Update

After fussing and fuming and stewing over the gloves that are supposed to be for my brother's Christmas gift for LAST year, I ripped it all out and- frustrated- started making him some giant cushy socks out of some huge wool-acrylic yarn. It was the Cottage Socks from Lion Brand Yarn's web site. I finished the first one in record time, for a sock. One afternoon and part of an evening. I amazed even myself! The really great part was when my brother loved the sock so much that he wore it around the house by itself for the rest of the evening and part of the next day too : ) I was quite tickled. I finished the other sock and his only request was a little taller next time and some elastic at the top edge to counter-act his skinny legs. I really need to make myself some now. Dang it.

I am now working on getting rid of, or at least, whittling down my stack of knitting projects that I started at one time, and never finished. In the knitting world these are called ufo's or unfinished objects. My pile is surprisingly small but that just gives me hope that it can easily get smaller. I have finished a small kimono style sweater in green cotton and am now working on a berry blue cable sweater. Now, I learned to knit for two reasons. Cable sweaters and Nordic sweaters. Love at first site forever more. The problem is that those two particular styles are very time consuming, labor intensive, and all that. This is a pretty small sweater but it tasks my brain power and energy just the same. I think it will be beautiful when it is finished, with its little cap, but it will also be accompanied by a sigh of relief. And then it will be on to the next unfinished object.

I have been feeling the pull of the book arts lately. I have many unfinished objects there too. I have a set of covers I made a while back. The front cover is a small puzzle I put together of a train rumbling along the tracks in the country. I carved out a notch on the back for a silver concho applied to the front and found some wonderful paper that reminded me of old fashioned wall paper for the back. I decided to try double book blocks bound coptic style. One at each edge of the back cover. Facing each other. They would open away from each other. We will see how that works out.

That is all for now. Until later,

Michele

PS: There will be no more photos here until I find my camera cord. I am sad : ( My camera is sad too. Especially since the batteries are dead. Double poop.