If I forgot to wish anyone a Happy Thanksgiving this week, please forgive me. I’m still living in early October, with loads of time before the holidays. Yet, here they are, despite my best efforts to stretch out my favorite time of year, which is pre-holiday autumn. Now that Halloween is in the rearview, that means that Eating Season is in full swing and will not end until the day after Easter, with temptation everywhere all the time and resistance at its annual low. All the eating holidays, from Halloween, through Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, and Easter, bunch up into about 4 and a half months and heaven help the jeans I just squoze into this morning for the first time in 2 years.
Speaking of holidays, we will be closed Thursday and Friday this week, open Wednesday and Saturday regular hours. And, while I’m at it, we will be closed from Dec. 25 through January 4. I will be saying a jubilant goodbye to 2021, a year that, in my opinion, absolutely sucked.
Okay, no more whining. For now. I’m quite pleased because my Morning Rituals sweater class has done so very well, exceeding my expectations and making beautiful sweaters. I’m hoping that several will be worn on December 5th, which was to have been our last class but will now be a get-together that everyone is invited to, to work on projects, show off what you’ve made this year, and share some knitterly companionship. We’ll be there from 1- 4 pm and I hope you’ll come!
I’m also pleased that both the Morning Rituals sweaters I made are complete. In this pic, the gray has been blocked, and the beige, from a fluffier yarn, hasn’t been. I hope blocking tames down the poufiness just a bit.
Yes, there is a gray sweater there. This is not one of those pictures where you have to unfocus your eyes to see a hidden image.
I also finished a project I’ve been wanting to do for a while, which was to re-write the Napa Pullover pattern. This is a pattern I wrote in 2008 for a big cozy pullover and lots of people have made it over the years. It was boxy (still is) and worked flat, with seams. I re-wrote it to make it circular knitting for the most part, no seams, added short rows to shape the shoulders a bit so that it hangs better and scaled the depth and width of the collar down just a bit.
I can’t show you the old photo because it’s so old that this computer can’t translate it into anything but big fuzzy chunks, but here’s the new version, which I happily knit in Kelbourne Woolens’ Lucky Tweed:
It would be beautiful in wooly Homestead and stunning in Stargazer Brushed, and we have a few other choices. I hope you’ll try it out! Since I re-wrote as I knitted, it would be good to have someone else test out the instructions.
I will be working on the new class schedule now, and hope to have it up on our class page for your consideration between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Karen and Deb both know what they’re going to teach. Goes who is the hold-up? My problem is that I’ve knit so many big consuming sweaters lately that I can’t settle on another. So maybe I will be doing some interesting little projects for a while, with a sweater to follow in the late winter timeframe. I’m on the lookout!! Meanwhile, here is a little teaser from one of Karen’s class projects:
If you just said, OMG, I have to learn how to do that, I am with you, sister! (Or brother…!)
Oh, yes, and Happy Thanksgiving!