To my New England fans

I decided everyone, other then my kids, were getting handmade items this Christmas. That made my decisions quite difficult for my dad and brother. Then I came across a hat somewhere online, and it gave me an idea. My brother is a huge Red Sox fan. No pattern in particular, I just did a basic beanie hat, and the scarf if done with HDC 20 or so st across, 5 feet long, give or take.

I used Red Heart Super Saver yarn, a little more then a skein of the Windsor Blue for both, and just an ounce or 2 of the red

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And for my dad, the Patriots. This picture makes the red, white and blue at the bottom look a little funky. It doesn't really look like that. Again, I used a little more then a skein of the Windsor Blue, and just an ounce or so of the red and white. The hat is the same pattern as I did here, but I made the brim a lot shorter and used a smaller hook, H instead of I. So this is more of a tighter fit then the other

I also made another keyhole scarf. Modeling this lovely, is my equally lovely daughter :)

This is made with 2 yarns held together. Homespun Cotton Candy, and Caron Simply Soft Eco Baby Blush.

Winter wonderland

Day 6 and there are still around 70,000 people without power. My town, according to the electric company website, says 95% will be restored by tomorrow. That doesn't help the 5% that may not have it back by Christmas. There are still some towns that the damage is so extent, they can't even begin to estimate a completion. With that said, we awoke to this, this morning

This area is expected to get 2-5" and another system is moving in for Friday, bringing who knows what. Because of the power outages, our high school has been turned into a shelter, so there had been no school Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday afternoon, we recieved the call all parents were waiting for. Whether or not school would be cancelled the rest of the week. And yes, no school all week. Sounds great, but starting next week, the kids start their winter break. A 2 week winter break. So now, the kids will not be back in school until January 5, 2009. This extra week off means the end of school will be extended, but that is everyone's last thought right now. Last year with all the snow we had, around 120" yes 10 feet, they went to school until June 18, or somewhere around there. Well this year school's last day of school, without any snow days, is June 16. We haven't even had the first day of winter yet!

My poor son can only sit and watch the snow fall. He has only one pair of snow pants. His only pair of snow pants went to school with him last Tuesday, and you guessed it, did not come home with him. I talked to his teacher on the phone Thursday night, and she tracked said pants down. They went home with a classmate, and he would bring them back Friday. Well Friday came, bringing us ice, no school and no snow pants. Hopefully, the weather won't be so bad this weekend, and we can take a trip to the mall and find him some. I am less hopeful then I was yesterday, at the prospects of finding snow pants. Now with all this white stuff, I imagine ski pants will be slim pickins!

A couple more down

Christmas is approaching far too quickly. I do only have a few other items left, so it's not so bad, although we have yet to start on the kids. Looks like day before shopping. That's ok, not much to choose from the day before, therefore, we won't buy too much useless stuff for them. :)



Here's another glamour girl scarf

A cute shopping bag. I'm not crazy about the handle but the bag is great. I will be making many more of these. This was made with Lily Sugar'n Cream cotton yarn, Light Grape

This hotpad is so pretty. It was a little tricky figuring how to assemble the motifs, then I realized there was a video that showed how to. I'm glad I saw this, otherwise this would never have been a finished project! This, and the washcloth below, is also made with Lily Sugar'n Cream cotton yarn. The solid color is Light Sage and the varigated is Peppercorn Ombre.

State of Emergency

On Friday, December 12, 2008, the Northeastern part of the United States woke to disaster. A little more then 1 million people woke to no power. Amazingly, little old New Hampshire alone made up almost half of that! We were quite thankful not to lose our power, one of the only neighborhoods in my town that didn't. Because of that, we opened our home, and shower, to a few friends. At the height of the power outages, more then 400,000 homes in NH were without power. Today, 4 days later that number is finally below 100,000. They are talking that some homes may not have power restored by Christmas. Here's a video of the damage to our town. Here's another
Although disasterous, the trees were beautiful. I took a few pictures, below, and you can click here to see some from our local news station's website.

2 more

My Christmas gifts are almost done, although, I am leaving a blanket for last so that should take up a week or two of my time. Being as Christmas is in what, 5 or 6 weeks, I guess I should start.

This is a fun little scarf for a girl.

This hat was very easy, looks hard though. I do admit, it took me quite a while to get it just right though. I don't know if there was an error in the directions, or if it was on my part. The latter is more likely. I had an extra stitch that was throwing me off, so I just added a bpdc to the beginning of each round after the ch2, starting in round 6. Came out great, and I love this hat. I think I will be making us all one. I am not good at adjusting patterns to fit the size I need, so the children will get one too, just a tad shorter. I can't make it smaller in diameter. They don't care though, so long as they can see!

Another scarf

This was such an easy scarf. One of those patterns that looks difficult if you don't crochet, with the slant detail in it. I made it with Red Heart Super Saver, Grey Heather. I used about 7 oz or so.

This isn't the best picture, but you can see the slant stitch in it.

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