Ok, so here’s my plan on the hooded scarf. I’ve knitted to the shoulder area then I did this crazy increasing going from 20 sts up to 38 sts row by row and now I’m knitting to the top middle of my head. The plan is when I get there I’ll place those 38 sts on a st holder and start over again in the same manner for the other side . Then seam the two pieces at the top and back to form the hood :shrug: If it doesn’t work out like it is in my head then I’ll go to plan B . Don’t really have a Plan B yet, because I’m hoping Plan A is going to work 
I’m not sure I follow exactly but I’m crossing my fingers for Plan A to be a rousing success.
Basically I started knitting a scarf casting on 20 sts of a bulky lion brand wool-ease yarn and I keep holding it up with the cast on end resting at just a smig above my knee cap working on it until it’s long enough to come all the way up and rest on my collar bone. When it was at my collar bone I started an increase of ktbl by knitting two sts then ktbl or maybe thats knit front and back into one st , not sure . I went from 20 sts to 26 on the first increase round and on the next row increased the same way going up to 34 sts and the next row increased to 38 sts now I am straight knitting those 38 sts until I feel I have reach the middle of the top of my head. This will be two pieces knitted the same(mirror image of each other) and seamed at the top of the head area and down the back of the head. Does that help ?
Hope this is clear enough to see. This is the end that is at my collar bone going up to top of my head. Way down at the beginning is my CO edge where I started
i’m with you. and then the ends of the scarf will get folded up and side-seamed, for pockets?
I think I got it now. Thanks. Sounds good to me. I think you described two different projects before and I got them confused and muddled.
So much to do today . Knitting is on hold :mad: because someone decided to bring all the Christmas lights down from the attic :wall: I thought we had this discussion and the plan was to past on it this year because it’s getting to late and I get home late from work last night with woho (notice lack of excitement) boxes and bags of lights everywhere. Plus now we have to go to the storage unit and get the light trees. As I get older , I’m just not into all the hoplaa of the season. I just don’t have the energy anymore.
I have to stop here to explain my ingenious idea that I had one year . I took metal tomato cages and tied the 4 prongs that you poke into the ground together to form a Christmas tree shape. Then I wound all different kinds of lights around the 9 shapes I had made. I placed them around the front yard and secured them into the ground by taking a thick wire and twisting it to make a thicker wire and made like a clothespin and placed them over the metal (what would’ve been the top of the tomato cage ) and pushed them into the ground. We leave the lights on them and just store them away .
It’s going to be a long weekend.
i’m feeling your pain… i’ve never been big on holidays and holiday decorating, not even as a kid… thanksgiving is my family’s BIG holiday, and while even it has been scaled down a bit every few years, it’s still the most meaningful one for us… but the rest, ugh… couple my already diminished enthusiasm with 6 years of retail, and it would be almost impossible for me to care any less than i already do. everything starts 4-7 months early, everybody’s grouchy by the time of the actual event, every store is a mess, everybody’s overspending, etc etc etc… fingers crossed you get through the day/weekend in one piece and you’re satisfied with the results even if there weren’t supposed to be any results to begin with. and then start talking tomorrow about how next year there will be none of this foo-fah, and then repeat that daily. 
Your cagey trees sound pretty cool to me. I’m not big on holidays at all. There’s a long history that you don’t want to know. My philosophy: If it’s your project, it’s your problem.
Funny story: As a baby my son wouldn’t sleep through the night because he couldn’t wear plastic pants (I didn’t know about the wool soakers until many years later, after both kids were grown) and would get wet and cold. I would change him, lay him on his tummy (a big no no now) and plug his pacifier into his mouth and go back to bed. He’d go back to sleep and sleep until a reasonable time in the morning. When said child was about 6 months old my then husband who had been working nights switched to days and was sleeping very lightly. He would get up with baby boy before I was awake enough to do it. I warned him not give baby a bottle at night. He did anyhow. I told him fine, you get to get up with him from now on, I won’t do it. When our son was about a year old daddy got up one night and couldn’t find the bottle. Next morning he accused me of hiding it. I told him I hadn’t and started to tell him where he could find it. I never got to finish. He told me, never mind - he went back to sleep. When my son was a year old daddy got weaned from the night bottle. :teehee:
GG, I can count on one hand all the things hubby did to help me when I had three in diapers and two on the bottle. But then I never asked for help. He’d want to go somewhere and it would take me 45 mins to get the three of them ready to go in the car, not once did he ever offer to help. But then on the good side he was dependable as far as getting what ever I needed , bills were always paid, food was always plenty and we never wanted for anything. He didn’t hang out at bars never did drugs and treated me like a Queen. But as far as the three kids I was totally in charge of all of their needs . He was always working on old cars to resell for extra money to the guys at work. Never has cheated on me and we’ve been together now for 44 years . I’ve always told him he was lucky he married me because no body else would have put up with him like I have. Don’t get me wrong I love the man to the moon and back . I have a sign that reads ’ The prefect marriage is falling in love with the same person over and over again’ But when we were younger I wished he could have been just a little more helpful with the babies. I look at the young fathers now and I see a much different breed of fathers . More on hands with helping mothers.
Funny thing is now after all these years, our rolls have reversed. He does all of the shopping, cooking, laundry and sometimes he will even run the vacuum:rofl: and I work 40 hours a week. He even makes me breakfast and packs my lunch. Nowadays if I make toast I consider that as cooking .
X, I agree. Christmas is just to commercialized . Now kids expect certain gifts ,not like when mine were little. We always had the floor under the tree packed with gifts and they never had a clue as to what Santa had brought them, total surprise always.They were always thankful for what ever they got and never complained if they didn’t get what they wanted. We stopped getting what we were told to buy for the Grandkids after my one DIL informed me that the Leap Frog that we had bought was making her mother upset because she had bought one too and she was embarrassed because she had bought the cheaper one. So we were told we would have to take ours back and get something else :noway: after that we decided to just give the GG’S money , no one ever turns money down. It all left me really upset and changed how I felt about Christmas and family.
Thanksgiving is more important to me as well. It’s the one day I can hopefully bring my family together. So I can relate with you on that.
My grands are somewhat spoiled…OK they’re on the doorstep of rotten…but they’ve been taught to say thank you and always appreciate gifts. They both love handmade gifts. For that I’m very grateful.
Here’s a new project my daughter wants her father to make her. He said he would but he’s not mailing it down to her
That’s cool. No, mailing it isn’t a good option. I guess she’ll just have to come get it. 
Yeah ! I’ll get her back up here for another visit !!!:yay:
Nasty job there, but someone has to do it. :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:
Any excuse will do.
So I’m getting a cold and hubby wants to make his awesome chicken Noodle soup for me, only thing is he can not just make a small amount …oh no! he makes enough for the whole winter and after awhile I just get sick of eating it . It is awesome for a cold though. I think it’s the Garlic and Horseradish that he puts in it that help the chest and head colds.
Get well fast. Freeze the soup? Small batches of soup aren’t in my repertoire either.
Some glad morning when this life is o’er,
I’ll fly away;
To a home on God’s celestial shore,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away).
Chorus
I’ll fly away, fly away, Oh Glory
I’ll fly away; (in the morning)
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away).
When the shadows of this life have gone,
I’ll fly away;
Like a bird from prison bars has flown,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away)
Chorus
I’ll fly away, Oh Glory
I’ll fly away; (in the morning)
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away).
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Oh. How glad and happy when we meet
I’ll fly away
No more cold iron shackles on my feet
I’ll fly away
Chorus
I’ll fly away, fly away Oh Glory
I’ll fly away; (in the morning)
When I die Hallelujah, by and by
I’ll fly away.
Just a few more weary days and then,
I’ll fly away;
To a land where joy shall never end,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away)
Chorus
I’ll fly away, fly away Oh Glory
I’ll fly away; (in the morning)
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away
Ok, so can someone tell me what type of yarn this is!?! and what stitch is used LOL !!