Today’s picture is actually yesterday’s picture but I loved it so much! We have this incredible view out of our bedroom window, aren’t we lucky? We don’t take it for granted. That’s a guarantee. This week has been a whirlwind week and I’m so grateful for a Sunday with little on our calendar other than catching up around the house. My calendar has been a crazy mess while we were in New York and I haven’t straightened my atelier for a couple of weeks and there’s a couple of weeks of laundry to do and I will get it done. Probably not all today. And that’s fine.

We both came home from New York with some cruddy sinus thing and I haven’t had a minute to stop and rest until today. We had a great Chamber event at Maine Arts Academy on Wednesday evening and I am totally thrilled with everything the staff did for that event. It was perfect from start to finish. The food, the staff who volunteered, the entertainment, all of it! I came home Wednesday night and fell right into bed. Thursday I worked in the yarn shop, Friday I taught knitting and on Saturday I was back in the shop for a big celebration of Malabrigo yarn’s 20th anniversary. We were so busy and I’m so grateful that Carol, one of my co-worker friends, had the idea to have two of us on with the owner, Joyce. We were certainly busy enough for the three of us. Last night I came home and couldn’t wait to go to be but I can’t make myself sleep at 6:30pm. Ha! Ha!

This morning we woke up and had a cup of coffee, inside now, and then I decided to take myself to the walk-in doc-in-a-box to see if I can get some medicine for this sinus thing that I’ve had for ten days. Happily, that was a success and I am looking forward to feeling much better any day now.

Meanwhile, I have done some knitting and made a little progress (and cast on a new project, too.) The first thing I did was finish the Billie pants for my grandson. I made these in a really nice shade of green that my bonus daughter picked out. The pants are adorable BUT I didn’t think well and need one more ball to make the sweater to match. I’ll order one ball today and can still get the wee sweater knitted in good time.

I love the yarn and hope it’ll hold up to washing and drying. AND he’s growing so fast, they’ll likely be too small before they’re worn out. The yarn is next-to-skin soft and I love the color, too. I just have to block them and trim the ends that are all woven in.

I found these mittens online and thought they were so pretty. The cuff is unique and I had this cake of Malabrigo Rios that was wound at the store and then the person didn’t want it. We typically don’t sell yarn once it’s caked so the boss handed it to me. So, I cast on thinking that these will be great for the winter and they’re fingerless mitts that are convertible (they’ll have a mitten tip attached) so they’re great for my morning drive to work in the earlier part of the winter. I’ve gotten the majority of the two mitts finished in a day or two and am enjoying the simplicity of this project.

I’ve got to attack my daughter’s colorwork mitts again this weekend and next week and try to get them finished so she can wear them. They’re a challenging pattern that is best worked on in the morning with a fresh, rested mind. I’ll try them tomorrow after a bit of time on my meds and see how far I can get. I am making progress.

And now I look ahead to Christmas knitting of which I am not doing a ton. I have a sweater to make for Sylvie and I think I am going to knit the Jamberry Cardigan for her but in Christmas colors (red being the main color with green and white accents in the yoke.) AND then I will likely make the same sweater in the pattern colors because she loves purple so much and she loves the book, too. I’ve already bought the yarn for both sweaters in Berroco Vintage DK.

I have traditionally knitted a pair of socks for my hubby’s stocking and I will try to get a pair done without him knowing I’m making them. I’ve still got a few balls of worsted weight sock wool that I’ve worked with for years and I think I know which pattern I want to knit to make it fun – not the plain vanilla socks I often knit for him. More on these later.

I’ve not made a pair of October socks and I’m not beating myself up about it. I have had a lot going on. This week I can play a little catch up but I’ll make my hubby’s Christmas socks my November pair and then I have some special Christmas sock yarn and I’ll make another pair in December, perhaps. I also promised bigger socks to our granddaughter because she loves my handknit socks. Especially the purple ones.

WIP list: Noah the Horse, my daughter’s fingerless mitts, the pink mittens with embroidery, my Poet sweater which as been sitting very idle and I’m sure there are others. I need to pull all of my yarn out of my shelves and clean up a few spider webs that I can see. I’ve never had spider webs in my studio before. Go figure. Think I can say they’re Halloween decorations?

Gone knitting!