One Crazy Fiber Lady

While I don’t celebrate this holiday myself, I do want to wish all those that do a very Merry Christmas.  I hope you’ve been surrounded by all those important to you.  Yes, Hannukah officially starts tonight, but my family exchanged our gifts on the 18th (not fair speeding up the knitting end deadline either!).  The twins and I are sharing a quiet {snicker} day together at home and I thought I’d take a moment to post a long overdue update.

Since I posted last, I went to my office holiday party (12/16), had a wonderful playdate with Deb, celebrated the season with the family, started a 2 week vacation, and knitted my darn fingers off.  I detailed it all in my completed album so I won’t put too much here.  Most was finished at the last much to my cramped fingers dismay.  I took almost a two day rest and returned with the Diamond Fantasy Shawl using the Fleece Artist Merino that I don’t think I ever blogged but do remember getting it after Stephanie knitted hers.  I don’t have pictures of that yet, but will save that for another day.  I’ve finished three of the six repeats.  Anyway here’s pictures of the finished gifts:

(Photos link to album page with project info.)  The natives are getting a little restless and I need to speed this up and well, sorry, links are just time consuming, even if they are pointing to your own site.  We have here the Thuja socks, a Kerchief Scarf, Shetland Lace scarf and Handwarmers.  The socks, with their huge feet parts fit my father perfectly!  The other three were gifts for the kids’ teachers.  Nope, the Rowan Biggy Print didn’t end up as gifts for them.  Actually the Biggy Print will end up in the "Looking for a home" album shortly.  I do need to do a little cleaning this week of vacation now that all the gift knitting distraction is over.

Besides the gift knitting, I also finished up some knitting for the little people:

Again, these link to the project pages in my album.  Sadly the mittens are a tad overfelted and a bit stiff for the little monkey hands.  I bought them some new ones at the mall on Friday.  The socks?  Yup, finally finished those bad boys.  Serious case of SSS for them.  Can’t believe how long it took to finish these very small little socks.

I received some very nice gifts as well.  The first was on Saturday during the playdate with Deb.  Her description of it is fabulous and I just point you there   She gave me a wonderful holiday gift!

That is THREE skeins of Zephyr in my absolutely favorite  color, along with hand made beaded stitch markers.  LOVE IT!  I’ve always wanted to try the Zephyr.  Thank you Deb!  Thank you!   I think I’ll be using this yarn for the Anniversary Pi Shawl come January 21 (official cast on date is the 22nd) when Deb and I get together for an outing to Majestic Yarns followed by Starbucks.  I think I’ll be working on the Shetland Tea Shawl from Gathering of Lace.

At risk of blowing away my crazy fiber reputation, my favorite gifts are these.  Imagine my surprise when my mother had Alex and Kat each hand me a wrapped present.  Inside were these hand/foot prints that my parents had put together.  Story has it that Kat didn’t dig putting her hands into it and they had to wrestle her to get this done.  Like the Grinch, my heart grew several sizes larger as I looked at these.  I’m trying to find the perfect place to hang them.  I now also have a guide for making further mittens… which I might do with some thinner weight yarn and not go for the felting thing.  We’ll see. 

I think I’ll leave this here.  The natives need lunch and well, I need some knitting.  Hopefully the next post will be sooner, but I’m still on vacation and will be until January.  We all know how spotty I am about posting from home.  I also have a load of email to reply to and blogs to catch up on.  Again, a very happy holiday to you.

Craft on.