Startitis, Un-knitting And Cocktail Hour
LOVE this color, teal and brown. Forgot I had this yarn, but came across it the other day when cleaning out my office area (or at least partially). Decided the startitis I've had lately that I've been trying ignore just kicked in when I spotted this yarn. I wanted to use the multi-directional scarf pattern. You start with a triangle (what you see at the top where you see more brownish.........then when it's the size you need you start doing short rows (what you see on the bottom) and up to the ridge.......which is the join of the 2 triangles. You go back and forth. This pattern recommends using shaded, self striping yarn, or variegated yarn; but.......I found this yarn just didn't seem to change color frequently enough to see the changes in direction? Soooooooooo, after knitting several hours, I did the un-knitting. Will put this yarn aside and use for something else, as I really wanted to do this pattern.
Potato Chip Scarf has grown quite a bit since the last picture. It's now 38 inches. So am chipping away, snarky pun.
Have mentioned I don't decorate a lot and I don't start early; but I do love cocktail hour, cocktail napkins........and well this seemed a good place to start.
The snow-flake napkin holder is on top of the wine rack in the dining room..so decorating did begin about 10 days ago.
Before the cocktail napkins were switched out, a Manhattan and fancy nuts cocktail evening.
Then another night it was an Old Fashion and chips and guacamole night. We do enjoy our cocktail hours. We sit and talk without the tv on, tell each other about our days. Then we move onto dinner.
On the Old Fashion, Chips and Guacamole night, we had chicken enchilada's. First time I've made it, turned out yummy and will be repeated. Found black beans with jalepeno's and lime, very tasty. Definitely a repeat.
And leaving you with a bit of humor. I'm not a fan of winter so this had me nodding in agreement.
I don't decorate much either. Used to put up a tree but haven't the past couple of years. I usually put out a few nativities but haven't even gotten those out as they're hard to get to. I bought a magnetic one for the freezer for the kids and I have a wreath that stays on my door year round with a moose. Your napkins are cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the visit Sandie. I finally got around to getting the tree up, will post pictures later and did the mantel and got the nativity up and wreath on the door and a few other things, just not as much as I used to. Thanks on the napkins, I find them fun. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
DeleteIt is Christmas Eve here. The evening of Christmas Eve. And virtually no decorating has happened. Oh the shame of it.
ReplyDeleteI do like winter, and as we swelter in a particularly vicious summer I envy people on the other side of the world.
I hope that you and yours have a wonderful Christmas - and I may steal your cocktail evenings...
Thanks for the visit, you're making me feel better about how long I took to decorate. I'll trade you my winter for your summer and warmer temps, lol. If only it were that easy.
ReplyDeleteThat is a unique color of yarn. I like it.
ReplyDeleteFunny about driving in the winter - go south until you see palm trees. Sounds like good advice to me!
The potato chip scarf is super fun. I like teal and brown together as well.
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