Sunday, December 21, 2008

Christmas Week

Well I have no pictures of knitting today, but I have been doing a lot of work on the Lyra lace. It just looks like a wad of string. I got quite a bit of knitting time this week by being a klutz. I twisted my ankle in Ballet class monday night. After a trip to the urgent care on tuesday I had an air cast and crutches. I have spent much of the rest of the time on the couch with my foot up. I hoped to be done with the crutches by today, but I still can't put all of my weight on that foot. Fortunately it is my left foot so I can still drive, but work is a lot harder since I don't normally sit at my desk all day. I called in lame on wednesday and friday and left early tuesday and thursday. I do have to work tomorrow and them I am off for the rest of the week. We are headed to the grandparents for christmas unless the weather really puts up a fight.

Sunday, December 07, 2008

2 full weeks before Christmas!

I had a wonderful day baking yesterday and plan to do more today. Here are yesterday's goodies:
Dresden Stollen, Basler Lecherli, and English toffee.

I have also finished some Christmas knitting:
These are scarves for the women I do Irish dance with. I used 2.5 skeins each of Araucania Nature wool in green and Cascade 220 in a tan color. I wanted similar scarves, but not identical, so they all stripe, but in different directions.

I also got the green romney wool spun for my sister and have continued the knitting on both the entrelac scarf and the ski sweater. Both of these knits had to sit in time-out while I did the scarves, but I will get back to them later today or tomorrow.