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I have just been steadily plugging along on a few things. I started an

Adrienne Vittadini pattern with classic elite provence yarn color japanese lilac. I bought it at craft essentials before they realized they were selling if for $6 less than everyone else. Unfortunately it’s the last large amount of any color that I have. I have lots of leftover hanks, some full, some partial. I love this yarn! But I won’t pay full price for it. That is the thriftiness coming out in me.

And of course I am working on Sadie’s blanket. Not as much as last week but it’s still on my chair & that is where it will stay until I finish it. I don’t care how dumpy and overrun it looks. I did get the green cotton boucle to make the fringe/edging. I am thinking it will either be loopy chain crochet or some other fun crochet edging. I will try a few different things & decide once the blanket is finished. I am going to do the fringe on 3 sides & leave the top plain like a normal bedspread would be. I think it will be cute and best of all, it matches Sadie’s personality perfectly!

I made a fun headband out of some left over shachenmayer microbig yarn. XO cables, nothing too fancy but with the stretchy yarn it is perfect! I think I will make a few more out of microspun that I have laying around. On that topic, my mom is an equestrian and she lives in Idaho. She also rides through November & it gets damn cold there! So my thought was, make a headband that had a wide, maybe even double thick yarn, section where it would cover her ears! I am going to test it out and see if I can get it just right then surprise her with a bunch of them that she can keep in her saddlebags.

Don’t you just love giving people handmade gifts that they love & actually brag about? I love it!! My parents seem to be the biggest Chauny-braggarts so they get the biggest, most illustrious christmas gifts this year! I love them, I am feeling a bit homesick for them right now so I will just knit them many things! Off I go!!