Getting Ready for Thanksgiving and Looking Forward to a Four Day Weekend

Well, it doesn’t look like I got much done in the way of crocheting, but that’s because I haven’t had time to do much crocheting. Monday we had our KS My Stitch guild meetings and it seems like I don’t get much accomplished during the meetings (imagine that?). Look who popped into our meeting, it was so nice to see Stephanie and it is always fun catching up with what she has been doing since we last saw her. I loved her chenille scarf and how the yarn already had those pom-poms on it. During our meeting we voted on officers for next year. I thought maybe someone would vote me out but it didn’t happen, so I’ll be President again next year along with Kaye as Vice President, Donna as Secretary, and Susie as Treasurer. It was great seeing all of my crochet friends again and learning what each one of them had been doing during the month. This month we didn’t have a program so we could work on anything we wanted to.

I remembered to add the crocheted flower to the cute pink owl hat and

managed to start on this little sock monkey hat and then finished it up Tuesday morning before heading off to work.

Tuesday I caught up with the KS My Stitch crochet teachers who have volunteered their time to teach some of the women at Treehouse. We also delivered over 100 hats, scarves and gloves to Treehouse for their Christmas gift giving. When the Treehouse ladies asked if we could help out again this year some of the members and non-members jumped at the chance to help out the Treehouse. Little did I know back in September how charitable this lovely group of women really are, when it came down to it they grabbed their hooks, yarn, patterns and went to town creating scarves and hats to be ready by Thanksgiving. Some of the ladies didn’t want to make scarves but wanted to make hats, and then other ladies didn’t want to make hats but wanted to make scarves so they each paired up to make sets of hats and scarves to match and even with a few weeks to spare. I’m very proud to be a part of such a charitable group of women and will be glad to serve as President again in 2013. My boss even let me take off work for a short time to join the crochet lesson, to present the hats and scarves, and have lunch with Kaye, Lucy, and Susie. All of this makes me smile! 🙂

Tuesday night was spent teaching one student to crochet a hat. I can’t wait to see Amanda’s hat since she caught on very fast and I know she’ll finish it up by next week’s lesson. This is my hat that I made yesterday, next week I will show Amanda how to sew a flower onto the hat.

Now it’s time to get ready for Thanksgiving. Spending time with family and friends at my Mom’s will be lots of fun and sad at the same time. Even though there will be a few missing faces it should be a happy time. Although it’s hard for me to think about my Joshua staying in New York again by himself; I know that it’s the best thing for him to do so that he can work while he’s out on his break from school. I wonder what will happen this year at Mom’s? Last year the guys cut a tree down that had died; you never know what will happen this year. 😉 So what are your plans? Are you preparing a big feast or spending quiet time at home and having your big day on another day?