Livin' La Needle Loca

...can you believe it?! First up, a fter many modifications, lots of tinking and frogging, the Peekaboo mittens are finally done. Specs : Red Heart Simply Soft yarn in Gray (they are a lot more gray in real life) Needles : Size 5 circulars Made them slightly wider at the knuckles and longer above and below the opening to allow for larger hands The husband has finished the staining and will seal the doors today. Here's a peek at what things look like right now: (The walls are a creamy white. This picture makes them look pale yellow.) Once the doors are dry, we can start putting the room back in order. I continue to improve, but I'm still not "well." I plan on taking it easy this weekend and will try not to overdo things. I do want to finish the Christmas wall hanging and get back to my secret Christmas projects...first I have to find them in all this stuff! LOL! Have a good one!

...let's just say that I'll be glad when I'm well! I spent the majority of the day in bed, dozing. I didn't have enough energy to do anything until about 4pm. Then I reknit the tops of the Peekaboo mittens, again . That makes the fourth time I've knit the tops, but this time I got the right length. Then I started on the right thumb...and then I pulled it out. It was just too tight. So I am now picking up more stitches for the thumb and it's working much better. Of course, by this time I was wiped out, so I didn't finish. Our new windows are in and they look fabulous! The Husband is busy painting the walls and staining the doors (let's not even talk about paint fumes and being sick...). Until he's done, we'll be living in chaos. But, it is so worth it! I'm hoping we can get the house back in order this weekend. That's it for now. Back for Eye Candy Friday tomorrow...

...no update today. I'll try for tomorrow. Feel really icky...

..and so is the Splendor yarn. While it isn't as purple as I wanted, I like how it turned out. I used two Splendor singles and one purple single for this yarn. When I ran out of the purple single, I Navajo-plied the rest. Specs: Finished 11/24/2007 Yarn Wench BFL Wool roving (4.3 oz) in Splendor 2 and Falkland roving (2.0 oz) in Purple 2 Spun and plied on Lendrum Folding wheel Traditional 3-ply yarn, yield: 158.5 yds. Navajo-ply, yield: 50 yds. Weight: 12 WPI, Medium (Worsted) weight Here's the close-up of the traditional 3-ply yarn: Here's the close-up of the Navajo-ply yarn: On the knitting front, I worked on the Peekaboo mittens in the car on the way to and from the Christmas tree farm, watching TV, and on the trip to the airport yesterday to drop off the Daughter. I love that my husband prefers to drive on these trips; it gives me lots of craft time! Anyway, when I started working on these, they were still cuffs. I am past the finger opening and working on my way to t...

...after the Christmas tree farm. It was a gorgeous day and the company was wonderful, as always. I'm working away on the Daughter's mittens and hope to get some spinning in tomorrow. Mostly, I want to enjoy this short time with the Daughter before she goes back to Baltimore. Off to make a turkey sandwich for dinner...

...and I've got a bunch to do. Thank goodness the Husband is doing the airport run to pick up the Daughter! This morning, I put the turkey in its brine bath, made a Safeway run for breakfast, and a Target run for a new shirt. Then, I went to work. Yeah...that's where I am now, finishing up a project and taking care of a few things that won't hold until Monday. Every year I tell myself that I should take Wednesday off; every year I forget. Because I have no crafty pictures, you'll have to be happy with cats. :-) Here are the two girls watching me fly around this morning trying to get ready for work: Sombra, of course sat still for just one picture before she nosed the camera. I got wonderful shots of her nose, eyes, and ears while she checked out the camera. (You'd think she'd never seen one before.) Tica, on the other hand, could not be bothered to move—I took several pictures where she is in the exact same position, with the exact same look on her face (a...

...partly because I worked on Christmas projects that are secret, and partly because the you can't really see the progress I made. **SPOILER ALERT! If you belong to the Petals Collection club, there is a picture of the last installment at the bottom of this post** Saturday, I worked on the Christmas wall hanging. I took care of all the loose threads, added a hanging sleeve, and worked on the binding. I've got about 1/3 of the binding tacked down, so I still have quite a bit to do. I should be able to finish it over the holiday. I'm having trouble coming up with a suitable name for it, though. Nothing "punny" comes to mind, at least not that I haven't already used for something else. Sunday, I worked on the Daughter's Peekaboo mittens. I didn't get very far, but at least they are progressing. Tight now they don't look any different than a pair of socks as I'm still doing the cuffs. I spent a good part of the weekend doing Thanksgiving prep. I m...