Christmas Time!
I smell coffee brewing and it's wonderful. Christmas day 2012 is here and I'm at home with the kitties, while Mr. Grumpbump is at work until 2:00 p.m. Macy's Christmas gift to me is that she is sitting on the couch with me and exposing her fluffy belly and accepting a few rubs from me.
I attended my knitting group's Christmas party a few weeks ago, which was a super fun evening, and in the course of buying presents for secret santa and door prizes, I ended up buying 10 skeins of a discontinued cotton yarn by Adrienne Vittadini. It is the most lovely shade of red.
I knew I wanted to wear this color but the yardage for each ball was only 87 yard so I had to start with something small. I found a really cute, easy pattern for a cowl on Ravelry called Sweet Memories. Of course, I made a mistake right off the bat and only cast on 170 stitches and I used smaller needles than the pattern calls for (size 7 instead of size 8). I was worried that this would be too small to…
I attended my knitting group's Christmas party a few weeks ago, which was a super fun evening, and in the course of buying presents for secret santa and door prizes, I ended up buying 10 skeins of a discontinued cotton yarn by Adrienne Vittadini. It is the most lovely shade of red.
I knew I wanted to wear this color but the yardage for each ball was only 87 yard so I had to start with something small. I found a really cute, easy pattern for a cowl on Ravelry called Sweet Memories. Of course, I made a mistake right off the bat and only cast on 170 stitches and I used smaller needles than the pattern calls for (size 7 instead of size 8). I was worried that this would be too small to…