Pre Christmas Snowshoeing.

William, Adele and I all had Friday off of work so we decided to head up to Mt. Hood to get in a day of snowshoeing before we headed our separate ways for Christmas: w&a to Maui, and myself to the Oregon coast. snowshoeing was great! tons of fresh, fluffy snow - and we were even able to wear Sookie out a bit.

It's the Holiday Season - Felted Santas!!!

In preparation for the holiday season our knitting group abandoned the needles for a bit and turned to felting to create some unique holiday decorations!   Making the felted santas was a total hit, and everyone left with a totally different looking little 'gnome' of a santa for their house. It was amazing to see how they came together from the raw materials.   Creating the actual shape of the santa out of natural roving took the longest (about 2.5 hours to felt the raw ball into a semi-firm conical shape) - then it was about another 1.5-2 hrs after that to cover the cone in red felt and add the face.  Good times! I expect the group will elect to do another felted project next year too.