Saturday, October 12, 2013

Christmas Quilt Along - October



First off, my apologies for the lateness of this post. We are switching internet carriers and it is taking a couple of hours today to change over. I was totally without the internet for awhile there.

Anyway, this will be a quick post because of that and the fact that it is our Thanksgiving weekend and since the family dinner is tomorrow, I am trying to prepare as much as I can today - along with last minute shopping for items we forgot to get last night.

  This is the beginning of a sock, knitted flat. It’s not a useable sock, it’s for decoration purposes. I saw this pattern on Red Heart yarns newsletter and it sparked an idea. My eldest daughter wants a quilted advent calendar – the one with 25 small, three inch, paper pieced squares. I know it will take me a long time to make those but in the meantime, I thought I could knit 25 socks and little Luc could have fun hanging them up (I bought mini clothespins) on a crocheted clothesline in December. A sock advent calendar.

 Here’s how many I have so far. They are my evening work sitting in front of the TV. 

I have two separate sets of needles on the go so that I could switch it up. They don’t take all that long to make but I am hoping to get all 25 done in a different worsted weight colour. I don’t know if I have that many different coloured yarns. I keep looking in the bags in the closet. I do have a Value Village down the street from me so I guess I could check to see what they have to offer once I see how far I’ve gotten.

And now I'm off to get those errands done and then I shall have to work my Christmas Quilt Along project. If I have time, I shall write another post so you can see my progress, but if not, you'll know why I am busy. Family time.

I'm linking up with Joanna who is this month's  Christmas QAL hostess. Pop on over to see what the others are up to.

11 comments:

  1. What a sweet idea. All those little socks; such fun.

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  2. How cute! Your grandson will have lots of fun waiting for Christmas.

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  3. It really is a clever idea. And, Happy Thanksgiving!

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  4. That is such a sweet idea and technically you were working on Christmas , I love these little socks and I am sure your grandson will love them too! Happy thanksgiving to you and your family .

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  5. Oh wow.. can't wait to see all those socks... will look out for your linky too :-) X X X

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  6. That's such a clever idea. I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.

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  7. Oh my goodness, a sock advent calendar! how wonderful!

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  8. That's a great idea. Stretchy socks give more options for presents too. I've always been scared of making something like this unless I couldn't find presents to fit the bags/boxes.

    I understand it's Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend. Hope you have a great day.

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  9. I love those socks. Happy Thanksgiving. x

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  10. Your socks are so cute, just right for little surprises.

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  11. Must say it was nice to see the picture of your home in your header! I love the little socks idea and I suspect they will be used for ever more and all thoughts of a quilted version will fly out the window. Happy turkey day (we had ours last night).

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