Winter Solstice

Happy Winter Solstice!
My favorite day of the year, we are starting to increase the amount of daylight.
Yeah for more daylight.

A Couple Completed Projects

 Knitted Baby Hat

1. Slippers
2. Not much progress in the knitting, lately.
3. Which means, there are quite a few unfinished projects.
4. I am knitting, some on most days.

Chuckanut Alpacas

The property of Chuckanut Alpacas has been sold.  I liked seeing all the alpacas in the different pens, but they have been moved.  I hope they found good homes, as it looks empty without the alpacas.

Knit Fit 3

Knit Fit is in it's third year and I have attended all three years.
Each year, I have taken at least one class.
And of course, made a purchases or two in the market.
The market had more vendors than last year and was nice.
A couple skeins followed me home.
Maybe next year, I will take a picture or two.

A Dog Nap

Patch and Meggen napping.  it is a dog's life.

Knitting

Seahawk colors knitted

In Spokane

Dorothy Ann, Patty and me.  I made a quick trip to Spokane, October 28.

Dogs

 Patch

 Meggen

Oz

The dogs and I go to Pam's house, during dialysis.

With the 3 dogs, this was a moment, there were all resting.

Halloween

Gary wore vampire teeth to dialysis on Halloween.

Snow Geese

The white in the background is all snow geese.

Migration

On October 27, I saw a field full of snow geese.  They were about 10 miles north of their winter home.
On November 2, I saw some trumpeter swans.  We will see them in the fields between home and town until spring time.

New Art

And it is not skin art.  It is a colored pencil drawing.  The yarn shop participated in the Art Walk series, this summer.  This was one of the featured pieces in the September.  Now, the challenge is to find the right wall space at home.

Single Sock

Not single sock syndrome.

Single sample socks for the yarn shop.

Top one was knit from the toe-up

Second sock for knit from the cuff down.

August 1998

Nicole, 6 mos old

Swatching

Test knit for upcoming projects.

Today

Gary and I went to lunch at the Edison Café.  I had a most beautiful Cobb Salad, I took a picture with my phone, (I thought).  As I was going to post the photo here.  Gary took a risk and tried the African Peanut Soup (and liked it) with his Rueben sandwich.  He said the soup went well with the sandwich, too.

Knitting

                                                           Waterfall Vest in progress

Finished Socks

Debbie Bliss

Wednesday evening, Debbie Bliss was at WildFibers to speak and show her new Autumn knitting pieces.  We fit 50 chairs into the shop and staying on the British theme, ice tea, jam tarts and cucumber sandwiches were served.  Wednesday was a cool, rainy day, people were able to try on sweaters.  Debbie was at Stitch and Pitch as well.

Stitch and Pitch in Seattle

Thursday Night at the baseball game with knitting.

Seattle lost to Baltimore.

The roof was open, but it was cold and breezy.

Today in Nicole's Garden

Contrast

Seahawks

Is it too early to think about the upcoming season for the Seahawks?  Just finished knitting a hat in the Seahawks colors.

July 1

Gary, Meggen and Patch.  Meggen wearing her thunder shirt, I hope it helps her with all the fireworks in our area. 

Knitting, hat and Phi Shawl

 baby hat

Phi shawl, colors are better in the folded shawl photo.  Used two colors, which were knit in prime numbers and the "golden mean". 

Nicole's Garden

                                                     Meggen helping in Nicole's Garden.

Knit Baby Sweater

A Bit of Color

Unnamed, so far

Picked her up on Friday, had 12 miles at that time.  Still under 200 miles and undecided about her name.  Her name is Zippy, the nav system is named Purl.

Oso Slide

Oso is about 35 miles from us.  We don't know anyone involved in the slide.  I do know some people, who know people that were in the tragic slide.
Our local vet clinic had a couple dogs, that required surgeries from injuries in the slide.  We donated to the clinic for the dogs' care, rather donating to the big corporations.  One dog had a compound fracture, the other dog had some major abrasions.  They were able to connect the dogs to their families, one is in the hospital in Seattle.

Colorful Scarf

Knitting in process

Purl

 

Meet Purl, completed on Feb. 28

B B King Concert

Scott and I waiting for B B and Lucille.



Spring

It is officially Equinox and a sunny day, today.
Daffodils are blooming!  Birds singing, including hummingbirds and bees buzzing.

Pi Day

2014, it is National Pi Day 3/14 and trying to post at 3:14.  kind of goofy

March 3

Check that off the bucket list.  Saw a BB King concert in Seattle.  His group included 8 musicians, drums, keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, 2 trumpeter players, 2 saxophone players, which one played the flute, too.  And of course, the star BB and Lucille.  There all wore tuxedos.
BB talked a fair bit, and featured his musicians, quite a lot.  His voice is still as sound as every and his playing with Lucille is strong.  What an amazing man at 88 years old.  There is lots of respect between him and his musicians.  His memory may be fading a bit, as he wanted to play You are my Sunshine, but the band leader said, we played it earlier.
It was an opportunity to salute my Dad on his birthday and to remember not too wait on the bucket list items.
Scott and Suzanne with birthdays on March 4, came for dinner and the concert.  We had a lovely dinner with time to visit.  I stayed in Seattle, had a nice breakfast, and then home

Today

Sixteen years ago, today little Nicole arrived into the world.  She was loved.  Her time in this world was short, as she will be in our hearts, always 10 1/2 years old, a fifth grader who played soccer.  Love you, miss you, Happy Birthday Nicole.

Knit

 Shoulder Cozy, a quick knit

Finished Knitting Projects

Spectra Shawl

 

Asymmetrical Cables Socks