Happy Thanksgiving

My mom cooked the turkey and most everything else. I made a pecan pie, sweet potato supreme and some jello salad. I grew the green beans, so that counts for something, maybe. . .

It was a month of turkey crafting for me.

I embroidered another towel. Pattern from Here. She already has her December pattern posted. I'll get right on that.

I made this set of Thanksgiving dish cloths as a gift for my mom, since she was hosting. Pattern is a Ravelry download. A fun project and I hated keeping them secret from her.

Did she use them to wash up after Thanksgiving? Of course not.

Not much shopping for us, my brother makes his special black fruitcake on the day after Thanksgiving. It has to soak in bourbon before he sends it out. Saw New Moon with a friend and her daughter, it was fun and funnier than the Twilight movie.

Bought a dress for dh's company formal. I'm not making anything this year. It's going to be the last party, which is kind of sad, the company has been sold. I bought some gorgeous shoes and a bag at Shoe Gallery this morning. A great place to go for accessories. . .

Christmas Illusions

I spent the holidays at my ILs and my parents, so I did quite a bit of knitting during the down times. (Amazing how much more time you have if you're not in charge of cooking and cleaning.) I couldn't get enough of the illusion cloths.

I'm finding that I hate to use stockinette dishcloths, I only like them if they're garter stitch, because they're thicker and they don't roll up. That limits the number of designs to knit, however, and I can't make only Grandma's Favorite or I would die of boredom.

I gave them all away except for the candy cane.

I'm glad to be home, and we've been cleaning out (or dh has) and putting away the Christmas stuff. I made hoppin' john and spinach casserole yesterday so we could have a lot of green and jingling money this year.

Dd is at horse camp this week, visiting a horse rescue today in the rain. Ds is bored with everything already, so he's having a friend over this afternoon. I rented some movies, so I hope to knit and watch all weekend. It's supposed to rain, so it might be a perfect time.

HalloWashcloths

Y'all know I love making wash/dishcloths. I made these back in the spring sometime, but thought I would post them now in case anyone wanted to make some. All the patterns are free ones that I found online. Wouldn't it be great if someone (hey Leisure Arts!) put together a book of these? It would be wonderful to have them all in one place. With that in mind, I'll try to link all the patterns.



I got the pattern here but it looks like she may have taken it down, sorry. I had a hard time getting a good photo of the black yarn, but maybe you can see it well enough.




Pumpkin Washcloth. This one came out a bit smaller than the others, but it's from a different source.



The Batty Dishcloth came from the same site as the black cat, the ghost and the skull.



Skully dishcloth.



Again, the pattern came from here but I can't find it now.



Candy Corn Illusion. My kids really love this one, they've been playing with it, trying to see the illusion.

Hope you have as much fun with these as I did. Sorry I couldn't find two of the patterns, but I bet with a little googling you can find something similar, there are tons of great free patterns out there.