I am currently almost halfway done with my daughter's Christmas stocking:

I really like the purple shades. Purple isn't my favorite color, but it's up there as one of my favs. You'd never know it from all the purple stuff I'm knitting my daughter.

Here she is in the hooded sweater I knitted her this Spring:


Today, I got yarn from Patternworks, Plymouth Encore in Cocoa:

to make my son this:

Labels: Animal vests, children's knits, holiday knitting

So last night I'm looking at the calendar and my heart kind of sinks. I won't be able to make the Boston Knit-Out this year--already promised my friend I'd go to her brother-in-law's 40th. It's sad because now I'll have to wait another whole year to go. . . Not to say that the cookout/party won't be real fun, but I've been looking forward to the Knit-Out for a while now.

Labels: Knitting in the Boston MA area