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Hat Tricks

Even with the holiday mail rush, two more sets of hats for homeless heads here in Austin arrived on Christmas Eve——wonderful hats that I'm so grateful for! With my latest hat finished, we have an honest to goodness hat trick. Anne sent four more warm and stranded beauties to join the four she had previously knit and sent, and Julia sent two that are soft and lofty and warm. All six are beautifully knit; observe!

Isn't that a terrific-looking bunch of hats? I leave it to your imagination to visualize them on veterans' heads. There is another arctic front anticipated here later in the week and so these hats are right on time. I'm amazed at the way the hats arrive. Sister delivers a dozen or so, then before I know it, there is another dozen ready to take downtown. Thank you very much, knitters, and thank you very very much, Anne and Julia! Julia also sent an adorable knitted sweater ornament that is decorating our puny Christmas tree even now. At the very last possible moment, I snapped and bought one of those pitiful little three-inch potted pines that you see wilting at grocery stores everywhere this time of year. Julia's sweater ornament helped mine look much more festive than you'd think that it could!

Sockelmössa?

A new dubbelmössa from self-patterning sock yarn is finished here; I don't know why this concept pleases me so much. When you punch the second hat into the first and, all of a sudden, have a lightweight but double-layer warm hat to wear, well, yes, I know I'm easily entertained. But how cool is that? Whee!

Another Unexpected Present!

Really! You are too good to me. I'm astonished at your generosity at all times, but lately, well! You've outdone yourselves! These arrived this afternoon:

Are those the most adorable pewter dachshunds you've ever seen? I'm enchanted. Amber sent these. I'm smitten! Amber has a new pup; have you seen her? While she was creating some new Knitting Tarot goodies and finishing knitted presents including her first steek and mailing pewter dachshunds to me and no doubt many other perfectly chosen delights to others, she also found time to knit matching coats for her pups Flannery and Ripley. Go look, but please do not buy up all the new fabulous bookplates until I figure out my correct email and password info :-)

Pups

The pups are happy but edgy; my son and almost-daughter-in-law are here, my son's dad, the moving van, a cousin, and Cousin Bear, the extra dachshund. With four dachshunds in the house and lots of packing and moving going on, every few moments there is an ARF that signals that someone is getting on someone-furry's remaining nerve. Overwhelmingly, though, it's grand to have a houseful of dogs and people. Moving day is Wednesday!

We'll be thinking of you and wishing you a happy new year!