Pictures A Plenty

Yesterday I teased you with all sorts of coming attractions.  I'm delivering the goods today!

First I went on and on about some yarn I purchased yesterday.  Let's see if you don't twitch when you see these saturated colors:

Today I hung out with my Chicken friends at Kathy's house.  We had wonderful food and while they worked on their Kaffe Fassett quilt projects, I made three more wool pillows to go with the one I had finished months ago:

Once I finished sewing I packed up my Bernina and turned to knitting.  I finished the Man Hat so I could move on to the Malabrigo Rios golden beret.  Here's the top of the Man Hat:

Fooled you -- not the usual Double D decrease!  It's a bit big for Hedy too:

I cast on for the golden beret and hope to have it just about finished tomorrow so stay tuned for that picture.

I also told you yesterday about my new shoes.  My old Merrill's are wearing on the soles and the leather is cracking where it meets the soles.  I picked out a new pair of Keen's:

I love everything about them except that they're made in Ch~na.  Ugh.  I've been wearing Keen shoes for the last 5 years and this is my fourth pair.  They're so ugly they're cute, at least to me.

I also picked up another pair of Smart Wool socks:

These socks are so squishy and they will keep my feet toasty warm -- love them!

I'm in good shape for the Charlevoix show that begins on Friday.  I just need to make up a few hang tags and knit whatever I can finish before I head up there, either Wednesday straight from work, or very early Thursday morning.  Kevin will hold down the fort.  Today I had to get on him to get his laundry done that was strewn all over the laundry room.  I could hardly walk through there before I headed off to Kathy's house.  I'm happy to say it's new and improved in there now -- thank goodness!