Elves

Valda has been busy making Jolly Wee Elves. The pattern is from Churchmouse Yarns and you can purchase it on their website.

A snowman has joined the Jolly Wee Elves.  Last Christmas I knitted 20 of the elves, most of them given away with gifts, three wearing hockey shirts.  October this year I knitted a few more, two are Halloween witches with a sprig of thyme for a broom.  I started with a Woolstok Bundle and have used Rowan's tweed as well.  I really enjoy knitting these little elves

I want to thank Valda for sharing. I hadn’t thought of a snowman.

Here are Valda’s elves from last year. I love the elves in hockey sweaters. Valda’s email came at the perfect time. Mr. FedEx brought a box from Blue Sky Fibers today and we have more Woolstok Bundles.

This is the newest bundle called Holiday Snow. It has a few skeins of Brushed Suri.

Yesterday’s post was short. I was up early to make sure that all the discounts were correct on the website. Then we were crazy busy packing before the doors opened at noon. I was late getting home, had dinner, played some dominoes with dad, wrote a very quick post and then knit for 1/2 hour before bed.

I’m going to try and do better today.

The new Maker’s Canvas Tote from Della Q is great! I opened a black one for myself. It’s hanging in the store for now so that people can see it. Lynn and I were going to take it outside for pictures but the time got away from us.

Churchmouse released a new pattern today. This is the Colorwork Cap knit in Rowan Felted Tweed. You can purchase the pattern on the Churchmouse website.

The timing is perfect. We have Rowan Felted Tweed on sale until Monday.

A delicious taste of stranded colorwork, this cute cap is fun and engaging, and still simple enough for first time stranders! We’ve created a four-color motif, which—as is traditional—uses only two colors per row. Then, we came up with three different color palettes and six different charts (two charts for each palette). And then threw in one more ‘plain’ chart, so that you can make up your own colorway!

This Colorwork Cap shines in a finer DK-weight, warm and woolly yarn with a great color palette. So we picked perennial favorite Rowan Felted Tweed!

177 Clay

212 Peach

173 Duck Egg 

153 Phantom

190 Stone

216 French Mustard

207 Bottle Green

211 Black

151 Bilberry

161Avocado 

154 Ginger

205 Lotus Leaf

FINISHED SIZE

Approx. 20"/51cm around x 10"/25.5cm tall, after blocking.

YARN
4 skeins Rowan Felted Tweed (191 yds/175m each): 1 skein each in Colors A, B, C, D. 
Note: This is enough for at least three hats! Or approx. 110 yds/100m in Color A and 30 yds/27m each in Colors B, C and D in an equivalent DK-weight yarn, per hat.

We have a bit of snow flying at our house tonight. Beth can’t wait until Sunday morning when we should have snow on the ground. She is excited to see what Jackson does when he sees snow.