Savior of the Nations Come

I adore the season of Advent. The time of waiting before Christmas. The hymnody is hauntingly beautiful and the whole world seems to be anticipating something wonderful. In just a few weeks we'll have the Advent Lessons and Carols service at the seminary. I'm singing in the choir and playing handbells. The bells are doing a beautiful arrangement of "Savior of the Nations Come" which is now stuck in my head. I love it!

In the spirit of the upcoming season, I'm arranging a Stash Swap with the seminary knitting group. We'll all bring a skein or two of yarn we aren't going to use to our last meeting of the semester to exchange for something new and exciting from someone else. Hopefully we'll all find things to inspire us to do some holiday knitting during finals week!

In other news, the steering wheel cover was long enough and I did some minor surgery to attach it to the steering wheel today. I didn't have my camera on me so I'll have to show you a picture some other time.

We've got a break coming up next week and my family is coming to visit me for Thanksgiving. I'm hoping to have a lot of knitting time between the cooking and catching up. Look for more picture filled posts soon! For now, enjoy the yarn I'm going to turn into a beautiful shawl once my mom brings me the book with the pattern in it.

Jaeger Wool Silk
Colorway: Ageon Blue
8 oz/2540 yds

Its the perfect color for the season - the color of hope.

Handy Hats

Well, its a good thing we decided to knit hats for our newly-bald football players. Gettysburg was frigid this weekend! We won our first three games, but lost the championship to Chicago. Sad day. The hats were fantastic anyway. Stephen certainly liked his:

Most of the hats were solid red, but I liked the stripes on this one the best.

I don't think I explained before, but the guys auctioned off the rights to shave their heads for donations to Heifer International. We raised over $2800! I think Stephen's hair went for a llama. I and two other knitters finished 13 hats on the drive up there. We also taught someone how to knit, so we were quite proud of ourselves. It was a productive trip.

I had, of course, planned to knit a lot during the games, but unfortunately it was freezing and I kept my hands in my pockets whenever possible! That scarf is one of the first things I ever knit (knitted?). At one point I had a long sleeve t-shirt, a wool sweater (from a store, I can't knit with the stuff but I can sure wear it over things), a regular t-shirt, a hoodie, a rain coat, a hat, the big red scarf, a pair of gloves, a pair of fingerless mitts, a pair of mittens, two pairs of socks, and big waterproof hiking boots on and was still cold. Something must be wrong with me. I've been in the south too long.

Or perhaps I shouldn't stand outside in the cold all day.

I did accomplish some knitting during our inside times. I worked on these socks but haven't taken a more recent picture. The heel is turned now.

I also worked on a steering wheel cover for the woman who cuts my hair. She's also a student so we barter knitting for haircuts.

I'm pretty sure its long enough, but I have to try it on the steering wheel to make sure it fits correctly even though I measured carefully. Cotton stretches!

I'm glad to be back from my travels, even though I came home to an entire container of cat food all over the laundry room floor. I think Munkus was a bit peeved that I left him. He had fun nibbling on my needles while I worked on a surprise project this evening.