Knit It All: Episode 2, DOGGIE STYLE

Project number two is also complete.
Its the perfect time to knit. It is raining cats and dogs and "Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" is on. To top it off, I made "Double Layer Pumpkin Pie" to take to Jane's tomorrow night. Let me say, I sampled the goods...YUMMY. The recipe can be found in the November issue of Real Simple magazine.

Anyway, back to the yarn.

Project #2: Doggie Style Hat
Yarn: Still River Mill (sales@stillriver.com) Seven Sammys 50% Merino, 50% Samoyed (Yes, Sled Dog). Hand Dyed in this awesome varigated colorway
Behold!!!

Hat in progress...the photo is not blurry, the yarn is THAT lofty. It does feel a bit like angora: when knitting and when the fiber gets up your nose

The finished hat! It is blocking on my giant pumpkin tea light holder. I was VERY worried about running out of yarn, as the skein was only 80 yards! So I did the decreases very quickly. End result was the hat was about 1/2 inch short of the bottom of my ear. I do believe the yarn has blocked out a bit on the pumpkin blocker. I decided to add the "I" cord and tassle to make it even MORE sassy. I love it! It is SO warm and seems to drying VERY quickly. The Samoyed gives the fiber a water resistant quality. I purchased some Manos Wednesday at Knitting Circle: Colorway "Caribe" that is almost an EXACT match to the Seven Sammys. It will become a short row scarf.

Next up from the Rhinebeck Collection: Reversable Cable Scarf from Melissa Leapmen's new book, Cables Untangled in my "Lamby" Alpaca.

Did everyone hear about the ANNE EXTRAVAGANZA at knitting circle. Holy crap! Lisa had 10 skeins x 10 colorwats of ANNE! TEN! I bought three "Indira Ghandi" and 2 skeins for mom who is ready to dive into lace knitting. I'm going to make a lace mobeius from the other new book on the block, Arctic Lace.

Back to the needles and beagles and Charlie Brown...

PS Christmas Knitting Progress: Stalled.