Wildlife Wednesday

Hello,

Here are few pictures I took the last few days of the wildlife and the nature around my home.

Brand-new baby fawn.

There are twins, if you look closely you can see the second one there too.  This one momma deer has twins pretty much every year.

Sunset after a thunderstorm.

The colour of the sky was a beautiful dusty pinky-purple.

This is Bingley the cat we found yesterday.  We're not sure if he is lost or if someone was trying to get rid of him.  He is so adorable and lovable!!  We're trying to find him a good home.

I hope you are having a beautiful Wednesday!
xoxo

Dahlia Socks

Hello,

I know today is Tuesday and I should be posting a one-a-day progress report, but I haven't worked on my hexagon blanket at all this past week.  I should be back on track next Tuesday though.  So instead, today I thought I'd share the other pair of socks I finished on Sunday.

These are the Dahlia socks I took with me on vacation.  As I mentioned before, the yarn was a birthday gift from my friend Jessica, and I thoroughly enjoyed every second of knitting this pair.  The yarn is great and the colours are lovely!  I really am getting quite a hand-knit sock stash now aren't I?  I can't think of anything better though, cause hand-knit socks are up at the top of my list of the great comforts in life!

xoxo

Patchwork Socks

Hello,

I finished my Patchwork Socks last night!!  They were such a great knit and I think they were extra fun because I took part in the knit-along on the Itty-Bitty Group.  It was great to get encouragement and share progress reports with all the other knitters.  I found it particularly neat to see that once some of us had gathered together our yarn scraps it was clear what was our favourite colours were.

Here is the pile of yarn I started with.  As you can see I like pink quite a lot....

And here they are finished and on my feet:

These pretty much flew off my needles.  I wonder if it was because I was always wanting to see what colours would come next.  I'm really happy with how they turned out and I'm so glad I didn't rip them back when I wanted to.  I thought the colours weren't working well together, but now I can see that they actually look good.  This was a great pattern for using up some of my sock yarn scraps, which I seem to have quite a few of....  Next I'd like to try some hexipuffs for a Bee Keeper's Quilt, so you may see some on the blog here in the near future.

Our power has gone off quite a few times since I started writing this post due to some thunderstorms we've had go through the area this evening, so I should post this before it goes out again.  I hope that you are having better weather in your area tonight.

Be back soon,
xoxo

Vacation Knits

Hello,

Well, I'm finally home! The plane Mom and I were flying on from Atlanta to Detroit on Tuesday got delayed so we ended up missing our flight to Sault Michigan. We only missed it by a few minutes too, and since it was the last flight out that night, we had to stay in Detroit and then fly out the next day around noon. My cousin and Auntie M were on a different flight than we were, so they made it home as planned, which was good. Mom and I looked at the whole thing as an adventure so it really wasn't that that big of a deal. We ended up getting home Wednesday evening, and I just relaxed yesterday. Today I have to go to the city for a doctors appointment for the vertigo. I'm praying this will fix it and I will be well again very soon.

Anyways, today I wanted to show you a few of the things I knitted while on vacation.

I knit this little gnome for Matt as a birthday present and I got Mom to embroider the flowers on his shirt to make him a tropical gnome.

I knit this tiny frog for a friend, isn't he cute? The pattern for these two was gifted to me by my friend Julie (Tanknit) for my birthday. It's the Tiny Things Collection 3 from Mochimochiland. I want to knit the little stack of pancakes next! I really enjoy making miniatures, they're fast and the end result is always so cute. Thank you Julie for these!!

This is the sock I started on the way to Myrtle Beach using the Cascade Heritage that Jessica sent me. I took this picture our last night there and I ended up finishing it on the car ride home from the airport. I haven't started the second one yet though. I've been working on my Patchwork socks since I came home and I have one finished and I'm almost to the heel flap on the second one. They're just zipping right along! As soon as I get the second one done I'm going to cast on for the second one of this pair. I've really been enjoying working with the Cascade Heritage yarn, its so soft and the colours are gorgeous!

I didn't get much knit on my Whippoorwill, but I think I'll get back to it soon. It was just a little too much for me to concentrate on when I wasn't feeling well. I think it's going to be beautiful though and I was enjoying knitting it when I could.

Well, that's all for today!
xoxo

Beach Pictures

Hello,

Well, it's been a lovely vacation and I had a great birthday yesterday, thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!! We are scheduled to fly out tomorrow, So tonight I thought I'd share some pictures.

25 years old already....who would've thought?

Beach days:

p.s. The man with his arms in the air was just a random person who kept getting in my pictures each day so I thought he deserved a spot on the blog.

xoxo

Plane Knitting

Hello,

Well, we are here in Myrtle Beach! Yesterday was a long, long day of flying. Mom and I had an extra flight that Matt and Auntie M didn't, so that made for a total of three flights to get here. I got Mom to take some pictures along the way of me knitting:

1. Starting my Whippoorwill Shawl on our first flight. This would be around 6:30am.
2. Close up of the shawl. I'm quite happy with the colour - Knit Picks Stroll Tonal in Golden Glow, it's a lovely rich, saturated yellow.
3. Knitting a plain vanilla sock in the Atlanta airport using the Cascade Heritage Hand Painted sock yarn in Daliha that my lovely friend Jessica sent me for my birthday.

The weather here today is cloudy and a bit on the cool side so everyone has went to the aquarium for the afternoon. I opted to stay back at the condo since I experienced a bad case of vertigo after landing here yesterday. I thought it best to just take the day to rest and relax. That's what vacations are for anyways, right? I'll leave you with some pictures I took this morning:

1. The view from the condo balcony.
2. One of the beautiful pools.
3. My cousin Matt checking out the ocean temperature.
4. The ocean.

xoxo

One-a-Day Tuesday (a little late)

Hello,

I'm a little late with my one-a-day post this week, sorry about that!  I was busy, busy, busy and didn't get around to posting yesterday like I planned.  I had a hard time doing one each day this past week, so I would double, or triple up when I needed to in order to get the right amount done.  Here's my progress so far:

I'm taking this next week off from the one-a-day because I'm going on a little vacation!  Me, my Mom, my cousin Matt and his Mom (Auntie M) are going to Myrtle Beach on Friday.  It's mine and Matt's birthday trip (May 20th and 22nd, respectively), and also my parent's anniversary (May 20th as well, I was born on their 9th anniversary.), so since Dad can't go on vacation right now Mom is coming along with us to celebrate.  Matt picked Myrtle Beach as the destination.  I've never been there before so I'm excited to see what it's like.  I've been busy planning my knitting projects to take along and I must admit that I got them all in order before I even thought about packing my suitcase.  I think I've settled on Whippoorwill by Carina Spencer, Flamingo Mittens by SpillyJane and a pair of Patchwork Socks by Susan B. Anderson that I'm working on for the KAL in the Itty-Bitty Knits Group.  Sounds like a good lineup to me.  I even sewed up some new project bags based on a few I've seen around online yesterday to tote them along in style.

Well it is getting late and I still have some packing to do, but I wanted to add that when I last blogged I asked for ideas on what to take as a project to work on at my Grandma's birthday party, and I ended up going with Rae Lynne's suggestion of a shawl.  I started the Munch Shawl by Ann Weaver.  I'm still on the body section but I'm putting it aside till I come back because it's done out of worsted weight wool and I thought that was a little too hot for warm weather knitting.

Have a great night everyone and I hope to be back soon,
xoxo