Another Day, Another Sweater

A little knitting, a little sunning

Finally, a nearly finished knit!  This is the felted Prism bag, one more step closer to completion.  I now have the fabric and the handles for the bag....now comes the sewing!! ha ha ha haha.  Luckily I have a super fantastic sewing machine, and some free time coming this weekend.  Wish me luck!  By the way, this bag was photographed at a friend's house....I was house sitting for the weekend, and she has an older top loading washing machine...one cycle and it was done.

No Turkeys allowed

So this year Thanksgiving was at my house.  We had a nice group, good friends-good wine and NO Turkey.

If you are afraid of red meat, you need to look away now.

The rib roast was fabulous.  Only one of the group liked well done, so her endcut went back into the oven....yuk.

The wine of the evening was Goats Do Roam....kind of funny play on words, a fun wine from South Africa. 

I am still trying to recover from the extravaganza. 

Knitting Continues

So the stocking grows, and grows.  I am a bit concerned that the initial in the center won't be as visible with the variegated yarn.....so I might need to do some kind of topstitching to make it really stand out.  Obviously I have a ways to go....but I might actually finish this one before Christmas!  Little Susie won't care a bit about whether or not she gets a stocking this year....I can sub in the Sasquatch sock and she will be fine.  Annabel will be thrilled that hers is bigger.

Busy Weekend

Very busy busy over here, it's a wonder I get any knitting done. 

This is what woke me up at 5 this morning:

The waves have been booming out there for a few hours now.
Luckily on Saturday it was nice and calm....I went snorkeling in a little cove only accessible by climbing down over really rough lava rock.  Should I mention that I was barefoot?  I need to invest in some booties and different fins....that way I can climb over crazy lava rock with abandon...Ha!
So at any rate, I went with a friend...we had never snorkeled or been swimming together...as we walked up to this cove, she turned and remembered that we had never discussed how comfortable I am in the water...ha ha ha ha ha.  Good time to ask me as I am looking over the 15 foot drop to some good sized waves crashing on the little area where we are planning to enter the water. 
I am very comfortable in the water, but not so comfortable with waves bumping bashing me around on the rocks.  All ended well, no rock trauma, we dodged the waves on the way in and on the way out, so that part went well.  The little cove was fabulous, we saw lots of turtles....one of them was really quite large, and one was pretty small.  The small turtle was probably about 18 inches across his back...and the largest turtle was probably about 42 inches across his back.  I am saying he, but I don't really know which gender I should apply.  The really big turtle was in some pretty shallow water, complete with waves crashing on the reef, so I didn't get to close to that one.  This is what the turtles look like:

The race to christmas continues!!!

So the stocking is growing...literally.  My swatching gave me 7 sts per inch, now I am about 6 stitches per inch....and the thing is beautifully stretchy.  This is going to make a great Christmas stocking. 
So now I have the cuff and three inches of stocking leg knitted.
I love the crazy color combination....very bright.

Completion

So did I finish the bag before I started the stocking?  Of course not.
Here is the beginning of stocking number 1:

This is the cuff portion of the stocking, it will fold over the top of the body of the stocking.

I have about an inch of the body knitted:

I also managed to finish knitting the bag:

Knitting past the point of no return

Ok, so now I have knitted myself past the point of no return.  I have gotten to a place with this bag, a good place, I think....but still an uncomfortable place.  I have a timeline with this project, must finish completely by Thanksgiving so that I can get it in the mail to my Xmas Swap partner.  I am at the point in the project where I would normally put it down, and pick up something else to knit.  But I must continue to knit this bag.  I know I am a short attention span knitter, and that I must always seek new projects to keep my knitting brain excited and interested.  So what's the problem with finishing the knitting?  I don't know, perhaps I need to find a knitting therapist to help me with my knitting promiscuity. 
The point of no return  part means I have passed the point on the timeline where I can start another project and get it done for the swap.  I suppose I could be a sneaky cheater and order something handknit on Etsy and claim it as my own.  Wrong, that would be wrong, bad Sara.
So here I am...only 16 rows to go.  Maybe I can whip this out this afternoon....or maybe I will go to the beach.

Another Day Another Sunset

More Knitting

Believe it or not....more knitting!

I am deeply entrenched in stocking preparation.  Just as soon as the Prism bag comes off the needles, I need to be ready for The Race to Christmas Stocking Knit-a-thon.  I am hoping that I can dream up a design, ok...two designs, figure out if I will need more yarn...dye it, and then knit like mad until December 21 when the munchkins arrive.  I think the stockings will resemble the Sasquatch Sock of 2005...with slight variations that may or may not include the girls names. 
Wish me luck.

Maui Halloween

Ok, so I don't think I appear in any of the halloween coverage, I spent all of my Front Street time about 2 blocks north of the live feed....  Halloween in Lahaina
The party doesn't really get started until about 10, but the street is still full and crowded from the keiki parade at 5 until the street sweepers went through after midnight.