With exception of blocking the sweater for Rascal, and sewing the buttons on all of them, my three little sweaters for the grandkids are finished!
Rascal's didn't take long, being a size 6-12 months, and is the Harvest Cardigan which is a free pattern from Tin Can Knits. The pattern is well written and extremely easy to follow.
I had set aside the socks I'm making for DD2, using the tree chart from the Christmas Eve socks pattern, so that I could work monogamously on Rascal's sweater. Then I took a break from knitting for about a week while I concentrated on cutting 6" squares from old blue jeans for another Christmas gift project. Originally I had planned to have the socks finished in early December, so that I could ship them to Alaska in time for her to receive them by Christmas. But in mid-November, plans changed. A plot twist in the story of life, I guess you could say, and there isn't such an urgency now.
I think I will still have them done by our family Christmas get together, which isn't until the 29th this year. The first sock is nearly done, just about 10 rows on the toe left to do, then it's on to the second sock!
There hasn't been a whole lot of reading going on lately. Between deer hunting and Christmas crafting, and hosting Thanksgiving, I didn't open a book very often. Two shortish books are all I managed to finish in the past month:
The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
The new issue of Taproot magazine has arrived, and I've been thumbing through that at lunchtimes.
