To-Do List: 2012

Greetings, All! Let's start the New Year off with a bang, shall we? Have you ever seen anything as amazing as this? Ellen first showed us this picture on her i-phone and asked if anyone would be interested in stitching it. We all got really excited about it, agreeing it's the kind of thing to have in your stash even if you never stitch it. It uses 87 colors of DMC.


If you feel that's a bit more time-consuming than you'd like, there's this cutie. If you listen to XM radio, one of the stations played all the old versions of Christmas music through the years, including approximately 20 different versions of this song, sung by anyone you can think of. I think it's not so much Christmasy in this format as wintery.


These guys by Lizzie Kate are decidedly Christmasy, but quick little stitches. Hey, I hear you out there saying you want to stitch an ornament a month. You can start with these!


Speaking of Christmas music, what a hoot. In response to "soon it will be Christmas day," well, let's hope not!


Here's a beautiful new reproduction sampler from LHN. The recommended flosses are Belle Soie, but it's charted for DMC as well.


We have this Reflets de Soie chart as well, with its beautiful blues. Hurry up before Glenna grabs it! Darned if I can remember the name on it: perhaps Hannah Jackson?


OK, it's finally cold here, and I've pulled out the unattractive but warm puffer jacket. Time to get busy with the knitting needles and knit something nice for yourself or for someone else. "Cozy Little Crofters" by Sirdar. Goofy little hat and matching sweater--too cute.


You know how sometimes an issue of Vogue Knitting is just a little too weird for itself? Not this month. There are lots and lots of do-able, wearable patterns in the latest issue. This is one: a soft, cozy blanket, knitted on #15 needles, then edged with this very appealing ruffle. There is a beautiful cable sweater (no stinking button holes, pockets, gussets, steeks, steaks, streaks, sneaks or squeeks) to knit in lots of sizes, and there are fun hats to knit in luxury yarns--you don't go broke knitting a hat in even the very finest yarn. We have beautiful, lofty, squishy, soft yarns made of hair and fur and wool and milk protein (seriously!) and bamboo and everything including the hand-combed armpit hair of the Peruvian termite (not really--they don't export that stuff).


Speaking of luxury, this is such a deliciously soft scarf kit. Even if you're not a very advanced knitter, you can't go wrong here.


And look! Fourth of July is just around the corner!


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Happy stitching!