Blingola

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well! It was another tough week here. The winds were even stronger last week than they were the week before! We ended up not being part of the planned power outage on Wednesday morning, but the wind took out our power at 4pm that day. The power stayed out the entire next day and then on Friday, when the winds got even worse, we were included in a planned power outage. On Friday they had a wind gust measured at 113mph! All told, our power was out from 4pm Wednesday through 2:30pm Sunday -- just 1.5 hours shy of 4 full days with no power! And when I don't have power at my house, I also don't have heat, water or internet. I usually have minimal cell at my house -- enough to call or text the power company to report outages or get status. However, this time I only had blips of cell. I was pretty miserable! But I was definitely happier having a long power outage than if there were fires anywhere in the region with that wind! With the warning for the planned outage, I was able to fill some buckets with water so I could flush the toilet when necessary, and I was able to charge up the camping battery so I could recharge my phone and tablet so I could read and listen to books and play some games to pass the time. The difficult parts were the cold (the house stayed at 45degF) and the dark. I have flashlights, a battery-powered lantern and kept a candle lit when I was awake, but the dark is overwhelming when you only have sunlight for 10 hours a day this time of year! But, as I said, things could have been a lot worse and it's over now!

I did get some knitting done this week. I decided to make my Blingola Scarf designed by Laura Nelkin.

Blingola Scarf

Blingola Scarf - Close-Up

This scarf is made with a cotton/wool blend yarn held with a sequined yarn. It was surprisingly easy to knit with the large sequins in the yarn! And you can't really feel the sequins on your neck when you wear the scarf. This will be a fun scarf to wear! This was the project for the November 2025 Lola's Choice club. I really enjoy this club, which sends me a fun, small knitting project every other month. 

This week I also made some more progress on my La Passacaglia quilt designed by Willyne Hammerstein. 

La Passacaglia

I was hoping to get all of the stars attached to this rosette this week, but it was just too dark and cold to work on this while the power was out. Maybe this week!

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!!

Nancy