stitching dilemma

I want to stitch all of these…NOW!

A big pot of comfort :0)

new and not so new

Only one week til we pull out the Christmas decorations.  I’d like to see a few new things on the tree.  I was thinking of stitching up this pretty new design from Beehive Needlworks, but not sure if I should stitch it in white on red or in red on white…. as you can see I have a few things to keep me company while I stitch – that’s the new sock monkey ornament I tweeted about.  I’d also like to knit a few more of these little mittens.  It took me ages to do one last year but since I have a year more worth of knitting practice under my belt, perhaps it will go better this year.

What do you think of my ‘new’ boudoir chair??  It’s quite a sight isn’t it?  This has migrated from Amber’s room to mine.  Although it’s quite hideous to look at, it is marvelously comfy.  It’s also the most coveted spot to lounge for the cats.  Look at sneaky Yzma ready to remove Ophelia from the seat of honor!

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You can find Cranberry Deer Pinkeep on this page at the webshop. The linen shown is Aztec Red and Linen (color name) 30 count Weeks.

Rocky Mountain Wednesdays (belated)

A day late here….I give you Rocky Mountain Wednesdays on Thursday this week – I guess that’s better than not at all.

A few Sundays ago Jerry, Ethan, and I drove up to Gross Dam which is near Eldorado Springs. That’s the CU campus in Boulder that you see, its a very winding road that takes you up out of Boulder to the Dam. It was a cool and pretty day and we had a very nice drive. We got home just in time for a really yummy pasta dinner made by Amber.

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PS – Happy Birthday to my brother Fred!

cuddle up

From Lion Brand Yarns- free Warm Up America knitting pattern

Here is the little patchwork I was finishing up this weekend. I used part of a Mill House Inn charm pack. I have a bunch of these on hand if you are looking for them (just email me), I just never got around to listing them at Etsy or my webshop.

I came across this free knitted blanket pattern. I started a block last night and learned a new stitch. I hope to learn another new stitch for block #2 soon. Maybe this will be done by next winter!  I’m leaning toward making a throw which is much smaller than a blanket. . .

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weekend wrap up

Saturday was dark and grey, I finished up a small quilt for someone (look at that clean worktable)!  Ophelia was a big help.

and I thought about starting this…..

Sunday we woke up to lots of snow

and I stitched a little of this

and a little of this (an anniversary keepsake)

and my worktable is a big bad mess again!

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I do stitch

Although I haven’t found a moment – I do stitch, and I plan to stitch. In fact I plan to put aside dedicated time this weekend to make progress on this sampler. I hope to have great things to report on Monday!!

At least three nights this past week I turned out my bedside lamp and thought – I really should have blogged today. It has been a very nice week but very busy too. I feel like I’m getting my energy back and have made good progress on many things. I have been kept nicely busy all day and evening and felt like I could keep up. It is a good feeling.

Jerry and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary on Tuesday. We visited a little town near Denver called Morrison. I hadn’t been there for about ten years. Most of the nice rustic shops I remembered are now what I call Boulder Hippie Shops sadly. The Morrison Country Store was lovely however. They had filled the shop with Christmas things and it was wonderful to look through. I brought home a treat as you can see – very tasty on warm biscuits!!

We visited Red Rocks Park. I thought I was going to need my inhaler after climbing this little ramp but actually did very well without it. You could see Denver from the top. This ramp leads to the Red Rock Amphitheater which seats almost 10,000. You can read more about it here. By sunset we were headed home to a local restaurant for a nice dinner and then browsed a bookshop for the rest of the evening – a very nice day.

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autumn with tea

Making up for my lack of blogging lately today! Thank you again for the get well wishes. I’ve had to start another round of antibiotics, still lots of coughing and a fever, not feeling quite as good as I thought I was :0(

We are having a beautiful Autumn day yet again. The weather has been wonderfully warm (in the 70s). They’ve been mowing and baling hay over the fence, you can just see the wagon out picking up bales on my first knitting photo. As to the knitting, this is my little wool scarf project. I’m very much an amateur knitter. This pattern just alternates between knit and pearl but I’ve still managed to flub it up – you can see where my zigs (or maybe my zags) are a bit wobbly. I’m having fun either way.

I finished up the tree that gave me so much trouble on Red House Sampler, the leaves went very well. I added another bit of the border. I did put in some other stitches but they were all wrong and had to come back out.

Here is my little care/comfort package from the cheese shop. There’s also some brie nestled in there you can’t quite see – and my replacement MP3 player – I’m so happy to have that back. More importantly you can see the new tea cozy here from Impie, Hattie & Bea. It comes in two prints and co-ordinates perfectly with The Tea Room from Country Cottage Needleworks. I have both prints at the webshop and remember there is free shipping this weekend!

Another little photo of Fall, most of the squirrels in town look like the average squirrel, now and then you see these pretty black ones too.

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