Pumpkin Sunrise

As promised, I have some photos of the scarf all blocked and beautiful.  I am quite pleased with the scarf.  I soaking just makes the yarn super soft. The first photo is me taking a picture of me!  Quite a chore when you are by yourself.  I highly recommend knitting the Advent Calendar Scarf .  It is well written and the lace knitting was fun.

Well as I was guessing, I ran out of yarn.  I was knitting Day 22 and felt that I would not be able to repeat the 14 row pattern twice.  So I only did one repeat and then knit my final four rows of garter.  Yippee for me!  Here are pictures of day 17 through 22 (well half of 22). I already soaked the scarf this morning and it is currently blocking in the guest bedroom.  It should be dry by tonight.  So hopefully I can post some finished pictures in a day or two.  If you want to see some more beautiful Advent Calendar scarves, check out Girls in Sheep Clothing !

Today is the yarn along over at Ginny's blog-- Small Things .  Sometime during this day, I will make a cup of green tea and browse everyone's postings of what they are knitting on this week.  It is always inspirational and interesting to see what everyone is creating and what they are reading. I am still working on the Advent Calendar Scarf and am so close to completing it.  I am on Day 21 and I am also running out of yarn.  So it will be interesting to see if I can make it to day 24 or not.  It is already quite long enough so I will not be disappointed if I do run out of yarn.  I continue to read The Elegance of the Hedgehog .  Had you asked me two days ago if I liked it I would have said "ummmmmm" But yesterday, I was hooked on the plot line.  It is an interesting read, I think because it is translated from French, the sentence structure at times seems odd.  It is not a "light" read at all.

Some more photos of the Advent Calendar Scarf!  These are days twelve through sixteen: I just could not resist a photo of the best dog EVER!

Today is the yarn along that Ginny at Small Things  is hosting.  Wednesday has become one of my favorite days because I get to see what everyone else is knitting and reading! This week I started a new book The Elegance of the Hedgehog.   It is translated from French and so far it is interesting.  I have been wanting to read this book for quite some time and was happy to start it.  My knitting is pretty much the same.  However, I have finished with the body of the Seamless Hybrid Sweater......that means that I have started a sleeve!  Oh what joy to be speeding along on 38 stitches instead of 190 stitches!!  I have been working on the Calendar Scarf  which you can check out on my Ravelry project page.  I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.  Today my 17 year old son is home for the second day in a row from school cancellations because of SNOW. (I love the snow so I am not complaining).

Just a quick post of two more days of the calendar scarf.  I can honestly say I have not been working on it much this past weekend.  I am now on day 12, maybe this week I will have more lace knitting time!

I wish my pictures were perfect :)  I have completed the clues for day five through nine of the   Advent Calendar Scarf . This is such a fun project!  If you would like to see more scarves, please check out Girls in Sheep Clothing you will love what you see.