Aunt Kate

Ok so I was extremely late sending out my sister's Christmas present. Not because I was working hard and didn't complete it all on time, but just because it all sat on my shelf undelivered for a month. Today, with school out for the day (pending snow storm on the way) I headed to the post office to send that stuff out to her. Way to drop the ball on Christmas, Melodie. 

So these socks came from yarn that does this weird thing... it isn't really self striping, but it "looks" like self striping in a spiral. I don't know what it is called. The yarn is worsted weight and it came from an online sock pattern found here...
http://www.canadianliving.com/crafts/knitting/knitting_pattern_weekend_socks.php

I found it a couple months ago when I was looking for heavier socks. I do love the pattern and they are what they claim to be WEEKEND SOCKS. I plan to make many more like this for my cold winter feet!

Aunt Kate's feet are a size 6-1/2 or 7. Me and my girls all display big feet. Mine being a size nine, and my eleven year old daughter already a size 8. I had to use little Bret, who is only nine years old as my muse to fit the socks to a smaller foot. Hopefully they will fit Aunt Kate when her package arrives.

The slouch beanie came from a pattern that Brenda and I found a while back, as we looked for a pattern she could use for knitting a hat for a friend. I haven't been able to find the pattern again since, but when I want to make another one I count stitches on the hat we already have as a measurement.

The matching scarf is just a k5p5 pattern that inverts every 10 rows until it is complete. We finished it off with pom pom edges.

Finally, but not pictured here, we took a friendship rock (in Girl Scouts if you find a rock with a hole all the way through it, we call it a friendship rock) that we found on the Lake Michigan beach visiting Aunt Kate this summer. We strung it through some ribbon, added cool beads to it and made it into a necklace for her.

Happy January, Aunt Kate.