This is a picture of my newphew, Geoff, wearing the toque I made for him last Christmas. This pattern is so cool - I enjoy making it over and over with different colour combinations. Found it in some magazine a few years ago.

OK - this one is a bit strange but I feel obligated to post the link. My friend, Scott, sent it to me. Click here to see an old lady knitting . . .

Another great free pattern

From knitting FOs ...

This pattern was fun to knit and very fast. I found it here. I'm not sure but it may have been a link from Knitter's Review. Anyway, it knitted up in a week and I was able to give it to my friend, Susanna. She has a very CUTE little boy, Ethan. I will definitely make this pattern again. What I love about it is that it's made in one piece - no seams to sew - and starts from the top down. The pattern tells you where to put the button holes so you just keep knitting with no stops to calculate anything. My kind of pattern.

It finally made it!

I sent a package to our nephews in Australia on August 8 and 3 (yes THREE) months later it arrived ! ! ! I checked with the post office at 2 months and they said it was too early to panic. TOO EARLY! It's now summer in Sydney and I sent two sweaters - one made out of WOOL ! I've learned my lesson - no more Canada Post - from now on I'll be using FedEx or Purolater. I hope the boys don't grow too quickly or they may never get to wear the sweaters made for them by their favorite Auntie Kathy!

I also upgraded to the new Blogger. Hopefully all the features will work the same. It took me quite a while to get all my add on doo-dads to work and some don't work as well as I want. O well - it is a beta upgrade so I shouldn't complain!

Check this out!

I was on another blog and found this from YouTube about men knitting - It's great . . .

Remember me?

It's been ages since I last posted - yet I've been power knitting like crazy. Our Christmas Gifts for the homeless of our city (Toronto) need to be completed by Nov. 21. There are SOOOOOOOOO many of us knitting - myself included. We have scarves, hats and mitts galore. They are beautiful. Last week four of us worked on putting the sets together - we had SO much fun. We were trying on the hats and wearing them as we worked. Jennifer actually saw a set (or was it two sets?) that she couldn't part with. Now she's has to shop for something to replace it since it was intended to go in our Christmas packages! I believe they were made by one of our super knitters/crocheters Francette. I think Francette made at least tweleve hats & scarf sets. Ricky made about the same number of hats/scarves/mitts and Pat B made eighteen complete sets! I know we have over 100 by now the we have another week and a half to go. It's amazing.

PLUS, I am trying to get some Christmas knitting completed as well. My hands just don't move as quickly as they use to and it's getting me down. Thankfully, our weather hasn't been too cold so my joints are still working. I should have some pictures to post very soon. Don't want to spoil any surprises but - my niece, Erin, finally has a completed birthday gift - woo hoo!