Terri's Colorwork Blog

Fall is here!! OMGoodness, where did this year go?! For the first time, and yes, I'm being completely honest, I have not completed my Christmas knitting! The men in my life, hubby/sons/father-in-laws, along with two friends, were going to receive hand knitted socks, and then there are the daughter/mother-in-laws, my daughters would receive the yearly sweater, and the grand babies were going to get their long awaited Christmas Stockings! Weeelllll, let me tell you, with all my planning and good intentions, they'll just have to give me a break this year.

However, I did get to fit in designing the grand-babies Christmas stockings. I have to say I had a wonderful time designing them!! Who could stop themselves from knitting for these cute faces???

My Grand-babies!

That being said, I have added a Holiday Ornament class to the Makers Mercantile class schedule for this month so that you all can make quick, last-minute gifts for your friends and family! Christmas is saved!!!

 

I love color work, also called stranded color work, using two or more strands of colored yarn to create images/scenes in a project. From the first pair of Selbuvotters (mittens) I knitted, I was hooked!!!!

So, one day earlier in the year, I turned the fire place on, got a hot cup of coffee, spread out on the living room floor with my colored pencils and drafting paper (Thud, my 175 lb. English mastiff, wasn't overly happy with me, ha!) and went to work charting each color work pattern.  My 3 grandsons will have trains, my 3 granddaughters will have hearts, along with each child's name! It took me two days!
 

In addition, I collect vintage Santas. Every year, I go on the hunt for the most original Santa! I even found a 'wine' Santa, he is one of my favorites! So of course, there has to be a vintage Santa, fuzzy beard and all, on their stockings! (I plan on using Caribou and Wooliebullie for the beard and robe!)

See you soon!!