Winter 2013 Trends in Knitting

Hello friends!

Countdown to Christmas: 21 days!

I have been shopping a lot lately to buy Christmas gifts and also knitting a lot.  I have been noticing the recent trends in knitted merchandise in the stores that I did not notice as much last year.  Below are a few that stand out for me.  I really like them and I would love to try to knit them soon once all my Christmas gifts are knitted up!





1. Cable knit Headbands.  
I have seen this one at Chapters and the image below is from the Chapters website.  Many people have been sporting these cute cable knit headbands.  I think they look amazing and I would love to try my hand at knitting one!

Photo source: Photo source 

2. Faux fur and knitted popover from LOFT.

I was at the mall the other day and stepped into LOFT.  They had these “Faux fur cable stripe popover’s”.  I thought it was a cool original idea to include faux fur into the popover.  I was thinking “maybe I’ll give that a try!” so many fun ideas this holiday season. The photo below is from the LOFT website you can find the link below.

Faux fur striped popover from LOFT

 3.  Knitted Pom-Pom hat

Another great find at Chapters.  I saw these at Chapters and the photo below is courtesy of the Chapter's website.  I have seen these around and many people wearing them.  I love the look and think it dresses up the classic knitted hat very nicely.  

I have seen furry pom-poms at Michael's that you can buy to attach to the top of your handmade knitted hats.  I would love to try this out because I think it looks great.

Photo source: Chapters

4. Knitted snood

I have been noticing the lighter infinity scarves in stores have become quite popular.  They also have a lot of shorter infinity scarves and I did not know the term snood until I began researching today.  I like the idea of the shorter and lighter infinity scarf/ snood because it is not so heavy around your neck.  It would also be a very quick knit!   The photo below is a snood from Chapters and I love the color.  I might knit a snood with the wool I just bought in this color.

Photo source:  Chapters

I love the new trends out there and I am excited to start knitting some of them.  I hope that you found some ideas you like as well.  Happy Knitting!

New Wool and loving Michael's Holiday Sales!

Hello friends!

I am going off to work in a bit but I just wanted to tell you about the great deals on wool that I got last night.  I went to Michael's last night and found wool on sale for amazing prices.  I found the Lion Brand Holiday Homespun on sale for 2.99! and the Lion Brand Wool - Ease thick and Quick wool (my favorite) on sale for 2 for $12 :)  So of course I had to buy them.

The two balls of wool in the back are "Gemstone" and the one in front is called "Berry".

The wool up close, aren't the silver and gold strands a lovely touch?  

Thank you for visiting!
Hope you are all having a good day!

Lisa

Tree Trimming and first day of Advent!

Hello Friends,

Happy December!

Countdown to Christmas: 24 days!

Last night my mom, sister and I decorated our Christmas tree! We pulled out our old artificial tree from the basement and we hung decorations from years past.   We drank eggnog with rum and we ate shortbread cookies.  We listened to Christmas music while we hung the decorations and we laughed and joked about special memories of the ornaments and memories.  Before we decorated the tree we stuck to our tradition of indulging in a KFC dinner together.  I love this tradition and we waited for my sister to be with us back from school to all participate in the tradition.  It was good to have her back for a visit!

A festive drink I adore! Eggnog and Rum, delicious!

Festive cookies bought by my dad for our night of Christmas tree decorating

The tree view from below

The Christmas tree!

Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a good end to your weekend!

I will be posting some updates, our tree isn't fully decorated yet! we still need to add the garland and some more ornaments :)