malabrigo giveaway!

yarn and kisses is giving away some lovely malabrigo today on salihan crafts - check it out and comment on her blog for a chance to win!

sock!

i'm making the thuja socks for tg, and it occurred to me - casting on 44 sts in worsted is perfect for a grown person, but if you cast on that many in fingering it would be right for a little guy! i cast on yesterday and just finished the first one!

excited!

a package has been shipped that i can't wait to open... but with so many
projects already on the go (and a left hand that does *not* like
knitting fingering weight) maybe i should just set it aside for my own
xmas stocking?

country living

am up visiting my mum in my old hometown today - tomorrow we will drive to the cottage and back for the traditional thanksgiving feast! mum has been baking up a storm. meanwhile, i have been knitting, numbness notwithstanding! young h lost a mitten within minutes of me digging them out for the cold weather (i never sould have let him near mittens without strings), so i decided to knit him a new pair, along wit a new puppy hat, since the puppy hat is his all time favourite! mittens are done (well, i still have to do te string beofre i hand them over) and i am about halfway done the hat. i've been taking manic notes (i think i have perfected the puppy nose this time) and i'm contemplating writing up the pattern and maybe selling it on etsy to raise funds for our parents' group. we'll see. i may need to recruit some test knitters first.

i must be losing it

ok it nearly killed me to do this... may still do a little more photoshop tweaking? in any case here it is, xmas card 2009 - mainly cozy but with a hint of the spooky, a la coraline (or anything by tim burton, really). i was entertaining the notion of doing a stop-motion short all in cookies, but now that i have slaved for about a billion hours for one photograph, i think that plan may be on hold.

happiness and cheer

ok my left arm is tired from the (small!) amount of knitting i did this weekend, but i decided to press on and finish a project i started last week: the xmas cards (i am the crazy person complaining that the bay didn't have their "christmas street" section up and running in september, whilst everyone else groans if they hear one measly carol before the end of november).
anyway.
i had a bit of heartache with this earlier in the week, when in my reduced-motor-control state i bumped something and broke it in two, and then my poor husband was subjected to a self-loathing rant. but i decided that if i didn't get it done today it just wouldn't happen, so here we are.
a few work-in-progress photos to tantalise you:




oh, and this one:

long time no post

wow, it's been a while since i posted, but i haven't been getting much done. i had some x-rays done last week, and they show degeneration of the cervical spine, and c-curve scoliosis further done. my left shoulder is 2" higher than my right shoulder now, and the end result is various aches and pains, muscle weakness, and numbness/tingling in my left hand. so, not much energy for crafting.
but i did finish this sock!