60th Birthday Gift

My dad celebrated his 6oth Birthday this past December and I decided to make something unique for him. I knitted this fair isle scarf using a number of different patterns, some homemade, some taken from other patterns. I started the pattern knowing that I wanted to reference the year of his birth. Hence, I decided to put "EST. 1947" (established 1947) on the bottom of the scarf, with his initials "JSA" above. He is an avid cross country skier so I thought that he would love to have snowflakes, fellow skiers, and trees draped around him. Then there are the hearts. A daughters love for her dad.


I had so much fun knitting the scarf I thought I would make a hat to match! This was his Christmas gift. (Poor guy, he has had to live his whole life with a birthday a couple days before Christmas. Talk about being gypped!)

They were both a hit, although he did express the desire to hide the "EST. 1947" section from view.



This Christmas was pretty mellow. I decided that this would be a year of homemade gifts. The hat for my dad, a club cover with hearts on it for my mom (sorry no photo of that creation) and then I finished up an afghan that I had been working on sporadically for years and gave it to my sister. This is from the night of it's completion. I guess I was worn out from all those granny squares! When I put them together I set them at a diagonal so that the edge of the afghan is a jagged line. Well, she seemed to love it! I am sure that it will find it's place in her home. Chris expressed some worry about the blankets ability to provide warmth due to it being full of holes. Sometimes it is more about style than warmth!



After Christmas I felt like I was missing something without a project to occupy my hands. I did a little research and I started on a great little sweater pattern I found for some friends of mine who just had a baby boy. This is "the not so baby yoda" sweater. You can find the pattern here. Finished it today! Now to pack it up and ship it off.

So, what's next? I have a couple projects in mind that I would like to do, but it is difficult to decide where to start. So many ideas... so little time.