keeping busy...

I'm not sure if it was a publishing problem or a Google Reader problem but for some reason I couldn't get my last post to show up in Google Reader. Well, in case anyone missed it, I was just showing off my new quilt pattern.

Anyway, I was busy this weekend with some custom little mini quilts.

Also, has it dawned on anyone else that Christmas is only two months away!?!!

I've been thinking about knitting some new Christmas stockings. I know I've already made stockings for the three of us but they are kind of plain (which is a GOOD thing sometimes) and I am in the mood for something a little more interesting and fun!

I was thinking of making a different style for each of us. I like the argyle for myself (not sure what colors yet) and the Mix-and-Match for Hubby and there is one other design that might be good for Jack. I don't know....it was just implusive thought when I saw the stockings book on my shelf. I'm going to block my cardi first and then see what I feel like working on.

And the stockings were hung...

I finished Jack's stocking this week, his is the striped one.Pattern: Rustic Lodge from the book Knit Christmas Stockings!

Yarn: bits of green, red, and brown tweeds, honestly the ball bands are long gone and I don't remember what brands they are except for the green, it is Kathmandu Aran Tweed

Needles: US #10.5 dpns

Notes: As you can see I did not have enough of the green and red that I used to make the first two so I added in some brown and made it a stipey stocking which I tought very appropriate for a little boy's stocking. I'm very happy with how it turned out!

And this is a Christmas gift that I whipped up at the last second. Unfortunately, this is the second take....the first one I made was completely destroyed by the cats.

Pattern: Knitted Mini Christmas Stockings (Rav link)

Yarn: Knit Picks Palatte in Sky and Fog

Needles: US #2 dpns

Notes: I found it very odd to knit a sock flat and then seam it but it wasn't fiddly at all!

Merry Christmas!!!