Sandrey's Sweater

So three out of the four boys in my life received sweaters for Christmas. Now the Daddy's isn't quite done but that is okay! He can wait. Anyway this is Sandrey's sweater. It was knit with Spud and Chloe Sweater. It is such a nice yarn. It feels like cotton but knits like wool and it washes really nicely. I bought the yarn at the Knitting Bee of course and the shop has lots of nice colors in stock.

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Finally!

I finally finished my log cabin! I love this blanket in sooooo many ways. The Malabrigo Worsted knit up so beautifully. I am doing the happy dance!

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Cody's Christmas

So my son has a few really cool fencing coaches and every year I make them each a present. This year Cody is back and I made his big feet some socks! Cody is an Olympic epee fencer and he grew up right here in our neck of the woods. He was Gregory's first coach on his very first day of fencing. So I thought socks in club colors would be just perfect!

Sorry about the crappy photo I had to use my boys cell phone to take it! Happy Adventures, Trish

My latest design!

I designed this hat to teach a fair isle class at The Knitting Bee. It is knit with very soft Manos Maxima and Noro Kureyon for the contrast. The Noro changes colors as it goes creating a muli colored fair isle with only two yarns. It is commonly referred to as fake isle. I really like how this hat turned out and am looking forward to teaching two handed fair isle at the Bee!

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My Boy is Home!

I am not sure that I have let you all know that my biggest boy has traveled to Europe twice in the last two months to fence. He is one of 20 US male foil fencers in his age group to qualify to fence Cadet World Cups. He first traveled to Budapest and place 13th out of 198. This last weekend he fenced in Halle Germany and he placed 11th out of 180 fencers. I am so proud of him. So I thought I would share a picture of the boy at the last tournament in Halle!

While he has been fencing I have been busy knitting! My camera is broken so I am only able to share things when other people take the pictures! So Tanya took this picture of me in my Santa Hat at the Knitting Bee the other day! Oh and this pattern is available at the Bee for free with a purchase:)

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Humbolt Redwoods Half Marathon

So last weekend I ran the Humboldt Redwoods Half Marathon! I grew up in Southern Humboldt and I thought is would be so fun to run a half marathon at home! Boy I wasn't disappointing! It was super fun and the course was beautiful. I convinced my three siblings to do it with me and that made it even more special.

This is my race report! The course is very flat over all with some minor grades and a couple of small overpasses. I had to walk up one overpass about 50 yards or so and that was it. Sooooooo my 3 siblings and I hit the course together and only stayed together for about .5 of a mile. Tommy my 26 year old brother had not even run a mile in preparation for the race! He drank beer the night before and went to bed late! Yeah he beat me! I am not bitter at all:) My younger sister Isla had trained a little but not much more then Tommy, also went out the evening before and did great in the race! Unfortunately for her at mile 11 she couldn't take the shin splints anymore and mom saved her from the course! Great job Isla 11 miles is nothing to sneeze at! Oh and poor Nina! She is one tough cookie let me tell you! She ran with me for the first couple miles and then went on ahead since she is fast! She has been struggling with her IT Bands and feet four years and they were no exception on race day. She ran the first 10 or more miles before she couldn't run anymore! At that point she was determined to finish even though her leg kept trying to collapse on her! She carried on and she even ran the last 200 yards to the finish! I passed her at mile 10.5ish and she was walking almost as fast as I run at that point! I am soooooo proud of her and I hope she does another half when we figure out those inguries! I think she needs to challenge Tommy again because she can soooo beat him! Oh and he needs it! So I ran my steady pace the entire race, I enjoyed the trees and found people to talk to! It was awesome. I finished in 2 hours and 18 minutes and beat my goal by 5 minutes. I am soooooooooo happy with how it all turned out. It was an amazing experience to be on the race course with my family! My mom kept driving to different spots and cheering us on! I will cherish this forever:) So if your thinking of doing this race my only complaint was the post race food. There was no protein at all and the fair was sparse. By the time I got somewhere that I could get a meal I was feeling pretty crappy. So if you do the race you may want to pack a sandwich to eat in your car post race:)

Pumpkin Season

This time of year in our area there are lots of Pumpkin Patches, we try to go to a different one ever year. This year we went with my friend Chrystal and the kids all had a blast!

I hope you all have some great adventures this fall! Oh Oh and I finished a sweater:)

This is Mulled Cider by Thea Colman. I changed the neck but other then that I followed the pattern. I loves it! I used Tara Tweed that I bought at the Knitting Bee and my sweater is on display at the Bee if you would like to see it in person. Happy Adventures, Trish