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Guinness for Breakfast

Guinness Tortoise

Borgo di Pazzi StoutIt”s Birthday Sweater time of year again. Actually, based on past performance, it should have been Birthday Sweater time back in July (hence the tortoise). This year, Carl wants a vest rather than a full-on sweater (bless his heart; time is a-wastin’) so for the last month or so since I saw “Stout” by Borgo di Pazzi, I’ve been planning it. (The name of this project and the name of this post is a slant-ways homage to Andrea over at This Knitted Life. She knits toddler socks in bars over Bloody Marys! I have nothing but respect…) Any way, this morning over my yogurt, I sketched and swatched this year’s Birthday Sweater, the Guinness Vest. More news on that as it becomes available.

Guinness Vest

Yesterday was pretty cool. I had a really wonderful surprise when I awoke and logged on to Ravelry. There was my Diana Hat in the 8th square of Hot Right Now! I re-loaded the page three times before I believed it was true, but sure enough, there it was! Diana is free until Thanksgiving and, if you’re an Instagram person, you can use #CTDianaHat for your photos. Thanks so much, knitters, for the support! It made my day.

Diana Hat

When my charming postman came, I caught him trying to stuff a plastic envelope containing this into my mailbox like some kind of petrol-powered Santa:

Between the Christmas Goodies

It may look, to the naked eye, like I am planning some Christmas knitting but NO! This pile of goodies is destined to be my Don’t-Bother-Me-I’m-Knitting fodder between Christmas and New Years when no one can bug me about anything 😛

New Fabbies

For the time being, I’m working very hard on a new needle case design and some new Christmas project bags which I’m hoping to make available next week. I love these new fabbies and I think I’m going to go work on them right now!

November 21, 2015
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