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A (small) Heap of Hats

We're on a little roll with our hats for the homeless. Thanks to Susan for a couple of warm beauties.

With the lovely hats from lovely Susan and a couple I finished up this week, I felt as if we were off to a good start. But! It got off to a better start than I could have imagined! Get this for lucky— Thursday night I dashed into the LYS (with another Susan) and asked Suzanne-the-Wonderful-Owner if we could designate the shop as a collection point, and she agreed, and pointed to a STACK of hats that someone else had organized a knitalong for at some other point in time. Those hats were never picked up, she said, and so now there is a bigger than small HEAP of warm headgear! It's been near or at freezing the past couple of nights, so these are all going to be very useful. BTW, the red hat is a Bea Ellis design, Flenten, and the gray and red is knit from charts from Knitters No. 53. Tamara, one of the founding members of the League of Extraordinary Austin Knitters, created a button for this project; it's in the sidebar. Thanks, you gorgeous knitters!

Meanwhile, from another compassionate knitter are these links for phone cards and other needed items for troops. Thank you, Shelley.

Air Bê-ê-êtê!

A perennially brilliant dearie sent me a box of goodies Thursday that left me simply flabbergasted!

Flabbergasted, I say!

There was a goodie inside that made me howl, but I can't show you yet per an agreement with the goodie-er. Being the goodie-ee is tough sometimes :-)

Pups

We're happy (as ever) that it is Friday, because that means we have big juicy blocks of knitting time coming on Saturday and Sunday. Wow! Whoever invented weekends was one brilliant humanitarian.

Get your knit on! Only 21 gift-knitting days left!

Knitting up a storm

We have a plethora of small projects happening here on multiple sets of needles. Yet we have no photos. Maybe tomorrow! In the meantime, taking a break from getting the pattern established in a laceweight mohair piece, we came across this excellent website on Oriental Carpets. Now, we are not about to begin knitting these extraordinary things, but we're big fans of the explanations and illustrations of symmetry and asymmetry found at the website. What a wonderful site for thinking about patterns in stranded knitting.

Pups

A sunny weekend was very much enjoyed by all. Mike was especially happy about the abundance of rays. Here's the happy beastie.

And yes! He did need a bath after all that enjoyment! Did you have a lovely weekend? Were you able to roll about in the sun? How's your week going so far? What are you knitting? Did you buy exceptionally fabulous knit-gift tags? I did, and they are so cool that I'm not sure I will be able to bear to part with any one of them :-) Simply fabulous!

We're wishing you a lovely Tuesday with plenty of knitting time. Cheers!