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Christmas? Kind of. Not really. Except I'm taking a Christmas Stocking class at Mad About Ewes. I'm learning how to get my knit on Fair Isle style, and I was supposed to learn instarsia but instead we learned something so incredibly annoying to do, I never wanted to do it again until I realized I could use it to sprinkle pretty knit hearts throughout anything I knit and then I was all "I'm sorry really annoying knitting tecnnique, I shall never speak ill of you again." The annoying mystery technique is just a way of carrying yarn behind the yarn you're working with and tacking it down every few stitches or so. It totally kicked my butt. I felt like Elmer Fudd at the piano where he gets his fingers all tied into a knot. Except with some swearing mixed in. Anyway, I bet you're dying to see a picture of my stocking:

Pretty impressive right? Aren't you loving the hearts at the bottom right before the toe decreases? I don't have any need for a xmas stocking so I chose non-Christmassy colors (pink, black, gray). Next week we're duplicate stitching our names on the top but I'm trying to come up with something else to put up there since it's not going to anyone specific. Please feel free to give me some suggestions.

When my mom taught me how to cross-stitch when I was a kid, I remember her saying you don't want the back to look messy because then you're just not doing it right; it should look almost as good as the front. Or something along those lines. Thanks to that sage advice, I'm always conscious of how the backs of my projects look.

Oh the humanity! Had you fooled in that first picture didn't I?

Looks like my balls of yarn threw up all over the place. I'd hate to be the person who had to weave in all those ends. Oh, wait...hmmm...

Meanwhile, because we're all up in the Halloween spirit what with the leaves turning colors and the temps in the 90's, I was inspired to knit a Halloween-themed pumpkin dishcloth:

I got the pattern here but didn't love the chart for the pumpkin so I reworked it to suit my own taste. I like how it came out. Next up, a bat dishcloth.