Holiday Accessories

After the beer cozies hit the FB I had a friend comment that I needed to do wine cozies.  Of course I do!  Last year I dressed up the wine bottles with hats and scarves for the winter season.  Here's a peek back on those:

I started to search through some patterns and found one I could not resist.  With Halloween just around the corner, wouldn't you love your wine bottle to wear a costume too?

A GHOST!!!  I love the little ruffles on the end.  These were created by casting on 144 stitches and then knitting together to reduce number of stitches for the rest of the body.  I had some problems getting started.  I managed to use a 16" circular needle for the first few rounds because of the number of stitches before switching to the magic loop method.  After a few rounds I moved to double pointed needles because I felt I would move quicker.  I also went from size 8 to 7 to 8 again with needles!  Oh well, good for a first try and can't wait to make more.

I try to make things for myself every once in a while.  The other day I was wandering through JoAnn's, which can be dangerous, when I happened upon a set of buttons that looked like a snowman's face.  Are you kidding me?!  So I decided I'd make myself a coffee cozy to keep in my purse for those instances when I purchase coffee.  He's amazing...

I also perfected the football laces.  Such a productive day on the couch :)