{"id":1671,"date":"2011-09-17T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2011-09-17T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T22:13:11","slug":"christmas-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTMAS is in the air?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is about 90 degrees outside and I might be one of the few people in Texas already getting excited about Christmas.<br \/>\n<br \/>OH MY GOSH! It just thundered outside. It might rain?!!?! If it does, I&#8217;m pausing in my blogging and going out to dance in it. I haven&#8217;t felt rain in four months? five? I can&#8217;t remember.<br \/>\n<br \/>I digress. I have started on my Christmas knitting since I don&#8217;t have a lot going on for Halloween this year and Thanksgiving to me is generally the day I put up my Christmas tree. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m thankful Thanksgiving morning, through the turkey dinner, and until the last dish is washed. Then, when everyone else feels like napping, I get a little bit gleeful and drag out all the shiny ornaments. Here are a couple of the ornaments that I&#8217;ve completed so far. Here&#8217;s my version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/Kat1e\/amigurumi-snowball\">Amigurumi Snowball by Dawn Finney<\/a>. This will be the only one of these I make since you have to sew it up at the end and it was difficult to make it fairly round. Even though I hate finishing work, I have to admit to enjoying the magic of the mattress stitch!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1646.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1646-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1646\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1646-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1646.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This Jingle Bell Hat is the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/deck-the-balls-2\">Deck the Balls pattern by Sonia Ruyts<\/a>. Instead of cinching up the end, I wove in the end and rolled up the bottom. I glued it to a medium sized jingle bell with GOOP.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1647-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1647\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1647-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1647.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>It is raining!!!!!!!!!!!!! I&#8217;m outta here (picture Sound of Music style spinning in the rain on a hill covered in very very dead grass).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is about 90 degrees outside and I might be one of the few people in Texas already getting excited about Christmas. OH MY GOSH! It just thundered outside. It might rain?!!?! If it does, I&#8217;m pausing in my blogging and going out to dance in it. I haven&#8217;t felt rain in four months? five? 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