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That blue sweater that I’ve been working on since fall? I finished that last sleeve, and blocked them both. They’re lovely and drapey and have been begging to be sewn up.

One front is blocking on the couch right now, and if I have time in the morning, I’ll claim the bed and block the other front and the back tomorrow. (If I don’t have time, the pieces will continue to be blocked one at a time, as pinning something wet to the bed at ~7pm does not seem like a good plan.)

I am quite in love with felting (well, technically, fulling, but we’ll ignore the pedants).

This lovely purple Christmas present seems to have come out quite nicely. If its companion will only cooperate as well, I’ll be all set. I finished the knitting yesterday, having had a minor yarn emergency the day before, but luckily the Yarn Basket in Portsmouth had the colorway in stock and saved my butt. When I felted it, it had the usual amount of fibery mess hanging off of it. I made the fatal error of attempting to remove fibery mess from the wet, mostly-felted item by sheer force (rather than, say, scissors). As part of the fibery mess was attached to one or two yarn ends which hadn’t been woven in (fatal error the second), my tugging and pulling caused a large amount of the fabric to tear. It was decreed unsalvageable (for its original purpose, anyway), and consigned to the wastebasket. Today I thought better of it, and remembered that felt is good for all sorts of embellishments to other projects, so it has been rescued and is drying. And I am knitting another one. Argh.

I’m alo tooling around with this lovely autumnal yarn.

It’s the worsted weight merino from Fearless Fibers, but I can’t remember the colorway name. It’s reds and oranges and yellows and browns, and I quite like it. It seems to want to be a brioche stitch scarf right now, as the brioche stitch breaks up the colors enough that I find them pretty rather than garish. Cheerful, anyway. Maybe this is just an SAD thing. Anyway, these aren’t colors that match anything I wear regularly. Is it speaking to anyone? Want a scarf?

Just some quick peeks, cause most of the knitting is for presents, and we wouldn’t want to give too much away.

Kris’s shrug is blocking. It looks really goofy in this pic, but she tried it on on Saturday when it was almost finished, and it fit fine, so I’m refusing to worry about it.

It’s Shimmer, from knitty a few years ago. (Having peeked at the issue date, it’s from a lot of years ago. I keep forgetting that knitty has been around that long.) The yarn is Filatura di la Crosa Zara, a superwash merino that I love lots. It’s soft and sproingy and very forgiving. (Which is good. There would be far more wonky spots in this if it weren’t for the forgivingness of the yarn.)

Another soon-to-be present. Like those zig-zags? It’s a 100% silk singles, Jade Sapphire Maju Silk, in Wasabi.

And another. I looooove and adore the colors of this yarn, and have great plans for whatever’s left of the ball.

And that project that I said would involve some complicated finishing? It’s finished, although it involved things like this

and this.

And finally, and perhaps most exciting, not only is this the view out my window this morning,

but it’s looked like that for the last week. It’s been a long time since we had snow that stuck around like this in early December. I don’t care what the calendar says - winter is quite clearly here.

P.S. I found that missing sleeve, too. It was indeed in Dan’s car. We took the tires out (Note to Mom: Dan’s summer tires are back in your shed.) and there it was!