~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~
Most of my knitting time over the past week was spent finishing Gabriel’s sweater. (And thank you all so much for your kind comments on it!) As much as I do love that sweater now that it’s finished, I am happy to be working on this ruffled scarf. I plan to stay focused on it until it’s finished. No casting on!
I am still reading Organized Simplicity, and despite the fact that we already maintain a relatively clutter free home (the best I can do in a small house with lots of kids) I am finding lots of good advice and wisdom here! A friend alerted me earlier this week that it is available as a free Kindle download right now, so if you have a Kindle, go get it! Of course reading a book that motivates me to clean and organize isn’t good for bedtime, so I am also reading A Secret Gift. A friend passed this book to me recently, and it is a very nice, thoughtful, quiet read. I read one chapter each night at bedtime.
I also want to share a couple of funny knitting comments from my past couple of weeks. I teach knitting to a friend’s daughters every week and recently her six year old told me, “Miss Ginny, I just love your bind off.” That one made me laugh. Monday night I helped teach at the local women’s shelter knitting class that I volunteer for. One of the women pulled me aside saying, “Can you please help me figure out where my knitting got all jacked up?” I smiled, fixed her “jacked up” stitch and moved on to the next person who needed help.
p.s. With the help of a friend, I’ve got a Yarn Along button now! (I know, I should have done this over a year ago!) Now, all you have to do is grab the code from below the button and add it to your post to link back to the Yarn Along. And, because I had too much fun playing with these, there are eight different color choices. Visit the Yarn Along page (tab is above the header) to see all the color choices. This button can be inserted into your Yarn Along post each week, and I would love it if you added it to your sidebar!
I too love Gabe’s sweater! I have been inspired here to learn to knit in the last month or so and have been linking to your party. I have been so encouraged by the lovely people in your Yarn Along. Oh, Organized Simplicity is also available for free on the Nook. I just downloaded it.
Lovely color! I’m sure it will turn out wonderful!
Really pretty yarn, love purple, my next project, is going to be purple.
At the moment I am not reading anything, need a trip to the charity shop,
to get some books, love thrillers, if they have knitting/crochet books thats a
bonus! Hoping for my amazon wish list one day soon!
Ginny, how do you have the time to do as much knitting as you do!? I have 3 kids, and can barely get my knitting accomplished!!! Posting to your yarn along motivated me this week so much! Thank you for keeping me driven!
Thanks for sharing again Ginny. We also live in a small home for nine people and I am constantly working to keep things simple.
I love that yarn! It looks similar to the yarn I dyed for my daughter’s slippers, but deeper & richer. (My excuse is that it was my first time using that particular dyeing technique!)
I also love your button! I will be grabbing it later on to put on my blog. 🙂 xo
The scarf is beautiful- what a lovely shade!
Your yarn looks like it would be a yummy sherbet. I think I will look for that organization book, thanks for the recommendation!
Lovely colour yarn! Can’t wait to see the finished scarf 🙂
Gorgeous yarn! I too am trying to read less stimulating books at bedtime; no more parenting/organizing/business-related books!
I love the yarn for your scarf so much, it is so splendidly rich and just beautiful! I like your funny knitting story! That is so cute.
My very first yarn-along! I’ve been wanting to learn to knit for so long! Now I’m learning! I love a practical craft that helps me provide a needed item for my family. Or in the case of my first knitting project, an unneeded doll scarf. Whatever. I’m just glad to have begun! Thanks for the inspiration, Ginny!
Dear Ginny,
Oh I love that colour too.
Gabe’s sweater is just perfect and he looks so happy too.
Glad to be contributing here again, so hard to get my reading done (not) but my Yarn work has suffered because of my excessive reading. Just can’t seem to balance the two.
I too am reading Organised Simplicity along with other ‘mother’ books and my pleasure reading.
Have a great week
God Bless
Gae
Thanks for the tip on the book! Great color on that scarf. And I had to show two of my boys the photos of that great sweater. I love it. Love those colors, too!
Thank you for the heads-up about ‘Organized Simplicity’. This sounds like just the organizational book I need to read.
That scarf is beautiful, Ginny!
Love that color! You are such a lovely knitter.
What a deep and dark magenta hue. Thanks for the download link. I don’t have a kindle, but my mom does! (I asked her to download it for me! 🙂
Yep, it’s morning and I must have gnomes on my brain for my Etsy site, because I got my blog name wrong this morning. For heaven’s sake – at least the link will work.
Have a great day!
Love the purple yarn you’ve chosen for your scarf. This is my first yarn alongs to join in on and I’m looking forward to visiting everyone and seeing lots more.
I love the color of the scarf. So bright and cheery! I also don’t think I commented on Gabe’s sweater but I LOVE it. And he looks so handsome in it. You can tell he’s happy!
I know allllll about jacked-up knitting. Sigh. You have no idea what a blessing it is to have someone available to sort it out! My friend Julie comes on Tuesdays. I try to not screw up too badly til at least the weekend lol.
Gabriel’s sweater is amazing, and I’ve seen some jacked up knitting myself 🙂 so I understand the question!
That yarn is simply beautiful!
I can’t wait to see the finished scarf.
Joining in with the Yarn Along this week for the first time, I have been so inspired by all the wonderful projects. I can’t wait to see what everyone has been up to this week!
Love the fuchsia!
I love the color you chose for your scarf! Lovely!
Really like the pink in the scarf. “Jack” sounds like a great verb.
That yarn is so pretty, can’t wait to see the finished project.
Have a nice day!
Yum! Raspberry yarn! It’s so rivh looking. I, too, have to stick to my guns and not cast on anything until I finish Adrian’s birthday sweater…but it is so hard!
I have Organized Simplicity on my nightstand…under a pile of other books and notebooks (an indication in itself that I need to read it). The area of my life I find most difficult to un-clutter is in my work/craft room. You know…there’s that great craft you see turning toilet paper rolls into art, so you have a bag of cardboard toilet paper rolls, and that bucket of really nice pine cones, and the dried corn husks because you will have to do a corn husk doll with the kids when you do that pioneer unit study…and so on and so forth…
…I may be beyond hope…
Funny Nadja, I too am reading that book and it is under a heap of other books too
I tried to leave a comment last night, it wouldn’t let me 🙁 or else I left 3…
Gabe’s sweater is so wonderful and he is so handsome in it. This ruffle scarf is going to be so cute.
Can’t wait to see it. Your knitting comments made me laugh. Thank you for the tip on the book, my daughter has a kindle maybe she would let me borrow it to read it. I am always looking for more ways to organize in our small (no closets) bungalow!
It IS always nice to start a smaller project after finishing such a big one, isn’t it?
Thank you for hosting.
I am so enchanted by that yarn in your project. And the knitting comments are a delight. My youngest son refers to knitting as “needling”, which pleases me so.
Many thanks for the free Kindle title tip; I’ve already gone and acquired it.
Blessings…
I loved your story yesterday, but forgot to comment. I think Gabe looks really awesome in his new sweater and it’s great you made the effort to finihs it for this special date. I admire all you’re doing with and for your kids.
I’ve been trying to teach my 6 year old niece how to crochet, so I enjoy hearing the comments from the 6 year old you’re teaching to knit! I hope to get “A Secret Gift” from our library, sounds like a wonderful book!!! And yes, Gabe’s sweater is beautiful…he looks handsome in it, congratulations on your 3 years of having him as part of your family.
Gabe’s sweater turned out absolutely fantastic. Great job on matching u those arm stripes!
What a beautiful yarn for your ruffled scarf, the colour is so rich. You must be such a busy bee with your children to look after and all the volunteer teaching you do……brilliant.
Thanks for the tip about the free kindle book!
Love the red…it will be a beautiful scarf. (I still can’t get over the awesomeness of that sweater!)
Thanks for the book link. I just read a magazine article about the “gift”.
Thanks so much for linking to the free book. Just ordered it for the new Kindle my mother-in-law gave me. I know it’s January, but the warm weather here in the south has me in the mood for spring cleaning and organizing. Beautiful scarf color, too!
that’s what I am trying to do: staying focused on the current project 🙂 t-r-y-i-n-g! you are tempting me with that book, I’ve seen it many times and if I see it only once more, I’ll have to get it 🙂 thank you ginny, for providing this source of inspiration!
Love that color for your scarf!
Thanks for the heads up on the free book. I just got it!
I still don’t know how to knit 🙂 I don’t know where you find the time…
I need to start a scarf for myself, I’ve been borrowing my oldest’s green and yellow John Deere scarf! Found your blog through Thimblenest and decided to join the yarn along.
Beautiful yarn! And I love the knitting comments 🙂 I’ll be smiled about jacked up knitting all day, sounds just like something my college roommate would say.
Sounds like a delightful six-year-old. May I say, a bit late, how much I love Gabe’s sweater. The colours are so beautiful. x
The yarn looks delicous!
And how wonderful to be engaged in knitting sessions; I need to look for something similar around here.
Ooooh, beautiful yarn, what a fabulous colour!
that purple yarn looks delicious! I look forward to seeing more of it in following weeks!
The yarn you use for your projects is always so lovely and the color of this yarn is no exception! I think it’s wonderful that you teach knitting at a women’s shelter and I am going to see about doing the same thing here, thanks for inspiring me!
That purple yarn is so pretty! I am a sucker for all the different purple yarns available 🙂 I am reading organized simplicity as well. It is free on the nook also 🙂 I wish I had the 10 days to go through the whole declutter process. Instead I am taking it a bit at a time.