Pinterest Love

//Knitting: 1. Some beautiful Italian wool and alpaca cable knit throws. 2. Reversible cabled knit hat. 3. This is for you Jared Flood lovers.

//Food: 1. Isn't this neopolitan zebra cheesecake just almost too beautiful to eat?! 2. I know I'm jumping the gun here but couldn't resist showing you this Christmas red velvet snow cake. 3. Vanilla, White Chocolate Layer Cake - Perfection! 

//Style: 1. Icelandic sweater action. 2. How about this for your next holiday party! 2. Hooray for the Deer Snowflake Fluffy sweater.

xoxo Shannon

Pintastic Picks

Here are some of my faves today from Pinterest:

//Knitting: 1. Msmcporkchop, 2. Dripstones Cowl Pattern.

//Nature: 1. lovely from sannaochsania, 2. Pink mushrooms.

//Food: 1. Kentucky Bourbon Pecan Pie, yum! 2. Top It With Cinnamon

//Inspiration:1. Mosaic Dresses, 2. Yago hortal (acrylic on linen).

xoxo Shannon

Top Ten Tuesday (A Day Late)

1. Knitting Whimsy: Is this too funny or what? Check it out here.

2. Colorwork: This colorwork pattern, Catacomb from Vogue Knitting.

3. Embroidery: And from Hey Porkchop again, this adorable snow scene.

4. Knitting: Wonderful color combination and pattern with such great stitch definition and sheen to the yarn. The yarn is from Sweet Georgia Yarns, from their Cash Luxe Fine line in colors, charcoal and oxblood. This is a picture of their two-colour kitchener stitch tutorial included in the pattern, Bloodwood Cowl by Mitenae which can be found on Ravelry.

5. Yarn: Love this Himilayan recycled sari silk yarn from here. I am so intrigued by this type of yarn, the combination of textures, thick and thin and the riotous color!

6. Sweater Design: Check out this fun and beautiful design by Anna Wilkinson published in Pom Pom Quarterly, Issue 3

7. Embroidery: A collage of truly inspirational and unusual work from Gipsy Bazar.

8. Quilting: The ever wonderful Kaffe Fassett.

9. Felt Work: This pillow from Sweet C's Designs.

10. Food: Yum, (Idiot Proof) Peanut Butter Chocolate Chex Mix Bars from Half Baked Harvest.

Hope you have enjoyed!

xoxo Shannon

Top Ten Tuesday

1. Knitting Whimsy: this little guy is so cute found here.

2. Colorwork: Talk about color explosion, love this.

3. Embroidery: How about this for your next Christmas project?!

4. Knitting: Lovely. Rustic. Natural. French.

5. Yarn: Yarn pick for the day. This is so rustic looking and beautifully colorful at the same time. Rose    from Portugal dyed this yarn. Check her out at her blog.

6. Sweater Design: Here's an amazing sweater, Oshima by Jared Flood being modeled by Tanis Lavallee from Tanis Fiber Arts and done in her beautiful yarn TFA Blue Label in Atlantic and Red Label in Stained Glass.

7. Crochet:  Adorable doll by Lydia Tresselt.

8. Quilting: Bloom quilt by Amy Butler.

9. Felt work:  Weekend Getaway Satchel by Marta McCall.

10. Food: How about some apple cinnamon baked doughnuts with brown butter glaze! I know, this is not something I usually indulge in either, but it's that time of year, right? And how can you go wrong with anything from Joy the Baker?

Okay, those are my top ten for the day. Hope you all had a great weekend and you are enjoying the beautiful fall weather! 

Knitting updates: I am still working on my Oats cowl I showed you in the last post. I'm just finishing up the knit 1, purl 1 rib, will bind off and weave in my ends, and I'll be done!

The striped hat swatch I revealed a while back  is still waiting for me to figure out a pattern for it which I will do and will show you the results. I don't know about you, but I do struggle with finding enough hours in the day to get everything done. I guess it's called prioritizing, and it's something I need to get a handle one. Any pointers? This blog has been great for keeping me accountable though and that has been a very good thing!

The garter stitch coat is still a WIP. I have come to a stopping point (in other words, I'm stumped and don't know what to do). I'm at the point where I need to start the collar and can't quite figure out the directions. I. must. finish. it. 

//I'm going to leave you with this quote for the day:  

“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”
― Elizabeth Zimmermann

xoxo - Shannon