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This is a
smaller retreat, probably around 40 participants and it’s in a beautiful
setting with lots of birds and wildlife. There are porches for sitting and
knitting. There are trails for hiking and birding!
Happy New
Year!
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Pipeliner Notes
Thank you to
everyone who sent me Christmas cards. That was so kind of you. I really enjoyed
going over them and remembering good times online and in person with some of
you.
Events and Announcements
Spring Retreat March 13-14. (with March 12
as optional Yarn Crawl Fun Day).
Announcing
Knitting Pipeline Georgia Retreat!
April 12-15, 2015
(Sunday 2:00 PM through Wed 10:00 AM
563
Elliott Trail
Mansfield
GA 30055
(east of
Atlanta, about 1 hour from airport))
Your
registration fee includes:
- Single, Double, or Triple Room (own bed) and private
bath with tub and shower
- All meals from Sunday dinner through Wed breakfast
- Knitting Pipeline Retreat Tote Bag
- and all the knitting and fiber fun we can pack into 3 days!
Double Occupancy $330.00
Single Occupancy $430.00
Triple $300.00
Nature Notes
We have a 6”
blanket of snow and sub zero temperatures right now in Central Illinois. The
wind is blowing the snow over the roads and fields, forming sculpted drifts. I
am looking out of my window at sunset. The snow looks almost blue in this
light. Winter sunsets are magnificent. Everything seems magnified in color and intensity.
This morning the moon was visible in the western sky until well after sunrise,
about 7:30 AM. I watched this moon as I stretched and did a bit of yoga. With
the wind blowing and the extreme cold I opted to stretch instead of walk. I can
handle the cold but the cold and the wind combined is tough. Plus there is
packed down snow and ice which makes walking difficult.
We are
seeing a lot of fox lately. One day before Christmas I pulled out of the
driveway and saw a fox playing with a smaller animal, possibly a mouse or vole,
in the vacant lot next to us. I grabbed my camera phone but I had the message
that it was too full to take a photo. I’ve finally remedied that situation. I
had at least 2 minutes or longer to get a photo and I couldn’t delete enough
photos fast enough. Another day I saw a fox come right up to the herb garden
next to the house. He or she sniffed around the plants and trotted off.
A snowfall
dresses up the bare trees as if they are going to a ball. Suddenly everything
looks more pure. The birds stand out against the white backdrop. Cardinals are
starting to come in groups to the feeders though not yet in the large flocks of
30 or more that we see later in the winter months. I’m hoping our resident
Cooper’s Hawk is not keeping birds away or finding too many tasty treats at the
feeders.
Our quote
this week is from Benjamin Franklin's 1755 Poor Richard's Almanac,
December
Be at War with your Vices,
at Peace with your Neighbours,
and let every New-Year find you a better
Man.
~Quoted in Benjamin Franklin's 1755 Poor Richard's
Almanac, December
Needle Notes
Worked great
at package decorations/ornaments!
Tiny
Top-Down Sweater and Cardigan by Susan B Anderson
I like to
finish up all my works in progress by Dec 31 so I start fresh but I was not
able to do that this year. I had to put my Moses Hoodie by Amy Christoffers
aside so I could finish Christmas knitting. You will hear about that next week
I hope. It’s really hard for me to stop in the middle or near the end of a
project but I could see I had to do that.
Easy Folded
Poncho by Churchmouse Yarns and Teas
Knitter’s
Pride Nova Cubic Circular Needle about $9 each
Knitter's
Pride Nova Cubics Knitting Needles I
recommend trying these needles if you have hand fatigue.
Meanwhile in
December I was knitting along with a group of friends on the Lila
and Claudine’s Advent Scarf by Lila Agnew.
I would say that this year’s project would be
for intermediate knitters. Written and charted but a little unconventional in
the presentation which we all became accustomed to. It was an exercise in chart
reading and interpretation and I think when you figure out a new pattern every
day your pattern reading skills naturally improve.
I used
Quince & Co Finch in the Egret colorway which is cream color. I used about
125 g.
Fish Hat
(Dead or Alive?) by Thelma Egberts
PrairiePiper’s
Live Fish Hat
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| Isn't this the best reaction ever? Dead Fish Hat scores! |
Pattern
calls for double points but it easily fits on a short circular, 16” until you
get about ½ way through the decreases. It’s a lot easier to knit than I thought
it would be. Only a little bit of short row shaping at the beginning and pretty
much smooth sailing after that.
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| Dead Fish Hat on way to airport |
After I
finished Peter’s hat I went back to the smaller hat and made a Live Fish Hat
for my great nephew. It's too big for him but his daddy likes it.
In The Pipeline
Little
Skein in the Big Wool Anne-along on Instagram and on Anne’s blog
Did
Santa bring you a Little Skein Anne of Green Gables kit? Aren’t you lucky?
A happy New
Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest
Have a great
week, haste ye back, and hold your knitting close.
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