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The White Squirrel Told Me it is TIME

Things have been changing for me in the last several months.  It has all been for the better, but choices had to be made about what should stay and what had to go.   The blog was one thing that could wait for a while before it would return.  Yesterday, though, on my walk in the park I saw the albino squirrel again and it told me the time had come to start blogging.  Seeing it means, at least to me, good things are about to come to me.

Just because the writing here on the blog went away doesn't mean the same happened to knitting.  It did slow down some for part of the year, but it never completely stopped.  Nor did any of the wooly things I usually do, so there will be some catching up to do as we move forward.

Let's start with Miss M and Miss A shall we.  They have been busy growing up so quickly while I've been away.  On a recent morning together we found a (dead) butterfly and they both wanted to take a close look at it.  Here they are posing for a picture after that inspecting.


I know look how they've grown.  Miss M looks like a girl, no longer any toddler characteristics, and Miss A is already TWO years old.  Time does fly by.

Speaking of time and the girls, I am working on a project for them.  The hope is it will become an advent calendar similar to this one created by the Yarn Harlot's Stephanie Pearl-McPhee in 2016.

Photo credit to the Yarn Harlot

Each of the 24 pouches is filled with a small knitted ornament that can be removed from its pocket and attached to the buttons on the tree.  By Christmas the tree is fully decorated.

So far there are two of the 24 ornaments knit, a snowman and decorated tree.

A decorated tree

Snowman with scarf with holly on his hat that you cannot see

Note they both are approximately 3.5 inches, that will be my target size.
Both patterns are from Bobath Children's Therapy Centre, a pattern for a Santa, Angel, Snowman and Tree found together on Ravelry.  I intend to make the Santa, but the Angel appears to be a bit too fragile for the girls  Other items will include a decorated ginger cookie, sugar cane, Xmas mouse and star.  Perhaps a knitted mitten, sock and sweater will join the group, but that only brings the total to ten so more ideas have to be forthcoming.  Oh, too bad I'll have to spend more time searching on Ravelry which is great while watching the latest Netflix movie.

Oh, by the way, let's keep all this a secret, shall we?  This project is to be a surprise and I know the two recipients can't read yet so they won't accidentally be finding out about it on their own.  

There is so much to share.  I will be back with another knitting adventure soon, I promise.








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