Working on Christmas early

This year I'm trying to space out my Christmas knitting throughout the year. Here's Dinah, which is a silk and wool top and a silk mohair bottom. I did some modifications to add more shaping than the orginal called for. I think it came out okay.  Thanks to Amy for modeling it for me!

Almost done with Paulie

I literally have 4 more rows and the ivied bind off.  So already done with this!  I can't wait to try it on and block it. 

I made bread (http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/6788/amish-white-bread) this week so we're having French toast ...

Paulie no stripes

So, my flow for this year is one color or cable project, one straight knitting project and an option to do socks. 

I haven't posted about my straight project - Paulie (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/paulie). 

It's made from knitpicks stroll heather twead in Autumn (http://www.knitpicks.com/yarns/Stroll_Tweed_Sock_Yarn__D5420150.html) which is lovely for garment knitting-soft with a nice hand. The pattern calls for stripes but with all the slubs, I thought that was too much.  

I like it. Need to see it on. 

My on deck plain sweater is Dinah (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dinah). It's a great pattern, but it seems like the execution is tricky. Or yarn choice?

Toothed stripe done and blocked

Now it just needs to dry.  First picture is wet, second is dry and straight off the needles. I think I need to see it on. 

Hi

Well, yet another storm in GA. We got really lucky - only lost power for an hour or two, we were able to cook, nothing hit our house, all that good stuff. Lots of other people had much worse issues.  

On the knitting front, I'm more than half done with the second vest. And I'm getting ready to move to a different color way. :)

Oh crap

We didn't get snow overnight, we got ice. And this is supposed to go on all day. Ice is bad with hardwood trees, let alone Georgia pine. 

So we're taking showers and making breakfast while we still have power. 

Stained glass

In the tunnel out to the Navy Peir there is a stained glass museum. I love stain glass and want to someday use some as a basis for knit designs, so here's some scrap booking. 

Persian poppies finished

Thanks to my coworker model. 

Footprints

We went for a walk today (no work or school - we're very lucky, lots of folks in the ATL area were stuck in cars for 6,8, 12 hours or worse) and appreciated our luck. We found:

Mouse footprints

Deer prints

A large bird's prints 

Somebody tiny who tried to get into our trash 

Small bird prints. 

Snow day!

It just took me over two hours to get home from work because it's snowing. 

I'm safe,my husband will be home soon, our son will be home soon. 

The blackbirds down here freaked out by the weather this winter. There so many of them up and down the street, mobbing, that when a big flock of them took off a few minutes ago it sounded like some kind of muffled thunder.  Kind of startled me at first. Even inside the house I can hear them chirping, calling to each other.  They sound like squeaky hinges on tens of rusty screen doors. 

Here they are at my front yard.