A long time friendship... I met my friend in 7th grade.    Marj is  sweet, kind and giving.  She enjoys her life, family and friendships with joy and happiness... She is also a knitter  and one day she asked me what she could knit for me....boy that was so nice.  You know as a knitter, we rarely get hand knit gifts from others.  She had just learned how to make a moebius and I said that a rich, dark wine color would be great.     I love my cowl............ Thanks M

Moebius Cowl 

She is a peach, and she collects pears.  

So here you go,  knit it in shades of Malabrigo, multi strands.  Think I found the pattern on Ravelry

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Real Men Wear Pink Donation

So hard to believe this is something I knit 6 months ago.   Knit for a wonderful cause.

Envolve Winery's function "Real Men Wear Pink".
   A fundraiser for women in the Sonoma
community who need assistance in getting Mammograms.


This is a pattern I created.  It's a moebius, 2 X 2 rib, knit in Wool-ease Thick and Quick. The body is knit in a charcoal shade and on the last two rows I added a thinner light grey yarn.   Next to last row was a mix of charcoal and lt. grey.  Last row and bind off is done in a double strand of the thinner grey yarn.




Pattern is available on Ravelry.
ElizSCknits

Keeping Warm

Coolness in Sonoma.   It's hard to understand unless you've been here, have seen it or felt it, but contrary to popular opinion California weather can be cold!!!  Now I grew up and spent the majority of my life on the East Coast, even 4 years in the depths of winter in Syracuse NY, and there have been days in Sonoma when I felt more cold and chilled then in New York.  Hard to figure,  I attribute it to the insulation in the homes…perhaps less  or maybe it's the fog that rolls in.  Do you know that it's very common to see people in Down Jackets in downtown San Francisco in the middle of Summer!!!!  My solution to the problem was to make a cowl wrap that covers my shoulders.    This is one version.