I am afraid I was in bed with a miserable flu for a lot of the holidays. Started with a headache, then a stomach flu, and then the over all and everything aches, for days on end. I am feeling better now, but kind of wondering what happened to a few days last week!
I am happy to report that aside from her blindness, Molly seems to be fully recovered. She is quite bossy, and demanding at the moment, guess she figures she should be treated so wonderfully special all the time - and she is, but we try not to spoil her too over much. That was my wish for Christmas, to have my beautiful companion well again, and so I did receive my very special Christmas wish... and I am so Thankful.
Now it's back to reality. The weather has turned very Winnipeg-like. We are in the deep freeze at the moment and expected to stay this way for a week or so. We had some snow over the weekend, so now we are looking a bit more normal for this time of the year. I got my boots out of the closet on Friday for the first time this winter, so up to now we have done very well, indeed.
I have been working in my "studio". I have been designing sweater charts for doll sweaters, and have knitted 1 so far. But the needles and hooks have been busy getting a jump on some other projects for dolls that I want to get up for sale.
Here is a bit of my creative mess on my desk - a wide angle lens wouldn't catch it all, I'm afraid!
You can see to the right, some of the things I am working on at the moment. The graph on the desk is for a doll- sized Valentine's Day skating sweater, it is in the style of the Mary Maxim - type sweaters.
My Mom made so many of those heavy wool sweaters over the years - we all had one. They were made from a bulky yarn called Buffalo Wool... and they were worn from February until spring pretty much. I wish I still had mine.
I have used and made graphs for crochet many times but I have never knit from a graph before. Carrying different colours across the back of the piece is a new challenge for me. The designing is the easiest part, I am afraid I am not entirely happy with my first attempt at knitting from a graph, but I will keep at it. Practice makes it much better - I hope.
Over the next couple of weeks I hope to catch you up on some of my finished projects of 2014. Even though it was a rotten year in a lot of ways, my fingers stayed busy. That is my way of getting through things... working my hands in creating, and my mind in writing.
Tomorrow I will show you the finished results of my Monkey Business post from last year!
Till then....
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