Still Knitting...Blah!

I'm must say that you can overdose on knitting after a while...I have two pairs of Glomitts finished and a scarf that I am working on... here are a couple of pictures...

Slightly blue grey...

Slightly green grey

 

 

 

Knitting from Silk Hankies.

I'm sorry for the quality of pictures (and please don't look at the mess of knitting in the background) but it has been really hard to get a good photo with the computer camera and Teapot won't be home till this afternoon with his camera... maybe I can show better pictures tomorrow.

I am also a part of Canspin and am taking part in the Secret Santa gift exchange so I have made a book mark for my gifty person and I've dyed some Wensleydale fibre for socks and also blended a wool, alpaca, nylon (sparkly stuff) blend for her as well. I'm also gathering together the stuff needed for a friend who lives in New Brunswick to whom I'm send some wool and sari silk blended fibre... I hope they all like these gifts... tomorrow is the last day to get them in the mail and actually get the gifts there in time for Christmas so I am down to the wire.... and working like a fiend... Teapot is home today and I will barely have time to lift my head when he gets here.  But that's what its like this time of the year.... yes?!

After this spurt of energy I will have to get back to the Christmas decorating... Oh and by the way I actually followed through and bought an artificial Christmas tree.... Yes... we are totally embracing the fakeness of the Christmas season and buying a plastic tree.... euuuw! But it can't be helped I will not kill another tree to put lights on it. I just can't do it!


It is a balmy -19 this morning and clear for the first time in three days. We have had snow falling for the last little while and last night was our community light up and Santa Claus parade. We didn't get out to it with my back hurting and then Daughter #1 has a flu... we stayed home.... but we were wishing we could be there. This morning I drove Daughter #2 to school as she had missed the bus and on the way we saw one of the floats.... it was quite spectacular. In the not too distant future I am going to take some pictures of he town square.... it is quite lovely with lights all through the park and the tourist information chalet is decorated to resemble Santa's workshop so you can go right up to the windows and look in on an awesome display. Our town does a lovely job of decorating actually... I'm very proud that HH has such good Christmas spirit... Every year we have a Santa Skate at the arena, the Santa Claus parade and town square light up, not to mention the Christmas craft fair and Santa shuffle, (that's where anyone who wants to can get together in the town square and walk the town to look at the lights of all the houses... usually spontaneous caroling happens along the way... it's quite neat.)

But meanwhile the knitting languishes and I should be working.... I hope you are all getting ready for Christmas with a smile on your face and the sound of silver bells in your heart....