Saturday our LYS was having a 15% off on all of the yarns. So, I was in there and I had just told Heatherly (our knitting teacher, the one that just had the baby girl, and the baby shower is at my house tonight) that many of the ladies had said maybe we could make something for the baby, but then the next comment was that Heatherly was such an expert knitter and we weren't sure we could make something that would be nice enough. Heatherly emailed me and said thank you for the compliment but she was kind of sad that we felt that way. So, upon thinking about this I saw this yarn called "Ice Cream" and thought I could at least knit a hat and some booties for the baby and this is what I ended up with. The booties have a pattern in two sizes and I made the larger one which looked pretty big to me, but since Talia ia already a month old I figured she could always grow into them. We are all looking forward to the baby shower and I am trying to get my house cleaned up! Devvy at Knit Wits (LYS) invited me down because the Trend Setter Rep was there and she wanted me to come look at the yarns that he had. I told her that "we live in our house and I am trying to make it look like it
isn't lived in". Anyway, I pretty much got things in order. I still have to go pick up the cake. Jen is picking up a gift at Target and so we will have fun especially since we are all knitters. The cake says "Will Someone Please Teach Me How To Knit!" I will take some pictures and post them later.
I have also been working on a scarf from Baby Alpaca Brush in a brown color. I think I should have used a larger needle in order to see the pattern, but maybe next time. I don't think I will frog this as it is close to being finished and since it really turned cold here today I want to wrap it around my neck. It looks like I was successful at transfering a picture of this project. The color of this yarn is so pretty. The other thing I did this weekend was to work on another hat. I bought some Baby Alpaca Bulky yarn for some hats. One was started in green and finished in pink, the second one was started in pink and finished in green, (Jen made both of these on our last trip) and there was some yarn left over so I made the green, pink, green, pink one. I love this yarn. It would be so nice to have something to wear in this yarn because it feels so wonderful next to your skin.
Winter has certainly set in effective this Thanksgiving weekend. I would say as of Saturday the temperatures dropped down to 32 degrees at night and today it is really cold and I am running around the house like a chicken with my head cut off. I also worked some more on the felted hat and Buffy's cat bed this weekend. My husband left on Saturday to go to our friends and help with their computer so I was home alone with the three cats and two dogs. I knitted and knitted until my hands hurt and then read "Knitting" a novel. So, it was a great weekend. I'll try and post some pictures of the baby shower tomorrow and hopefully a picture of Heatherly and Talia.