Completed!

I got it done in under a month.

Happy Dance!
















It was done with size 7 circular needles.

7 skeins of Peace Fleece yarn in Patience Blue.
The color is more like the picture in the previous post.

The pattern is Cottage Comfort from the book "Button Up Your Top Down". Ravelry links.

It's going to be toasty warm and cozy.

I loves it. :)

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!

If I get this done by the 23rd I'll have done this sweater in a month. Can I finish it in a week? I think I can....

Crossing my fingers!

Blue Jay hunting

Teddy & Maddie doing their cat thing. Bird watching/hunting.

Their tails were really twitching back & forth.

This blue jay is either brave or is a bird brain! ;)

At the very least his stomach won out over any common sense...

Saturday Sky and yarn on sale!

We are having a much longer Indian Summer than expected. It is wonderful. We have missed forecasted rains and have had warmer than average temperatures. Harvest is racing along and maybe there will be a fair amount of fall's work done also. It always makes spring go so much faster.

And look at this haul! This week at Michaels there is a sale on several different yarns....2 for $5. I'm not exactly sure how or why I got an odd number of them. Maybe it's because I got them yesterday. 13 skeins for Friday the 13th? Anyway, I'm really excited about this. I am thinking about making this rug or this cat bed or this cat bed and this yarn will be super for these projects. Oh, and the blue is possible for a pair of Fuzzy Feet. There is a fair amount of Peace Fleece lurking around here too and I'm sure they'll play nice together and make one or two of these projects.

Update on my blue sweater. I'm doing the ribbing on the bottom and then will only have the sleeves left to do. I'm tickled pink! :)

Veterans Day

I remember the friend I lost in Vietnam. I think of all the men and women who have died. And all the others that have been wounded and maimed both physically and emotionally. How brave they all are. How selfless. We need to remember and honor them.

Sunset over soybeans

I took this a couple days ago. The sunset was actually quite a bit more colorful...the sun was a pretty peachy orange. But, you know, a cell phone can only do so much.

Soybean harvest is moving along now. We had our Indian Summer today and maybe tomorrow. Usually it is a bit longer than that but we'll take what we can get.

So the warmer weather combined with no rain for at least a week and we should be able to finish up the soybeans, edible black beans and corn. What a relief that will be. And this is a first....we have enough people working that someone can work in the combined fields putting on fertilizer or just cultivating to be ready for next year. It's a good thing.

At noon today deer harvest, oh, ah, I mean deer hunting season started. I wish everyone lots and lots of luck. There are so many deer that driving at dusk is quite a hazard. I've hit my fair share of deer and really don't want to again.

This warm weather really isn't what the hunters want though. Cool to cold is good so that if they get a deer they can hang it outside and it will stay cold until they can get to processing it. I guess someone is unhappy with the weather no matter what it is.

Dropped stitch....Yay!

I think the blue sweater is coming along pretty good. Of course, it's the only thing I'm working on right now! All scrunched together like this it looks like it would fit DGD and she's only 4. I'm nearing the 364 stitches that is the point to put the sleeves on waste yarn. Only a couple more increase rows to go.

I did have a brain cramp in the button band though. Thank goodness I caught it as soon as I did. I had knit a row when I should have been purling. So I got out a trusty crochet hook, threw in a lifeline and held my breath that I could actually do what I planned.

One at a time I dropped a stitch off the needle, pulled it down to where the mistake was, inserted the crochet hook and picked up the stitches again. Only making purls where it had been knits before. It turned out. So a dropped stitch can be a good thing in the right situation. Usually they just make me freak out! :)