Christmas is Over...

... which means I now have time for blogging again. A lot has happened in the month and a half since I last posted. The new digital camera arrived, so I have pictures again. Thanksgiving and Christmas have come and gone. I knit like a fiend in between, and finished four pairs of fingerless gloves for Christmas presents. I also knit myself a hat. I gave my dad the Celtic cross sweater, and he wore it for the next two days straight.

It's finally time for me to finish my own fingerless gloves, which I began several months ago. There are a lot of projects in my queue that I've put off until Christmas was over: a hat and mitts for my dad to match his sweater, a hat for Paul to match his brown cardigan, an MP3 player cozy and a journal cover for myself. I'd like to crochet Paul a cute afghan with a checkerboard on it, and the checkers to match. I also have a couple of "impulse" skeins of sock yarn that I need to decide what to do with. One is handspun that I bought at a local fiber festival; the other is Lorna's laces shepherd sock in a colorway that I couldn't resist.

On top of all that, I got some knit-related Christmas gifts that I will need to use as well. I used some of my Christmas money from my in-laws to buy undyed yarn, a ball winder, and a basic dyeing kit from KnitPicks. I also got a gift certificate to my favorite LYS. I promised the giver that I would use it to buy supplies to knit something for myself, but I may subtract the yarn I bought for the hat I just knit, since that was for me. Maybe it's cheating, but I will knit something for myself at some point soon, so that counts, right?

Anyway, the holiday was nice for my family, and I hope it was for everyone else, too. Now, back to knitting!

New camera on its way

So, I finally gave in and ordered a new digital camera. I realize this means that my old one will reappear, just as soon as I can no longer return the new one. But I really would like to be able to take pictures at Thanksgiving and Christmas. And, I learned a lot from my first camera about what to look for in a digital camera. Plus, it was 3 years old, which is ancient in camera years. So, I'm pretty happy about replacing it for under $100. We'll see if I'm still feeling that way a month from now.

Hopefully, the new camera will arrive before next weekend, so I will be able to take new pics of my projects to post here.

In the meantime, I continue to knit furiously on my Christmas projects. I am making Paul's first stocking, knitting an ornament for the Chicks with Sticks club ornament swap, and knitting several Christmas gifts (can't give details right now; this is public after all).