Wow! I was just thinking that it sure had been a while since I blogged so I checked and I was right…. November something-or-other. My, oh my, where has my time gone? Well, a lot of it was spent renovating upstairs. I finally threw in the towel and we hired someone to finish it. I was stuck at hanging the drywall. Let’s be honest here, it wasn’t ever going to get done. I am now priming and painting, I’ve ordered the carpet and our contractor wants to know when he can come do woodwork and hang the doors. There is a small, but bright light at the end of this seemingly infinite tunnel.Â
I am sad to report that very little has happened on the knitting front. I have made a pair of Alpine boots (thought I had a pic, but evidently not on this computer), but still haven’t gotten around to the felted door mitten because I just do not find myself with that luxurious thing called time. I do have two more pair of the boots on que- one for my son and another for my daughter that I’ve got to do soon or they may as well wait until next winter. However, I am trying to finish my daughter’s cross stitch stocking because I feel terrible that it isn’t done. She is very sweet about it and that somehow makes me feel worse.
 I have vowed to curb the knitting instinct until it is finished, or maybe when I am down to the beading. Or until I feel like poking someones eye out with a knitting needle and really need to soothe the beast. Whichever comes first.Â
However,  (there is always a “however” with me) we have the new Shepherd’s Wool Fingering which is really making me itch to try lace- just something small, like the Reversible Lace Ladders scarf. It only takes one skein and really wouldn’t be that difficult.  Also, I am intrigued by the newest Elsebeth Lavold book The Small Things Matter Collection. She’s incorporated a bit of felting and has created some smaller projects that have the Viking Knit influence. Very interesting.
 Too many things floating around in my head and not enough time. You know those little helper elves in that fairy tale “The Cobbler’s Elves”? Wonder where I can get some? Just a few. Don’t want to be greedy or selfish. – Susan