High Fiber—Happy Hanukkah, Everyone!

Happy Hanukkah, everyone! Zachary and Daphne got to celebrate with "Bubbye" and "Zayde" by way of Skype. What would we do without Skype?

When they come here, we will celebrate Christmas. Lucky kids, get to have Hanukkah and Christmas both!

Speaking of Christmas, I have been busy working on the clothes for Daphne's Bitty Twins. I made two cardigan sweaters and some other clothes for the dolls. (See last week's post for the pajamas.)

They look pretty good in their new clothes:

The pattern for the cardigan is on my Ravelry page for the project here.

Here's the outfit for the girl, overalls trimmed with the same fabric as the shirt.

The mock Crocs I bought for the girl had straps I thought Zachary might eat, so I took them off. The boy's outfit was purchased during the spectacular Cyber Monday sale. ( I also dumped a bunch of $$$ on some yarn to make DH a new cardigan to replace the one he was painting the new bathroom in. That one, the old one, was purchased for him in...um...1985.)

Common Threads met at Georgette's house this week. Lynda has taken a class in weaving and has made this great scarf.

She also wove this great table runner using Noro yarn.

She says it was fun to learn, but she wouldn't buy a loom. She didn't enjoy the process as much as knitting and spinning. If she wants to weave, she can rent a loom. Several members of the group have their own looms, though. It's nice to be able to take a class, rent the loom during the class, and find out whether you really like the process enough to own your own loom.

Margareth has made some hats for Christmas presents. The pattern is the Wooly Bear Hand Knits Maple Leaves Hat.

It has what looks like a couple of rows of braid horizontally around the hat. The pattern explains how this is made. It looks pretty interesting.

She also is almost finished with this great sweater:

She was finishing the collar at our meeting.

I started a new BSJ for Soren. (You will have to scroll down if using the link.)

The yarn is KP's Comfy in "Serrano" and "Maize." No rush to finish. Soren is still too small for it.

One sleeve of the Dogwood Blossoms Cardigan is ready to sew on. I dropped it so I could finish the doll sweaters and get a good start on the new BSJ.

In other news, winter snows have arrived to Park City. If you're planning a ski vacation in our area, the ski areas are open and we are getting new snow now. The bathroom renovation hit a snag with the arrival of the snow. DH had planned on doing the sanding and staining of the doors and door trim outside. While it's possible to sand the doors in 16-degree weather, staining wouldn't be advisable, and blowing snow makes it impossible. So...we did a little furniture moving instead. Here's a look at the new hallway that leads to the master bath:

And the patung we got during the time we lived in Indonesia looks more at home in the shower than he did on our dresser. (He likes heat and humidity!)

It's looking pretty good, even though the lack of trim around the doors looks a little...unfinished. With any luck, we will have more to show next week.

What's on my needles: Besides the Dogwood Blossoms Cardigan, now the BSJ for Soren.
What's on my iPad: The Knit Wits Podcast is back! Still reading Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse.
What's in my wine glass: Amberhill Secret Blend Red, Vintage 2010. This rivals "Two-buck Chuck" for a great inexpensive wine!

Note: This blog post was produced entirely on the MacBook, using the iPad for photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for or cleaned.

Tags: BSJ, Hanukkah, baby, bathroom, doll, hat, knitting, remodel, renovation, sewing, More…weaving

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Comment by Peggy Stuart on December 16, 2012 at 12:52pm: Sounds like fun to me.

Comment by angelkarhu on December 15, 2012 at 5:03pm: I guess I was lucky enough to grow up in the middle of nowhere. Just a few runaway monkeys from OHSU research facility and occassional midnight visits from neighbors horses. Freaked me out everytime. I wasnt even in school yet but still dont like horses or chickens as I was the one who had to go get the eggs from barn.

Comment by Peggy Stuart on December 15, 2012 at 4:11pm: I think guns are more prevalent than they were when I was a kid, but I remember kids being kidnapped and murdered. I spent the first eight years in an inner-city area. A lot of bad stuff went on. Most young men were off in the war the first few years, though.

Comment by Beverly Roberts on December 15, 2012 at 10:19am: Despite the 24/7 news coverage, I do not think it is just that we hear about things more; there was never anything like this when I was a child. The worst things I recall was a neighbor who committed suicide with a shotgun, and of course President Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy's assassinations.

Comment by cherylbwaters on December 13, 2012 at 4:28pm: TRUE!!!

Comment by Peggy Stuart on December 13, 2012 at 4:27pm: We didn't use to have 24-hr. news channels. They have to cast a wide net to find stuff to keep people horrified and interested.

Comment by cherylbwaters on December 13, 2012 at 4:09pm: Yes, December is very high because a lot more people feel their depression more because it is supposed to be a time of joy and it is harder to accept that they don't feel this joy. All I can say is that in the 1970s, I never would have heard about this, nor would I have heard about Columbine. I would have heard about the Waco incident with the Mormons because it happened in Texas and involved the FBI.

Comment by angelkarhu on December 13, 2012 at 3:47pm: There were 3 deaths counting the one that did the shooting plus I think one injured.
Cheryl, I agree. We have more media coverage now than in past. And I think Dec. has the highest number of suicides and attempted suicides than any other month.

Comment by cherylbwaters on December 13, 2012 at 1:56pm: I agree, AB, but I also think because how big mass media has become, we also here more about these kind of events. Many of them weren't picked up by local news stations or newspapers. Now everyone has access to much more information out there. So I'm not sure there are more incidents percentage wise, just that we here more about them. Still a hard thing to accept.