All The Hats!

Great news!  I put the hat on Javi's head while he and Sarah were here and it fits nicely.  I might undo the decreases and make it just an inch bigger?  There wasn't quite enough brim for my liking.  Similarly, I'm about to the point of decreasing on Sarah's hat, so I will make hers a little longer as well.  Here's where her hat is:

I am also making hats for Middle and their person, so yarn and patterns were finally selected and I'm swatching.  Middle chose this cool hat - Divide Hat - and their person would like this very functional one - Ribbed Beanie - which I think will be nice to make as well.  Middle wants green for the brim of their hat, and then since there was no black yarn in the same brand/weight, we selected this nice brownish color to go with.  Person would like a black hat. (yarns below)

I'm a little worried about the black yarn, it's not as squishy/stretchy as I'm used to.  It has some alpaca or silk in it?  I think alpaca?  Perhaps that's why it's less stretchy?  I'll swatch it and see what I think.  There is time for more yarn.

While Sarah and Javi were with us, I needed something to work on other than their hats, and since the yarn for the other hats hadn't arrived, I pulled out some yarn I got a year or two (or three?) ago to make matching socks for Middle and Smallest.  That has progressed nicely, I'm about to turn the heel on the first sock.  Hopefully I can finish up the hats quickly and get to work on finishing the socks!  It would be nice to get more of the yarn sitting around worked up and shared!

Next week we're going to see Smallest perform in the Nutcracker - her first time to be in one!  We'll also see Jeff's other daughter, Lauren.  They're about three hours apart, so it's a little tricky, but I think we can make it work.  Catherine is coming too!

Catherine and I have started exercising together over the computer as a way to make me exercise between trainer sessions.  Plus, my trainer is taking the month of December off, so I _really_ need someone to keep me on track.   Catherine also reminded me that I need to finish the bug for our brother.  It's just the border now, so I need to get that done.  I think I ran out of the gold floss?

That's about it, I think.  I'm looking forward to post-Xmas knitting!  I have at least two cowls to make, one with the yarn I got in Florida recently, and one that Jeff bought the yarn for in New Orleans.  I don't know what he picked, so that will be very fun!  I'm having some surgery in January which will leave me convalescing at home for 3-6 weeks, so I'm thinking that's some prime knit and watch bad movies time.  Should be good!  And reading too!  So many choices...

Margie