From my family to yours

Happy Thanksgiving

May you find moments of knitting time in your day and your heart full of gratitude for all your blessings.

Blessed be

Quickie

Being under the weather always has a sweet side. That sweet side for me is that I have more time to knit. (I bet you all feel the same way too.) Anyway, I haven't had much of a chance to work on my Monkey Socks so that was my project to start with. Throughout the day I worked on everything that I have on the needles but these socks have my attention. Here is a picture of them. This was take the other day, but I wanted to share with you how they are looking with the Knit Picks Felici.

There are 4 of the lace rounds finished in the picture but I've finished the 5th round and I'm starting on the heel.

So it's back to knitting, letting the Day Quill work and sitting in my knitting chair.

Blessed be

I'm suppose to be in Tennessee

My bags were packed, the Cruiser was ready, and my throat was so sore and my fever was 101.3 so I didn't get to go on my weekend trip. I really need to get away for a couple of days and check on mom. Plus I seriously need to go to the Smoky Mountain Spinnery. But mom sent me a few pictures to make me feel better.

So I'm going to fix me a hot toddy, kick back and knit, and sleep, and knit, and sleep... I may play on Ravelry some too. ;-)

Blessed Be

NC Scarf FINISHED!!!

I have to tell you, I never get tired of seeing the expression on people's faces when you give them something that you have made. It's great. Words can't hardly describe it. Last night I got to experience that wonderful feeling again. I've been working on a scarf for my friend Jan, who is a North Carolina fan. So for her birthday I knitted her a scarf in her college colors. She loved it, and I loved giving it to her. I think though that her husband may steal it. LOL. He had his eye on it too, since he's also a NC grad. Here is a picture of Jan just after she opened her gift.

Jan had mentioned in the past that she is temperature sensitive and gets so cold when she is out and that she hates for her neck to be cold, so I made the scarf double thickness and a little wider so she could stay warm. I think it was a hit.

Knitters have the greatest opportunity to share not just their knitting talent but their heart with those around them through the things they knit. How blessed we are.

Blessed be

He did it!

GT's brown belt test lasted a little longer than planned. It started on time at 9:30am but didn't end until 5:30 pm. It was a great, he did wonderful. Here is the picture of him receiving his belt.

GT's brown belt test

Tomorrow morning bright an early my son will be testing for his brown belt in Isshin Ryu karate. It's been a long time coming and I can't begin to tell you how proud of him I am. His path has been very hard at times, but he has faced every mountain and overcome what he needed to. Though he's 19 at many times he has the maturity of a man who's experienced many of life's difficult lessons. From a western point of view he should have been angry, and made his decisions from an anger base, but he hasn't. He chose a higher road, (without my influence ;-) ) and because of that it's taken him a little longer to get to this testing point, but it's his path and he has done so well so far. Tomorrow his test is not just physical but mental and spiritual. He will have to dig down into everything he is to pass this test. Please keep him in your thoughts.

Testing time 9am until approximately 4pm ( I will have pictures)

Blessed be