15 and yet the most beautiful pair of Socks I have ever made. Beaudelaire is a sumptuous combination of Lace and Cable which makes this project my first sophisticated sock-knit!
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All I need to do now is to find the perfect frame for those socks...
For his 4th BD, our Son wanted a Pet... Well, we are not really Pet-Kind peoples (especially DH) but we finally agreed on a fish. So, here is our new friend,
Swimmy, the Betta Fish!
Now, guess who is going to have all the "fun"... Mmmh?
Beaudelaire #1 is completed and its Sister Sock is on the needles, about 30% done - I turned the heel and I am working on the cuff now. I made that cuff shorter than instructed in the pattern. Just my preference...
Pattern: Beaudelaire from Knitty
Yarn: Knit Picks Essential - Color "Burgundy" (bien sur!)
Needles: Flexible Double Pointed #2US
This is my belated Socktoberfest project - better late than never  - and my Red Sock Knit-Along Project.
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Here is the Black Irish Hiking Hat for my Husband. Same large fold up brim but I had to change the top's decreasing as he thought that my Hat was too "pointy" (I quote)... I focused on maintaining the K2 line all the way to the very top this time as I was narrowing the cabling and I think I prefer it that way.
Yarn: Patons Classic Wool, color Black - 1 skein
Needles: 16 "Circular and Double Pointed Needles #8US
Thanksgiving Song
(tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
Let's be thankful for this day
For our friends and for our play
Let's be thankful; lets be glad
For the food and things we have
Let's give thanks for you and me
And our home and family.
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Have a Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving!
My Irish Hiking Set is now almost complete. Well, unless I decide to add a pair of IH Socks...
Due to my freezing experience on the beach the other day, I understand that a Head Band is more an ornament than real protection against the cold weather.
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So, I got myself some more of that Lion Wool yarn - color Winter White - and I completed a Irish Hiking Hat. A little more than a 100g skein were necessary to make that hat the way I wanted it to be.
I made it deep just the way I like, with a large fold up and cabled all the way through the top decreasing, but I didn't do it as instructed in the pattern, but my own way.
I am pretty happy with the way it looks AND this project fits two Knit Alongs at once! 
Do you know that when you take a walk on the Southern Maine Coast in Fall , you are very likely to encounter more than Sea Shells and Joggers? 
That gives an idea of temperatures in the area, huh? 
Although it was a nice day for the season, our last Saturday walk on the beach was shortened because of the freezing wind. We know that it is always more windy on the beach, but we didn't expect that cold and certainly not that day, because it was not windy at all in town...
Anyway, it was right there, on that beach, looking at my red-nosed little one wearing my wrist warmers (way too big for her) that I realized that DD needed more than Beanie and Scarf even to face Autumn outdoors... I thought I would have time to finish a few other projects first, but I was obviously wrong!
So, back home - motivated by Guilt (with a big G) - I grabbed some Merino Wool and my favorite Needles and I knitted my little heart out until my work was done. And this is what I made for her:
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Yarn: Patons Classic Wool, color Petal Pink - 1 skein for both projects.
Needles: Dbpns & Circular #8US
Those were FUN and QUICK Knits.
All in the round, there was few ends weaving but no seaming at all! 
I have always been fascinated by the beauty of the sky and always took photos of it, but now it is "official", I am a Sky Walker Watcher! Yes Ma'am, Missy and Siree! I have joined Sandy's Saturday Sky Watchers, and here is my first photo, a Northern New England cloudy sky on a Fall's Saturday afternoon at the beach. I like the sun brightened plane's marks above the clouds...
My Take it EZ Scarf for Red Scarf Project 2007 is completed; it is the coolest 6 inches wide x about 60 inches long TV friendly project I have ever made!
Did I ever mentionned how much I dislike shoting red stuff? Either my camera is not good enough, either I AM not good enough but in any case the pictures never look as good as I would like it to do...
So, here is a B & W photo to show the stitching clearly, and a color one just to show that that scarf IS red! 
Yarn: Caron Simply Soft, 1 skein of Red,
from my stash.
Needles: #8US
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Last night, I was reading "At Knit's End - Meditations for Women who Knit too much" by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee- the Yarn Harlot - and she says that she doesn't mind to interrupt her knitting in the middle of a row...
I never really thought of it, but now that I do, I happen to ALWAYS finish the row I am working on before pausing my knitting (unless it is an emergency of course)!
For some reasons, It just doesn't feel right to stop right in the middle of a row... Is it? My Mom - who taught me to knit in my young years - always told me that it was wrong. She use to say - and I am sure she would still say so if she was asked now - that it would cause a lose spot where the project was put on hold.
But then, I am thinking, what about knitting in the round with circular needles? There are neither beginnings, nor ends of rows... Therefore, are you supposed to never pause until the project is completed?
I am curious to know how YOU, fellow Knitters, are doing it (?)
