Yarn Along -25 September 2013

Well, this week’s Yarn Along is perfect timing.  Three months till Christmas and I’m sharing the last of the gifts for the Advent swap (well not quite true, I may do a little snowman ornament depending on what I find at Taste of the Valley to buy).

I finished the shawl for my swap partner.  This pattern was so easy and turned out beautifully.  It’s a crescent shape so will sit around the neck  easily.  It was cloudy so I had to take the picture inside, but the colours are fairly accurate (maybe a little less ‘pink’).  In person, Ella and I think this yarn reminds us of early Autumn up here in the Ottawa Valley.  I sure hope she likes it.

I knitted this apple to go in the apple cozy.  I can’t send fruit over the border (very dangerous) so I thought was a good alternative.

The little dolly I was really hemming and hawing over whether to try.  She’s a good size.  I don’t crochet much any more and I was afraid she would take too long.  Well, I guess I must crochet nearly as fast as I knit because I’m almost done.  She is so adorable if I do say so myself.  She’ll look very cute on Ella’s nature table for Halloween.

I actually have a new book to share with you.  It’s called Lace One-Skein Wonders: 101 Projects Celebrating the Possibilities of Lace and has some really beautiful patterns.  It even has a pattern by Mary Gildersleeve, the designer of the shawl I just finished.