FO for the New Year

I haven't posted for months. Here's what I've been doing instead.



That's 90,000 words of a manuscript. One chapter left to go. And that chapter better be done by the end of this week, is all I can say.

I did knit in the meantime. In fact, I have all kinds of FOs. I almost feel that if I hadn't been knitting, I might have managed to finish Chapter 10 as well. Except that I only picked up the knitting when I couldn't bear to sit in front of the computer screen any more.

When last seen, I believe I was crowing about the fantastic finishing job I had done on my Surface. Alas, reality set in. It's beautifully finished, true. It just doesn't look very good. I've worn it all of once. I should have made it longer. And drapier. Now I have zero incentive to knit the wrap - why bother, if I'm not convinced about wearing the sweater?



Belinda, however, is a keeper.


Even if the red part came out bigger than the yellow part. (I followed the directions to a T, but bound off a few rows earlier than directed, since I had already used up more of the red yarn.) This one gets a lot of wear.

I have blogged before about our fascination with hedgehogs (image at the very bottom of the post; scroll down). It was therefore difficult to get my husband to let me give this little guy to his intended recipient, pink though he be. (The hedgehog, that is, not my husband.) He seemed to go over well. One of those gifts where you have to tell people you really made it... (though that was probably only necessary since no one in my family would ever imagine I would or could make a stuffed hedgehog).



And one more Christmas present. I so wish I had remembered to take a picture of this after I blocked it. It's the Man (or anyone) Cowl by Michael Wynne of thisboyknits. I took this pre-blocked picture because I was so jazzed that I managed to use up almost all the yarn. (After, that is, I had ripped out a couple of inches of cowl when I miscalculated the first time through.)



This was a great impromptu use of my handspun (Spunky Club, Myrtle, BFL). I thought I'd whip it up as a simple last-minute gift, and ended up loving it more than most of the other gifts I gave.

I subsequently received an action shot to prove that yes, my brother is wearing it. But it looked really great blocked.

And there was one more gift I totally forgot to photograph: another pair of felted clogs (by request). I didn't photograph them because I only barely got them finished and felted on New Year's Eve, just in time to fit them to the recipient's foot and then leave them to dry before we all left for the airport at 6 a.m. January 1. Obviously, I have a complex relationship with deadlines.

Now, I'm working on socks. And Chapter 10.