Wednesday WIPs: Something Done, Something New

 

I just made it. I wanted the last of the Halloween socks done by Thanksgiving and I pulled it off. The yarn is Static in The Bookhouse Boys colorway and now they are in the gift box. These are man sized so they did take me a bit longer than the others.

I'm past the waste yarn for the afterthought heel on the Christmas Stocking but I've run out of KAL podcasts to knit along with so that's no fun. Arne and Carlos ended their KAL on Sunday but will be back this Sunday to begin their Advent shows. That's a good thing because I need the company.

What's keeping me the busiest this week has been this. Remember my blankety blank Riddari? I complained for an entire year about it.  I got it out of storage last week and started wearing it again and The Mister could not stop harping about how I've never knit him a sweater and could I make him one like this one. Argh....Luckily for him I like my sweaters big and baggy so except for needing some added length in the sleeves mine fits him perfectly. I only agreed to this folly because I'm pretty sure he will wear it once and hate it so it will end up coming back to me. 

And....someone asked me if the new camel project was needlepoint and it is. I hadn't opened the box yesterday but I have now and this is what I found. As much as I love Funky Flowers, the yarn is cheap and old so I wanted to try something with decent yarn. This little thing wasn't cheap. It was gulp...$70 but I'm this close to my birthday so I threw the budget out the window and bought it.