Kittens!  I decided not to bombard you with posts tomorrow.  I’ve slowed down a touch on my knitting this last week, and I doubt I’ll work on anything further than I already have.  I may as well do my monthly yardage tally post today.

We’re all doing fine after Sandy hit last night.  She ended up fizzling out before she could do any real damage here. We had some high winds for about 6 hours last night, but by 4 am, it was calm and clear again.  Today we’re even seeing some blue skies.  I hope everyone out there on the East Coast is as fortunate as we were.  I’ve been thinking about all of you. ♥

For as much as I knit this month, that number is disappointingly low.  Not that it matters, but it’s a pride issue for me.  Just under half of it was in socks (which let’s face it, are seriously time consuming for little yardage used), a quarter of it was the wide stripes blanket o’ doom, and the other quarter was small objects like mittens and a toy.  I may be the world’s slowest toy knitter.  But I did manage to finish quite a few projects and this first month of Q4 Stashdown, I’m doing really well.  I’m mean really well.  I’m looking to save a little face when all is said and done if November and December are more of the same. Yowza.

I hope you are all well today, kittens, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.  (Sick preschooler permitting.  *knocks on wood*)

Kittens!  I need your help making this decision.  I can’t help but feel that making a group would be putting the cart before the horse…but it seems like other podcasts have groups made at the same time.  What should I do?!

EDIT: I have since removed the poll since it’s been causing issues with my blog layout. Any opinions, please post a comment. Thank you! 🙂

This is what’s happened to my lovely view, Kittens. Just a week ago, there were still pretty golden leaves all over those trees, and now, you can see hints of winter in them.

Today I took my Ghastly Uma out into the wild.  Even with short sleeves, it’s quite warm.  Too warm for the house at the moment, but I suspect that in winter, it will make an excellent house sweater.

Life is never boring with a Shiba Inu, which are crazy chewers. This poor toy did not make it even 2 hours before Tala managed to open its head and pull out all of the stuffing. It’s like a crime scene, and I’m some sort of CSI documenting the carnage.  (These toys are rated at a 7 or 8 on the toughness scale; I can not imagine how quickly she’d rip open a standard toy.)  She takes so much glee in ripping the insides out of these toys.

And that’s my Saturday!  I hope it’s treating you all well!

…and more changes to my view.  Soon, there will be no more pretty leaves to gaze at while I take Tala out for bathroom breaks.   This makes me a little sad, but I’ve been enjoying the gasps of wonder from my children who have never seen seasonal changes like this before.  To them, this is all magical and new.  In Alabama and Texas, when autumn  early winter arrived, the leaves would go from green to brown and just fall off the trees.  None of the pretty transitional stuff you see here.

I hope no one minds that this year I’ve been posting so many scenery pictures.  After almost a decade without, it seems a bit magical to me as well. ♥

Just something pretty to look at today, kittens.

Kittens!  I am taking a break from the video entries this week to give myself a chance to better organize my notes and maybe have an FO for you next week.  I didn’t finish anything and my current WIPs are not too interesting: it would have been a pretty short boring show. 😉  [And I kinda sorta want to go to a knit date tonight and editing the entries always takes me longer than planned.  So um, hiatus for a week!]

That doesn’t mean I can’t share my WIPs with you, though. ♥

Behold!  You may recognize the Trick Or Treat Socks and see the start of Pinkie Pie socks for my daughter (I started those while meeting a bunch of lovely ladies that all live within BLOCKS of me on post…crazy!).  The brown square is part of a collaborative blanket knit.  I mostly knit socks this week.  This isn’t a bad thing, but socks often have so little to show for them.  Last night, I finally pulled out the Wide Striped Blanket O’ Doom and worked 5 rows of that, and I’ve even been quilting a few lines a day on that languishing bed quilt.  About time too–it’s been cold here already.  I think I see many hand knit/crocheted/sewn blankets in my future.

So that’s been my week: how have you all been?  Keeping warm?

…into the future.  The view outside my window is changing daily.  Gotta love that! ♥