Blah Day

It's one of those gloomy, blah, winter days. And I'm fighting off another round of sniffles and congestion.

No sunshine.

Lady Jane sure knows how to deal with days like this.

On the up side I've some FOs.

Baby hats for upcoming shower (for a girl).

And yesterday I finished spinning one of the Blue Face Leicester singles. One more huge bobbin of single to go, then I can ply.

Brown Blue-Faced goodness.

I'm going to go be a couch potato and knit some more.

"I'm still not sure about this thing!"

Stealth Knitting Revealed

Well, I started gift knitting over the summer, which was a good thing, given what my autumn turned out to be like. If you are interested in that stuff, you can go to my flickr photoset here and check out what was involved. The photos are completely lacking in creative arrangement, but most are clear and fairly accurate in color representation.

Gift knit bowl (felted).

My co-conspirator in spinning this past summer, Paula, has a son living in Beijing. She recently posted a link to his blog, which includes a very scary video of a Beijing bike ride, and also this post about his cute new humidifier. In the same vein, since my house has been so dry I've been generating sparks each time I touch metal or the cat, behold the penguin:

The vapor comes out his beak.

Lady Jane: "I'm not going near that!"

Well, there's this spinning wheel in my living room I haven't touched in months; I hope to make use of it today, and so have more fiber photos soon.

New Start

The least said about the last two months, the better.

They involved several ER visits, two hospital stays, dehydration, infection, blood clot, and general ickyness.

But, I'm better now and on the road to regaining my stamina (and motivation to blog). I go back to work on Monday after two weeks of providentially timed winter break.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Wish I were there . . . the high here yesterday was 14F and overnight the wind chill was below zero.