Hattitude

I have fallen for tweed hats. Well, more specifically, I'm making the same hat over and over again in various tweedy yarns. The pattern is plain, but the tweed keeps it interesting.

Turkey Day was in New Jersey this year and it was a blast. There was a yummy turducken, with various sides.I did a moderate mount of baking, as planned.The top tier has pecan and lemon bars and the bottom tier has PB&J cookies and dulce de leche bars.

We had the traditional Handknit Sock Reunion:
It came complete with our very own party crasher.Doggie saw the crowd - and the camera - and wanted in on all the fun.

While we were out of town, I finished the yellow socks:
And started some new ones, this time in Kroy.
The main color is a sort of grayish brown called "flax" and the contrast is the coal black leftover from the socks from the last post. Thrifty thrifty...

Pre-Turkey Day Tidings

Since the many days since my last post, I've finished things:
And started things:
This is Cascade Heritage, in a pale yellow.

I've also decided that there will be no appearance by the Crazy Baker Lady this year. We'll be in Jersey, so I won't have my own kitchen to be my crazy baking self in. Only moderate amounts of baking allowed. Sigh.

Invention

After Rhinebeck, there was some family time, including a field trip to Mr. Edison's old thinktank in West Orange, NJ. This happy fellow was in the factory library, looking extremely pleased with life. After all, he did have wings, a bit of clothing, and a working lightbulb. Who wouldn't be happy?

This is Room12, where Edison did his own puttering about with dangerous chemicals and whatnot.
This is the second of the dreaded irregularly patterned pink socks, so dreaded and irregular that I have yet to finish them.

Jersey Baby wants red gloves, which led to some tinkering of my own:

This is the left glove in red and white Wool-Ease. The colorwork is based on this free firetruck pattern. I sort of made up the rest as sort of generic gloves. Now I just have to make the right hand glove.