Holiday Break

Christmas is wrapped up and we're enjoying the slower pace of the holiday break. 

If you also celebrate Christmas I hope you had a great one! We sure did.

It was one of the best ones I can remember. Our older boys were a lot of fun helping continue the Santa magic with our youngest son. Santa fit that blue tractor like Grandpop's in his sleigh. It was the hit of the day. We also had a few very mild temperature days that made being outside enjoyable. 

We went for a nice hike, opened the farm on Saturday and I've been knitting like crazy.

Thought I would share some photos from the past few days. They're all off my phone.

I've been bad about carrying my real camera around. The iPhones make it too easy to take lots of pictures. 

Ok...so here are some pics.

My friend moved to Germany for work this year and she sent us some goodies for Christmas.

In the package, two little tin houses (incense burners) were the hit. Smoke comes out the chimney.

Chase and Jeter waiting patiently for Christmas Eve.

A block print by my son, Garrett.

Ahhh....selfish knitting. The Bray Cap by Brooklyn Tweed. Knitted in Elsawool Cormo yarn.

 

Merry Christmas to me. A basket full of Shelter. Knitting it up into the Barn Sweater. 

I made my grandmother's apple pie for Christmas Eve. It's a tried and true recipe that dates back to World War II. My grandfather was stationed on the Arizona and it was the recipe of the chef on board. Thankfully my grandfather was in California the day of Pearl Harbor and survived. I don't know about the chef, but his recipe lives on.

Christmas Eve church.

Dinner at Mom and Dad's

My family :) Wouldn't want it any other way.

 Waiting for Santa....

Finished hat preblocking.

 

Winding yarn, drinking beer. Happy Xmas Day!

 Tuckered out from Christmas. Wrapped up in my Leaves of Grass alpaca blanket.

New farm hours...

Weekend knitting.

Soaking, blocking my Bray Cap

The perfect Jersey breakfast. Pork roll and cheese on a hard roll.

More progress on my barn sweater.

9 hours of Sunday knitting is all my hands could handle.

And my blocked hat.

That's it for today...

Hope you are enjoying your break! I'll be back later today or tomorrow with the new Winter Knitting lesson schedule. Stay tuned.

Yarn Along...After the Lightning

Hello!

Well, it has been quite a week around here. The Jersey Shore has been slammed with thunderstorms and extreme rain the past few days. We have had more rain in a short amount of time than I can remember! And the lightning and thunder! We were the unfortunate people that were hit by lightning.

Yes. I said it. HIT BY LIGHTNING! Ok...maybe not direct hit, but VERY CLOSE!

It hit my parent's sprinkler system (it's attached to their house) and blew it up across the yard and in the same strike we lost all power, a blown up lightbulb, killed tvs, satellite, internet. My parents lost a tv in the process too. SCARY! But thankfully we are all ok and the houses are ok.

The computers were all safe. THANK GOODNESS!!!! I need my computer for work and I have so much info an photos on here. Makes me realize that I REALLY need to back this thing up!

Wow...I'm using a lot of all caps. Sorry. 

Ok....so anyway....it's yarn along day.

And thanks to the nice Verizon repair man that visited this morning, I now have a new functioning modem and back with the online world. So I can share in the yarn along fun with everyone else.

Here goes....

I finished another Outlander Cowl. I used gray alpaca yarn from the Coop.

And new knitting. Using the remainder of the gray skein, I casted on the Standing Stones Cowl.

My dear friend and her son will be moving to Germany in a few weeks for work and she'll live there for 3 years. So, of course I needed to make them some knitted gear to remind them of home and keep them nice and toasty.

 

I also enjoyed listening to the podcast of an interview with Jared Flood. I really enjoyed hearing the process of dyeing the fiber and his painting major background. Gotta love other art school peeps.

 

Fresh flowers that Chase and I collected from the farm this week. In a small pottery vase that I think Lizzie made in college.

Still working on this book...........just not loving it. But many of you have said to keep going. So I am :) I am not giving up....yet.

 

Wishing everyone a good week. Join in the fun over at Ginny's Blog for more yarn alongers.

New Yarn...New Roof...Back in Business!!!

Exciting news!!!!!!! 

We are now carrying a huge line of Cascade Alpaca Yarn!

It's is gorgeous, soft and affordable. 

A big shipment just arrived and we're busy getting everything

in the store all set up! 

And we have a new roof...so we'll be Open for business this week regular hours!

OPEN WEDNESDAY 11-4

FRIDAY 10-4

Come on in and squish some alpaca yarn :)