Knitted Christmas Tree Ornament -Blogmas Day 21

 Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. Today I am sharing a knitted Christmas tree ornament from All Free Knitting. It was a fun pattern to knit up today. I knitted two trees then sewed up along the edges to sew them together. I knitted the tree trunk and sewed to the bottom.

Millie had to check out what I was doing when I was putting the ornament up and she climbed right up the tree!

Thank you for visiting today for blogmas Day 21! Hope you give this ornament a try! The top doesn't look perfect, but I am planning on getting a little star to place on it. Please join me tomorrow for blogmas day 22.

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Knitted Woven Star Ornament - Blogmas Day 14

 Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. Today I am sharing another knitted ornament for blogmas. I found this woven stars ornament pattern on Ravelry by Frankie Brown. It was quick and easy to knit up last night. Mine turned out looking a bit more like a flower and it looks nice with the yarn. I will work on making the ends more pointy, but I am happy with how it turned out. It makes a nice ornament on the tree. I think I will try out different color combinations and using Christmas colors these would be so pretty on the tree in a bunch of different color combinations like red and white, or green and red. It also looks nice on Ravelry pattern page with the two tones of the same color.

Thank you for visiting my blog today for blogmas day 14. I hope you liked this ornament and give it a try. See you again tomorrow for blogmas day 15! 

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Blogmas Day 12- Knitted Christmas Wreath Ornament

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. Today for Blogmas day 12, I am sharing a knitted Christmas wreath ornament that I tried out. It is knitted using i-cords that you knit up and braid together. I used green yarn I have previously purchased to use for the fair isle ornaments, it is Loops & Threads DK yarn and I used 3.25 mm US 3 double pointed needles.. The pattern is called Christmas Wreath Ornament and it is from Penny Carrington on Ravelry. It was a fun pattern and easy to knit up. I made this one below last night while catching up on Vlogmas videos on YouTube. I like the result of how i-cords look. They look amazing braided to make this wreath. 

With lights on the Christmas tree

Without lights 

Pattern notes:

Pattern:  Christmas Wreath Ornament by Penny Carrington. Pattern found on Ravelry.

Needles: 3.25 mm US 3 double pointed needles (you just need two)

Yarn: Loops & Threads Joy DK

Notes: The pattern is simply knitting three i-cords for the wreath and then one i-cord for the bow. I love this pattern because I can knit a bunch of these easily and quickly for Christmas gifts.

I hope that you liked today's Blogmas post! I loved knitting up this little wreath to hang on the tree. I will be knitting up a bunch more of these this season. What ornaments do you like to knit? See you tomorrow for another festive post!

Have a great day and stay safe!

Knitted Second Merry Fair Isle Ornament and Reading On

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I hope you are doing well. I finished knitting my second Merry Fair Isle ornament last night. They are really fun and quite quick to knit up. I have a lot of red and white yarn left and will be starting to knit a third ornament soon. The pattern I am using is from Patons on the Yarnspirations website. I orginally found these patterns on Ravelry. I love how there are 5 different charts of patterns for these ornaments, so you can knit up a collection of them for Christmas to hang up on your tree.

Notes about project:

Pattern: Patons Merry Fair Isle Knit Ornament
Yarn I used: Loops & Threads Joy DK

Needles I used: Takumi Double pointed needles size US 3, 3.25 mm.
Pattern notes: Ravelry

I finished reading Good Morning, Good Life by Amy Schmittauer Landino yesterday. I really enjoyed reading her book. I was gifted it from my sister for Christmas. My sister also has a morning routine and wakes up at 5 am to get things done. I learned a lot from the book and want to watch some of her YouTube videos to learn more about how she does calendar blocking. Now I will pick up Big Magic again by Elizabeth Gilbert. I started reading it last month and then decided to focus on the two I was already reading. My friend has said it is a good book so I am looking forward to reading it. I am still reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. I am still really enjoying this book and find it so interesting and want to keep reading on to see what happens next.


Joining along with Nicole for Crafting On, Kat for Unraveled Wednesday, and with Ginny for Yarn Along.

Thank you for visiting my blog. It has been a challenging time for all of us and I am hoping that soon we have more positive news. I feel like we are heading towards flattening the curve and hoping to kick this virus to the curb soon so we can continue on with our normal lives. With the weather getting nice and warm outside it is making me want to get back to normal life and enjoy the Summer like we always do. We can only hope at this point.

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Blogmas: Finished Knitting Mitten Ornament, Knitting Updates, & Reading On

Hello Friends,

I hope that you are doing well. I have been working on finishing up with my Office Administration courses. They are all done next week which is hard to believe and I have started the job search process and will be looking for a new job in the new year. I have also been busy finishing up knitting my mitten ornament to decorate the Christmas tree. I used the pattern called Mitten Ornament by Red Heart on Ravelry.  I have been working on finishing up that second stocking as well. Today I enjoyed a nice cup of hot chocolate while I was knitting and writing my blog post.

Finished mitten ornament and stocking in progress

Love this mug I got around Christmas last year 

Mitten ornaments on the tree

Obsessed with the cinnamon buns I got from IKEA, there aren't many left!

 I have not knitted much on the Wool and the Gang Farrah top because it is hard to tell from the photo but I think I messed up the tension halfway through because there is a space at the back so I will be frogging about half of this. I need to figure out the technique of how to put a needle through just to before the mistake happened so I don't have a lot of work to do finding all of the stitches again.

Wool and the Gang Farrah Billie Jean top front piece progress

 I did not really post a progress post on the vegan challenge, so I will just update quickly in this post. I did the Challenge 22+ last month for 22 days and it went well. The final day though, I did cheat and had cheese. I enjoyed the challenge because it showed me how many options there are other than animal products to eat and that I don't have to order food with cheese all over it all the time and make some small changes. At this time however, I do not think I will be going vegan anytime soon. I love the whole vegan community and what they are working towards but it is hard giving up so many things that I love. I am still currently vegetarian and am happy with this for now.

I started reading My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella again because I got the loan back on Overdrive, I have been reading it so much lately. I am on page 488 of 728 on Overdrive now. It is at a very interesting part in the book right now and I want to read on to find out what happens. This is the best kind of reading in my opinion, when you wonder what will happen next and it interests you. I always think back to the level of obsession when I was reading the Twilight book one Christmas. I remember that Christmas when I could not put the book down it was too good. I would love to be so into a book to that level again. I am also still reading Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed and it is also a page turner. I am looking forward to reading both of these books this month. It seems that books always come in two's for me lately, but it is because I lose my loans, then get them back again when I am already reading a new book then it is hard to juggle both. I am determined to finish My Not So Perfect Life this time before I lose it again. At this rate it is very possible. I am currently at 7/25 books from my goodreads goal now. My newer goal is to try to get to 10 books read this year. This may be possible if I finish some of my outstanding books.

I found this Santa hat in my Christmas things today and had to take a selfie with it! Ho Ho Ho!

I have joined A Blissful Lemon again with another link up. This one is called Blogmas: Naughty or Nice 2017. I am excited to do a link up again. In November I did the NaBloPoMo challenge where I wrote a post everyday. This one does not require us to post everyday but when we have time and it has to be Christmas related. I love this because around this time of the year all I want to talk about is Christmas. Speaking of Christmas, I have started decorating and will be posting an entry this week about decorating the apartment for Christmas. I am getting a Christmas tree this Saturday! Can't wait to decorate it and share photos with you soon.

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