I can't believe it's the last day of November. I'm pretty sure I've said that on the last day of just about every month for the past two decades, but especially for the past nine months!

Button "doorknobs" affixed, no tufting, taken in the o'dark-thirty of the morning before leaving for work… just turning cobalt outside.

Yesterday, I made good progress on a similar project, also destined to be a pillow but possibly square. I'll have to decide that before I do anything else.

This is the "Village" design from MDK Field Guide N0 16: Painterly. 

I've done intarsia only a handful of times… it's fiddly and tangly and this is far from perfect and I'm OK with that. There may be some improvement when the ends are woven in and it's blocked!

I'm making do with what I have while I await a yarn order (or two), and made a color card with my subs. The yarns for #11 & 13 are on the lighter side weight-wise, but I'm OK with that, too. Making do.

 

First attempt:

Already undone and moving on to another idea. The "tufting" is too loose, but I don't want to make it tighter because it won't look/feel that great. Also, not centered… I usually like things on the asymmetrical side of things, but not this.

It seems like most things are taking three tries these days… maybe I'll get away with two for this!

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

We brought the tree up yesterday and I replaced the two dead light strings that I'd removed last year when we took it down. Kate's hanging the stockings on the staircase.

Kiddos commenced with decorating when they arrived.

Junah made some new ornaments! 🙂

We had a nice day yesterday, even with a broken ornament or two and a piece of pumpkin pie w/whipped cream face-down on the floor.

Whatchagonnado?

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!