Happy New Year!

The holidays are, thankfully, behind us. Not that I had horribly bad holidays (if you don't count the 7 hours in the car on December 30th, all driven by me, accompanied by the sounds of intermittent vomiting from the passenger seat....or the couple of days prior to that when I regaled all the occupants of my mom's house with a similar soundtrack...or when the kids were doing it....oh, okay, the holidays weren't great...) but they had their challenges and normal life is looking pretty good. We will complete the undecorating tomorrow.


Did I manage to finish the holiday knitting you ask? (assuming there is a you once again...I suspect there may not be). Ummm....well....no. I knitted feverishly on the Irish Hiking Scarf over the two day drive to PA, as well as on Christmas Day itself but it just wasn't happening. So I went and bought some beads and my sweet sil had to settle for a bracelet instead. As far as I know she has no knowledge of the Irish Hiking Scarf that might have been....and Pam, if you ever come across my blog while surfing the net, sorry. I comfort myself by thinking that you might have possibly not liked it. On the other hand, I'm in love with it and its going to be my scarf for next season. Why next season you ask? I'll get to that, if not today, in a later post.


Now for the lovely knitterly pictures and the run down of my holiday haul (I did make out darned well, if I say so myself). First is the photo of my mom in her Clapotis, moments after opening it. Yes, mom, I dare! LOL I do truly regret not getting a better photo of the clapotis. I had planned on making mom allow me a photo session later in the week, but as it happened I just wasn't up to photography most of the week.






Now for my husband's best gift to me-







Yes! A swift, a swift, a swift! Works great and I'm thrilled. I've used it several times already. The yarn on the swift in the above photo is a skein I just bought on ebay from Mystical Creation Yarn. Its a sport weight cotton and I'm not sure what I'll do with it. Maybe another WLD Shapely Tank or Tshirt.


Ah, well the little critter is up from her nap, so off I must go. Dinner to be made, etc, etc, etc.... More to come.......