Thankfully

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I only have a moment my dear ones, since this:

is not yet a pie, and this:

is not yet a sweater. 

Rest assured all is well here, if a little harried, as I gather all my girls under one roof for the holiday.  Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends (whether you’re Canadian or not, how can a little extra Thanksgiving hurt you?) and know that if there was just one thing I would ask for, it would be that somehow this weekend translates into a lot more knitting time than it likely will.  The Rhinebeck sweater is, after all – still only sleeves. 

123 thoughts on “Thankfully”

  1. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Try to get a little down time. It will be wonderful to have everyone together. I will, too. Just the thought of it makes me smile.

  3. But SUCH pretty sleeves!
    Happy Thanksgiving from the south side of the border (Vermont).

  4. I would be completely in favor of celebrating Thanksgiving more than once a year, especially if extra pumpkin pie was involved.

  5. But how could there be sleeves already? I feel like you might have some kind of magic on your side!

  7. Gorgeous fall colour (your sweater, that is)–reminds me of pumpkin spice cake. I’ll be looking for it at Rhinebeck, but don’t stress out getting it done; remember, knitting’s supposed to be fun.
    And as a follow-up to your speech at KnitEast, I’m convinced the reason the traffic cop in northern Maine gave me only a warning for speeding and not a ticket was that my friend, Janie, was knitting beside me for the duration of our stop. Some of her calm must have rubbed off onto him!

  10. Oh but the little pumpkin and the pretty sleeves color coordinate beautifully. I think it’s a sign of good things to come and many more things to be thankful for.
    Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

  11. If I lived closer I would volunteer to help you get done any of the non-knitting things you needed done, just to give you some extra knitting time.

  14. Your sleeves are simply lovely. Your daughters are all old enough to make Thanksgiving for you, so you can get a wee bit more knitting time.
    I am with Michelle. Extra pie is a perfect reason to celebrate Thanksgiving multiple times a year.

  15. It can’t be fall yet. You must have lots more time to work on that sweater before Rhinebeck, because it just can’t be this late in the year. Someone go check the calendar, because there has been a mistake.

  16. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! It’s time the girls learn to make Thanksgiving dinner with you merely supervising from your favorite knitting perch! It’ll be good for them!

  19. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and all those nice Canadians! And that’s a lovely autumnal sweater. Question: do you always do sleeves first? If so, is it for any particular reason? I always do front and back first (for no particular reason) and dread starting on the sleeves every time. Maybe I should get the dreaded part out of the way first…Again…Happy Thanksgiving.

  20. Please give the girls — no, the ladies — all my best. I know they’re off making the world a better place, but I miss seeing their blurry orchestra concert photos and such.

  21. Happy Thanksgiving. This will be the firsst Canadian thanksgiving that I will miss in a long while. I will be thinking of my Canadian family and friends this weekend.

  22. That sweater is a delicious, delicious color. About as delicious as I imagine that pie will be.
    Also (on a completely unrelated note), I saw a video of you doing Irish cottage knitting. I’m beyond amazed. I’m trying to decide if I’m capable of doing that.

  24. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! My pumpkins are roasted, scooped, and frozen, but also not yet a pie. The sweater I want to wear when I visit Montreal on Tues (!) still needs a buttonhole band, but I think I’ll make it. Yeah, I’m missing Rhinebeck to be at a work conference in Montreal.

  25. It’s Thanksgiving in Canada already? I should have been Canadian! I love pie. And that sweater is glorious. I am working with Shelter right now on the Bedford sweater and can’t get enough of it.

  26. Happy Thanksgiving! What a great idea to start with the sleeves…they always seem to take the longest to knit.

  27. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Thanksgiving is, without a doubt, my very favorite holiday, since it involves the things I love best: family and sharing food. Maybe we’ll have to celebrate your Thanksgiving here, too, and then I get two 🙂

  28. A wonderful weekend to you and yours. May the pie elves visit, and make it a snap to get done. I give thanks for the fun and humor and warmth and wisdom you pass our way each year. Happy Thanksgiving!

  29. Hmm, you can knit and bark out orders as the family members run around and cook the T’giving dinner! At least that’s what I would LOOOOVE to do when the US T’giving rolls around in November! That is a wonderful-looking pumpkin, by the way. So symmetrically pumpkinny.

  30. Happy Thanksgiving!
    And, may I thank YOU for your enjoyable blog, books, and the great time I had at both Sock Summits!

  31. Happy Thanksgiving from California!
    There’s a slight chance I’ll be moving to Canada next year – having two Thanksgivings will be yet another bonus. 🙂

  32. I’m Thankful you have yarn to knit with. Thankful that you have food to feed your girls and Joe with. Thankful your family is healthy. And thankful you have a blog so I can read your wit. Happy Thanksgiving!

  34. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, Stephanie. I have much to be thankful for in my life. And I’m extra thankful that I might reach the beginning of the border for my shawl tonight! 🙂

  35. Michelle at 4:18 – a Rhinebeck (October) vest as a “fall” “back” position? Maybe that punkin is catching.

  37. Good luck with the pie and the sweater. Really, if the pie doesn’t make it but the sweater does, it will have been for a good cause. Happy Thanksgiving.

  40. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! I have pumpkin bread in the oven, even though our Thanksgiving isn’t until next month. (Not enough knitting time between then & Christmas. . . wish ours were now, too!)

  41. Happy Thanksgiving!
    I am sure the sweater will take the hint and be a full sweater as soon as possible!

  42. Well, if you were living in the middle ages, those sleeves would be known as scoggers. The ones I’ve seen though, were plain. I guess they hadn’t invented cables yet. Yours are very pretty. Have a lovely Thanksgiving weekend, and if things get a little crazy, just open a can of pumpkin for your pie. It will give you more time to work on your sweater.

  43. Happy Thanksgiving! This American is SO grateful for your books and blog – the former makes an otherwise-dreary bus ride so much better!

  44. Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving! (and the sweater looks like it’s going to be gorgeous!).

  45. I gasped with your opening photos. Today there are two sleeves, almost complete, and on 28 September there were skeins of wool. Your are amazing.

  47. They are indeed bee-yoo-tee-ful sleeves! (One can only hope the body will live up to them – but I’m sure it will; it always does!). The color will be lovely on you, as well. Have you tried using a Cinderella (french) pumpkin for your pies? They’re amazing.

  50. Adore your Rhinebeck sweater, even though it is only sleeves. I think you could get away with just wearing the sleeves at Rhinebeck, we would all understand.

  51. Beautiful. Gorgeous. I wish I were a faster knitter (four months into becoming a knitter vs. only a crocheter, and my knitting speed is glacial…).
    Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family, and to all Canadians. When things get completely nuts down here in the U.S. of A., I like to think of moving to Canada. I *almost* did, back in college. I still think I should’ve done it.
    A rational, peace-loving, mostly English-speaking (but that’s the least important factor to me) country VERY close by!
    Happy Harvest Time.
    DogCatMom
    S.F. Bay Area

  53. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and friends and all Canadians! I’m thankful for knowing you through your books and this blog. May everyone find happiness and peace!

  54. Enjoy this special time w/family. Might be the perfect time to work on the mindless, boring miles of stockinette of Wild Apples Bohus. Bet that could get finished before Rhinebeck!

  57. Happy Thanksgiving!!!
    I’m sad that my pre-ordered copy of your new book won’t have arrived in time to bring to Rhinebeck, but I still plan to stop by and say hello! And if I can get my act together (ha!) I may be able to bring you some more Louisiana coffee if you’d like!

  58. Happy Thanksgiving-Enjoy having your girls home and treasure every moment. That is indeed something to be thankful for.

  59. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. That colour of Shelter is fantastic, and to combine it with Fiona’s pattern – can’t wait to see it done. And I have no doubt it CAN be done. Knit on!!

  61. Happy Thanksgiving! There you are working on a sweater for Rhinebeck and I’m hoping to get socks done for Rhinebeck. Sigh.

  62. Happy Thanksgiving to you too Stephanie!! Can’t wait to see that Rhinebeck sweater in person. 🙂

  64. Sweater will be gorgeous but if not completed on time, turn them into arm warmers and start a new fashion!

  66. I’m looking forward to seeing photos of the finished sweater, as the sleeves are already gorgeous. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, and good luck with the pie and the sweater!

  67. Happy Thanksgiving to you & al your loved ones. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday – all about family & none of the stress of Christmas.

  71. Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Canadians! Can’t wait for the American one next month…family, friends & food (and knitting)…what could be better!

  72. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! There’s never too much Thanksgiving — I think we should start celebrating with Canadian Thanksgiving and go right through the American one next month!

  76. I have seen videos of your knitting speed. I *know* you can finish this sweater (you have almost a whole week!)and wear it proudly at Rhinebeck. LOVE the color! The pumpkin pie from the pumpkin I am not so sure about.

  78. Georgia @ 4:07: ALWAYS get the part of the chore you deem the worst out of the way first. Always.
    And happy Thanksgiving to all Canadians, knitters and non- !
    The sweater sleeves are gorgeous; and I didn’t even like that color of Shelter to start with.

  79. Happy Turkey Day From Fort McMurray. The sweater is looking sweet! I have the wool for mine on order 🙂 Burnt orange with chocolate brown trim. Can’t wait to see it finished! 😀

  80. Oh! But what lovely sleeves they are!! Happy Thanksgiving to you! You’re right, you can’t go wrong with an extra Thanksgiving.

  82. Happy Thanksgiving!
    Did you mention the sweater pattern, and did I miss it? I don’t recall your doing closed-ring cables before. Though clearly I miss a lot.

  84. Happy Thanksgiving, Stephanie. I’m thankful for you, your humor, your wisdom, your shared knowledge, your books…. The sleeves are lovely.

  87. Happy Thanksgiving Steph! A seriously great holiday!
    Don’t hurry on that Rhinebeck sweater, weather is forecast to be in the mid 60s!!! Heavenly and not sweater necessary.

  88. Just want to wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving and enough knitting time! Can’t wait to see that sweater finished.

  89. Sorry to be missing Rhinebeck this year…but my youngest has her first college break after leaving the nest…and somehow it doesn’t seem right that the day after she gets home, Mommy takes off on a yarn binge. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving.

  90. Oh wise Canadians! Thanksgiving at a time of year when the bounty of autumn is readily apparent? It makes so much sense. And that sweater is the color. I mean, it is THE color! Beautiful!

  93. Cables and Thanksgiving. Perfect.
    You’re right, a little extra Thanksgiving never hurt anybody.
    That yarn is stunning. It’s the Shelter, isn’t it? My favorite colors are ocean colors (both northern and tropical), moss greens, and anything in the range of rich shades of rust, sandstone, russet, or pumpkin. It is a flat-out gorgeous color. And also, CABLES!
    BTW, I always knit the sleeves first, especially in a complex pattern. It really does make the sweater go faster. It keeps you from getting bored halfway through and saying, “oh, a vest will do just fine,” and delightfully, when the body is finished, the sleeves are already done so you can either charge on to sewing up if you have knitted it in flat pieces, or join the sleeves to the body and get on to the exciting part of the yoke without having to wait for the sleeves to be done for a yoked sweater. Win-win either way.
    I’m old school with socks — I always use dpn’s for my own socks, although I learned all the methods so I could teach students — but I do use the two-socks-at-once methods for sleeves, because, while I do not have a problem with Second Sock Syndrome, I do grumble mightily at Second Sleeve Syndrome.
    Enjoy your holiday! I have a weekend off after many months of not. I may cheat a little, buy a pumpkin pie from our neighborhood whole foods bakery and knit on the porch this weekend. It’s far from cold enough for a fire yet, but it’s JUST cool enough in the late evenings in Louisiana to enjoy the brisk breeze on the porch while knitting or spinning.

  96. That yarn is so gorgeous, and highlights the cables perfectly – I love cables, and I know they can be complicated, so I’m totally impressed you’ve gotten this far.
    If you use markers, you can just draw on the pumpkin and go back to knitting. Just a thought…Happy Thanksgiving!

  97. You could always say that they are arm warmers and then expand them to a sweater for next year’s Rheinbeck.

  98. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours (family and friends). As you gather round your feast, I hope realize just how thankful we are to have you in our lives, if only vicariously.
    Ruth

  99. hi! Happy Thanksgiving to you all, too! I see a few hours of guaranteed knitting time – while the pumpkin bakes into puree and the puree bakes into pie. Every little bit helps.
    That promises to be one gorgeous sweater, whenever you finish it. Knit on!

  100. Happy Thanksgiving! It is always time to celebrate when you have your family about you.

  101. Happy Thanksgiving! I always start sweaters with the sleeves. The sleeve is often my gauge swatch! Besides, what can you do with two sleeves? Nothing, so you have to finish the sweater. Good luck!

  102. some extra Thanksgiving? Thankyou! In November I’ll send you a bit more….family, friends, sharing a meal, counting our blessings… More of that is a good thing…

  103. Happy Thanksgiving hugs to you even if you are Canadian! This was just a beautiful blog, the pictures make a non orange lover love orange. Perfect for the seaon and isn’t that yarn just yummy in the hand.Looking forward to your new book and see you at Powells. 🙂

  104. Happy Thanksgiving Day weekend! May you find pumpkin pie on your table and a brand new sweater all complete and ready for Rhinebeck.
    Can those girls knit? 🙂

  105. Happy Thanksgiving to you, Steph. I and the Portland contingent are looking forward to seeing you again in Stumptown.

  106. If possible I do my sleeves first. They make a better gauge swatch than a bitty postage stamp. And if you time travelled 500 or so years you could just tie them on to something or other. Maybe set a new trend at Rhinebeck! Looking forward to seeing you and your new book.

  109. You are amazing. I can’t believe you’re already through the sleeves. You GOT this.
    Hope you had a nice holiday!

  111. You mean you **don’t** make pumpkin pie from a can??? Shocking in this day and age, shocking! You making a pie from a can gives you more time to knit AND you’re less likely to injure yourself with the knife needed to carve the pumpkin. But you know this already probably. Pretty sweater, btw, but I’m hungry now and thinking about pumpkin pie. Happy Thanksgiving!

  113. And a lovely Thanksgiving to you and your family, plus an extra huzzah! for pumpkins and pumpkin-colored sweaters.
    If I tried to wear something that color, I would look like John Boehner!

  117. Happy Thanksgiving. I love holidays because after the ‘big bruhaha’ you can usually get a lot of personal time in. Everyone’s tummy’s full, there is extra if they want it and the house is (relatively) clean. Time for some R&R.

  118. On an unrelated note (you seem good at that), you might want to consider (ahem) revising your goal for MSF, since, at this point (ahem) the amount of money raised (quite commendably) seems to exceed your goal. Since (as you have noted) this is the season to be thankful and think of those less fortunate, perhaps you should consider revising your goal. (By the way, looking at the map, I, lving in White Lake, Wisconsin, 80 miles north of the frozen tundra where the ever-beloved Green Bay Packers rule, am considerably north of you.) (My goal is not to turn my furnace on until not earlier that November 1, which may take quite a bit of wool.) (Have you noticed that I use entirely too many parentheses?)
    Barbara

  119. I just celebrated Thanksgiving with the in-laws, where I once again made the awesome cranberry sauce recipe you shared a few years ago. Thanks for that, and I hope your celebration was as happy as ours.

  120. Hope you all had a lovely celebration today. I couldn’t agree more – we all would surely do well with a little bit more thankfulness.
    Peace and joy… Diana

  121. Happy Thanksgiving to you & all of Canada – and to my dear daughter & son-in-law who are living in Vancouver and working at UBC – beautiful place.
    It’s kind of nice the Thanksgivin in the US is in November – I agree we all need more thanksgiving

  122. The sugarpie pupmkin…such options.
    A pie, or beer.
    I personally choose to make it beer. 🙂

  123. Happy Thanksgiving! I could use an extra one…if you don’t mind sharing I may just start celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving as well! Beautiful color/sleeves!

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