After Thanksgiving festivities

We survived the post Thanksgiving turkey stupor and were grateful to have a peaceful afternoon of knitting with friends. On Thanksgiving day some of us herded grandchildren and celebrated birthdays while others tried avoiding sensitive topics of conversation with relatives. All in all we enjoyed ourselves. Todays' topics discussed were the heavy responsibility of babysitting houseplants while the owners are away. The conversation really picked up when the subject of being careful what you google came up. I'm still chuckling about trying to find the website for the major sports equipment store and coming up with something TOTALLY different!😅

Maureen started the cutest hat in the adult size. It is reminiscent of a Peruvian Chullo hat.

     

The Yarnimals Owl Hat is a free pattern on Ravelry which includes sizes from baby to adult. Since she's making this for an adult, she will of course leave off the owl face. There is also a free version of a monkey hat.

Dorah combined two sock yarns on a size 6 needle to make the LOSY Hat. LOSY stands for left over sock yarns and makes a colorful 3X2 ribbed cap using any combination of sock yarns left in your stash.

Jan made the decision last week to turn her pleated scarf into a cowl since knitting a whole scarf would just take the wind from her sails. All she has to do is knit this long enough to fit comfortably around the neck and seam the short ends together and VOILA! She'll have a cowl!

Annika finished her Woodnote cowl...

And is already working on a second one! She did a great job and I found out it is the first time she ever knitted cables! This pattern gave her tons of practice too.

Janna brought two projects (because, let's be honest, no one has only one project going at a time. Ok, well maybe almost no one. I'm looking at you Beth😊). The top one is a Helix Hat which is a great stash busting project to use up those bits of yarn that are too small in quantity to make anything but too much to throw away. Besides, who would throw away yarn?!?! The project at the bottom is...

Easy Slip Stitch Mitts and is another freebie on Ravelry. You can make fingerless mitts or full mittens and it is another good stash busting project.

Barbara B. is making a hat for her grandson using Rutgers colors since he's a fan of the university his grandfather attended. Someone said she must really love this kid because she's knitting with black yarn.

Last week I worked on the Elizabeth Zimmermann Rib Warmer. Since I've made a bunch in the past, I relied on my memory to assemble the pieces...never a good idea! I had to rip out the shoulder seam on the second piece because whatever I did to it prevented it from lining up to the back seam.

For my second one I decided to knit both pieces at once so they would be exactly the same and I could lay them out before sewing them together.

                             

Well, right on schedule as predicted, the snow flurries are beginning to fall. I might have to cuddle up with Fozzie to keep warm. Stay well and keep those needles clicking!