A special #ShowMeYourKnits for Christmas Eve/Day cast-ons. I cast on a Ziggy Shawl, designed by Joji. Yarn is silk/mohair by DyeForYarn. Glad I bought this yarn before the tariff nonsense.

Merry Christmas and wishes for happy holidays. 🎄 Sharing some coffee and some of the fruitcake I made with you -

#ShowMeYourKnits is Whites & Brights this week. This is the Hudson Ripple Scarf. 🧶is my mom’s handspun Romney. I’m a little farther along - had to stop working on it for a few days. Cold weather and heat running so my hands had little splits - not conducive to working with white yarn.

Flight path art took on the Christmas spirit across Ohio! The pilot created this scene over five hours covering more than 500 miles. ✈️ https://www.cleveland19.com/2025/12/17/pilot-flying-out-bowling-green-creates-nativity-scene-across-ohio/ 

Woke to a lot of snow. Bands of lake-effect snow all day in the secondary snow belt. Never got to my mom’s to take in her paper. Her drive was just plowed so at least I won’t get stuck tomorrow when I go to take in her mail. Cookie baking and my first 12 Dogs of Christmas Ale of the season.

Finished my Beeswax Hat (designer is @baroquepurls.bsky.social). 🧶 is Mal Rios in Frank Ochre colorway. Not a fan of yellows and oranges but this muted yellow/gold is perfect for the pattern. Well-written pattern. Fun to knit!

Bought wreaths to take to the national cemetery today. Started my car and every system-failure warning flashed on the instrument panel. 34°F/1°C - perfect weather to wait for a tow truck. Aren’t holidays hard enough? I’ll wait to hear what electrical system component decided to give up.

#ShowMeYourKnits is holiday colored or themed knits. I knit Joji’s One Love Shawl with West Yorkshire Spinners ’Mulled Wine’ 🧶 - appropriate colors and also a little sparkle!

Couldn’t resist this 🧶 set from @makerwool.bsky.social Unsure what I’ll knit with it but love the colors.

Predicted and started as I drove my mom home from delayed Thanksgiving. A little heavier as I drove home. When we arrived - great niece (9yo), playing with her brothers in the driveway. First question - did I bring Caesar salad? Her favorite thing - for 5-6 years. It’s all she ate. Warms my ♥️.

Thanksgiving is Saturday because my niece is on call. ✔️Pecan pie. Two pumpkin pies next.

Sadly, a lot of experience in caregiving. Gift link to the article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Just another dreary day in NEO - and there goes the blimp.

The Cavaliers players are dressed up like Georgia peaches. I didn’t like the deep red floor treatment and this City Edition floor makes it easier to watch the game. I’ve heard the Metropark-Cavaliers collaboration as the basis for the color. But it’s a miss for me and I’m a ‘nope’ all the way.

This is a Ziggy Shawl (designed by Joji / Jojilocat) I made a few years ago. 🧶 is DyeForYarn tussah fingering. Thinking about using the silk mohair yarn I posted earlier to make another one.

So it’s actually #ShowMeYourKnits - 🙃 - apologies to followers for the repost

The theme is FLOOF for #ShowMeYouKnits this week. I used DyeForYarn MoFluff Silk Mohair in Last Dance colorway to make Nevasca Shawl last year. I gave it to my niece - she needed a shawl for my sister’s/her mom’s funeral a year ago. Ordered more yarn and thinking I might make a Ziggy Shawl.

@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social Please post your video of baby otters playing in the snow here! So cute - and I can share a link from here.

Snow on the Mandevilla

Took flowers to the National Cemetery today for Veterans Day. Sadly there will probably be a bit of snow on them by Tuesday. #owrnc

I haven’t been in Target in some time but credit where due - there was an area-wide power outage in Wadsworth, OH. The Target store contacted Feeding Medina County and they were able to save a lot of frozen food before it thawed and would have been thrown out. medina-gazette.com/news/447900/...

Failed #socktober but did finally finish the gusset on my Cosine Wave Socks (designer @verybusymonkey.bsky.social). Good to have work projects but it sure takes up knitting time. Love the socks - love her patterns.

Last week, a guy in front of me at Walmart didn’t have enough money to pay for what he was buying. I offered to pay the difference - it was less than $5. I was buying bias binding for my mom - unusual for me to shop there.

Down to the last few rows of this Musselburgh hat (by @ysoldaknits.bsky.social) in The Life of a Showgirl colorway. First one I made was for my niece (trauma surgeon) and this one is for my niece, her sister (architect). They continue a family tradition of strong, smart, and capable women.

What a lot of work. And a lot of 🧶 Gift link share.inquirer.com/tK5YNI

What an opening to the World Series In Toronto. 😢 Those national anthems.

Beautiful fall colors driving to my mom’s this morning to pick up her laundry! (Fun fact for sports fans - this is where Myles crashed his car a few years ago.)

Happy for the former Guardians, now playing for Toronto and going to the World Series. ⚾️

Chilly night - knitting another Musselburgh hat (@ysoldaknits.bsky.social) in The Life of a Showgirl colorway. The yarn coordinates with the hedgehog blanket my mom made. Made the first hat hoping my niece would like it - and another niece (her sister) wants one. #ShowMeYourKnits

Saw my niece I hoped would want the Life of a Showgirl–colorway hat. She did. I asked my niece/her sister if she wanted one like it - and she said she would. Not much knitting time this week - but happy to have this easy project on my needles. @ysoldaknits.bsky.social Musselburgh hat.

Work projects and a birthday celebration for my mom and grandniece over the weekend have taken my knitting time. But turned the heel on my Cosine Wave Socks (designer is @verybusymonkey.bsky.social). Bonus chocolate pie photo. Sorry I didn’t take a photo of the garlic-Parm focaccia - was delicious!

Ordered some WYS sock yarn from Simply Sock Yarn - Mulled Wine sparkle and Mulberry solid (matches the dark tone in Mulled Wine). Also got some “I’m only a witch without my yarn“ stickers! Think she has free project bags with that saying this week.

Happy #Socktober - and #ShowMeYourKnits is socks this week! I cast on Cosine Wave Socks by Verybusymonkey last night. I have several patterns by this designer and about time I knitted some of them. 🧶 is Mondim, 100% Portuguese wool.

Everything is so grim. Cast on a new BAO BAO shawl. Multicolor yarn is a special Miss Babs colorway to support WNC after hurricane Helene last year.

Finally stopped at the flower stand at Blooming Roots Farm outside Wadsworth. Stunning bouquets for $20. Hard to capture in photos.

I sure prefer our CLEG announcers. Why diminish the recognition of José today by saying Bernie hasn’t been recognized in the same way?

I saw these postcards on here last year - ordered some from the artist’s etsy shop. High quality and just such fun images That make me smile. Perfect, great fall! www.etsy.com/listing/7404...

BAO BAO shawl progress as a diversion. Inadvertent Scarlet and Gray but my husband got his PhD there and I know he would have liked this. Work project is taking priority over knitting but I can’t wait to finish. 🧶 Malabrigo Rios and a natural merino/silk/yak.

Swallowtail caterpillars munching on the flat leaf parsley - happy the bunnies left some for them! And happy to share.

Finished the Musselburgh hat I was knitting earlier. Need to block it but happy how it turned out! Design by @ysoldaknits.bsky.social and 🧶 is The Life of a Showgirl on Bugga Fingering (Canon Hand Dyes).

‘What’s on your needles’ is the theme for #ShowMeYourKnits this week. Working the decreases on the Musselburgh hat, design by @ysoldaknits.bsky.social Two @isabellkraemer.bsky.social designs - BAO BAO shawl in red and gray and Kyler in some of my mom’s handspun wool.

Cast on BAO BAO, a new shawl pattern from Isabell Kraemer. I'm carrying the resting yarn along the edge, catching/twisting the resting color after knitting the first 2 stitches. Keeps the floats a little in from the edge. 🧶 is undyed merino, silk, and yak and Rios in Libra and Scorpio.

Happy Labor Day! Baseball, knitting, and a Bloodhound Orange IPA. Progress on my Musselburgh hat - using the orange yarn from yarn set as one of the brim turns. Just a little over halfway and the rest of the hat will be knitted with the blue/blueish-green yarn.

Progress photo of the Musselburgh hat I’m knitting with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ colorway from Canon Hand Dyes. Yarn is Bugga Fingering.

Tiny start - Musselburgh hat, designed by @ysoldaknits.bsky.social. Yarn is Bugga Fingering from Canon Hand Dyes in ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ colorway.

Congratulations, @thestephaniehaney.bsky.social - wishing you all the best at Ideastream!

A little bright knitting to break through the gloom. 🧶 colorway is No Rainbows Without Rain. Knitting from both ends for this hat.

Paging @neorsd.org

A lifetime ago, I would weave cotton towels to give as Christmas gifts for friends. A different design each year. I miss having the space and time to weave.

Stripes theme for #ShowMeYourKnits this week. This is a Habitation Throw baby blanket I made a few years ago. Pattern by Curious Handmade.