Oh....Snaps!

Sorry blog-o-verse. It's been 2 months since my last confession. I have not been lost, maybe a little misguided, but not lost. The holidays kind of came and sat on me this year. But here's what I've done.



I finished the Bean and Baybah's socks. Two pairs of socks for a new knitter - not too bad. These are Baybah's and the heels do match. She wore them all Christmas day and proclaimed them "comfy". (This is my hard to please 3 year old, who needs sock seams just so - I hit a homerun.)



I made an Unoriginal Hat from the Yarn Harlot pattern to thank my sister-in-law for giving me a garbage bag full of yarn. It think it's quite pretty, and I will make another one with the other half of the Wool Ease skein.



I made 3 prayer shawls - one for the Presbys, one for the Episcopalians, and one for me. Wonder Hubby had never seen my umbrella swift and ball winder before. He got quite a kick out of the whole deal. The shawl pattern is the Lion Brand Half Moon Shawl. A fairly quick pattern that I will use again and again. Not quite the same pattern - but the pattern none the less.

I was winding yarn for a pattern proposal. We'll see what happens, but I finally felt like designing again.

We also sent 76 hats to the hospital in the middle of December, so I was making baby hats all along too.

I knit quick ornaments for my parents and my sister. I used the Berroco Minutia #6 pattern, although I did ease up and only cabled on the front of the little sweater.

I began Wonder Hubby's socks out of Knit One Crochet 2 Soxx Appeal. Seems like quite a yummy yarn. I'm just using a K3, P1 rib down the length of the leg. It's going to take me a while, I'm only 3 inches down on the first leg. But I do have my new handy-dandy Knit Picks Sock needles, along with the Knit Picks Options set. So nice and pointy. I'm in heaven. I don't ever have to look at each needle and decide which side is pointy-er.

Wonder Hubby also ordered me the Smart Patterns Sweater Designer software for Christmas, so that will be coming in about 2 weeks. It looks interesting, I'll let you know.

I haven't picked up my Oblique sweater for a while now, I hope to get kicking on that again soon. I just need to hammer out the aforementioned proposals. Which I am blogging about as a procrastination method. Need to be in the mail tomorrow. Ah well. I promise not to be so long again in posting. I'll be better. It must be my resolution for 2008.

Happy New Year!