12 Weeks of Christmas CAL 2

Week 2

This week was mittens. I haven't had a pair of mittens since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I lived in Flagstaff Arizona where there are pine trees, cold winters and snow. Ah, the memories of snow and sledding...and freezing your tookus off!! So, as a commemoration of those mittens I decided to make mine red.


Wonderland Mittens

12 Weeks of Christmas Crochet-a-long

  I joined a Facebook crochet group that is having a Christmas crochet-a-long. Crochet a Long
The first project is a scarf. Here's is mine done with Yarn Bee yarn in Shale, using an I/9 5.5 mm hook.

Here are some close-ups. The yarn is actually very dark, almost black, but when the picture is taken with a flash, it appears much lighter.

Here's  a close-up of the pattern.

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1960's Kenmore Model 54

I found this little gem in a thrift store on half off day, it was $14.00. I tried hard to leave it there, I even left the store figuring that it would be gone in a hurry. But, it wasn't. I went back in the afternoon and there it was, like it was waiting for me. The more I looked at it, the more I liked its odd shape and cream and lilac colors.

Pink Atlas

New acquisition this week, a Vintage Pink Atlas Sewing Machine. I've been looking for a pink machine for a while. I have a blue Morse that also comes in hot pink, but I haven't been able to locate one of those. I saw an ad on Craigslist for this machine for $30.00 and couldn't resist. I really need to start taking before and after pictures. The machine itself wasn't too bad, but the wiring...yikes. I couldn't believe someone would actually use this machine with the way it was wired. The wires coming out of the motor were rotted and broken and the wires coming out of the cord block were spliced to two different kinds of wires, one being a three-wire cord that looked like it came off an old vacuum cleaner. Scary! So after rewiring, replacing the cord block and cleaning, it's ready to be used and it's so quiet. Oh, and it has it's pink foot pedal too!

Vintage Pink Atlas