Even though the power went out briefly this morning - it was sleeting at the time, and shortly afterwards there were sirens, so someone either hit a pole and caused the outage or the outage may have contributed to an accident - things are now cozy and warm inside, where I am knitting up a storm to counter the ice storm warning crawling across the bottom of the TV screen.
The surprise xmas gift is coming along nicely. (No pix - it's a surprise.) The Trekking socks are past the gusset.
I have used three skeins of yarn on my six-skein red-red-red sweater/hoodie, so that means I'm half done, right?
And yet, I could not resist starting something new.
In the past few years, several neices and nephews have married and I'm a little surprised none has announced an impending pregnancy yet, but I want to be prepared. When I first started knitting again, I went a little nuts and bought enough Lion Brand Baby Soft and Microspun yarn to make three blankets. I completed the Sweet Cherries quite a while ago, and it is still sitting in the FO drawer, awaiting a recipient. It must be lonely because now I am working on the Blue Lagoon. I'm not really a fan of Microspun because it is splitty and the skein falls apart too easily. I solved the latter problem by stuffing the skein into the leg of an old nylon. Kind of weird looking, but it does the trick. Other than remembering which colors to switch to when, this is a no-brainer project that I may take to work and just keep there. On US 10 needles, it goes fairly quickly, too.
Oh, and here is a belated bday gift from my SO:
It's a turntable for big cones of yarn!
Hmmm. Weather frightful --> fire delightful. Maybe it's a good day to use the fireplace.
Or not.
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