Christmastime is here....

Here I am after approx. a 4 month hiatus. Bo~Peep Fine Yarns is just more than I could have hoped for and a true blessing in so many ways! LOVE that place! Anyhoo, with Christmas right around the corner, I finally just last month began working on my New Year's Resolution (2009's) to learn socks. So I made my first set, using some kind of Plymouth yarn I got on vacation and it looks pretty good. I say "it" because only 1 sock is complete since I began them on DPNs. I am currently experiencing "Second Sock Syndrome" with sock #2. It sits on the coffee table at the shop waiting until after the holiday for completion. However, I began my second set of socks for my much-deserving husband, this time using the very popular 2-at-a-time method. Eileen (at the shop) was sick of me "dinkin' around" on an 8" Addi Turbo so she ripped me off of it and put me on the 40" #0. And it worked. However, husband will most likely them still on needles for Christmas. In other knitting news, since his socks are sucking the life-blood out of me, I actually had to buy a dear friend a beautiful scarf off of Etsy.com since I would have loved to have made her one, but time simply didn't permit. SO something handmade is better than nothing handmade.