Cho and her un-named friend...or, All Cookie, All the Time

These are a few weeks old already, but I realized I hadn't shared the pictures yet.

Here we have Cho, for my sister:
Pattern: Monkey by Cookie A
Yarn: Claudia Handpainted in Blue Fields
Needles: KnitPicks dpns, sz 1 (but not really, they are 2.5mm)

Then we have un-named socks for my aunt's sister...just didn't feel compelled to name them since I'll never see them again:
Pattern: Hedera by Cookie A
Yarn: Schaefer Anne, color was not given on the label
Needles: beats me, LOL! I honestly cannot remember.

If you haven't tried any of Cookie's sock patterns yet, you really should.

Sore Hands

I don't have a lot of knitting to show this week because it has been the week of Yard Work. I hates yard work. However, when one is preparing one's house to sell, the Yard Work becomes necessary. Curb appeal and all that. I managed to clean out the flower beds (which haven't really been touched or weeded in at least 3 years...I know...bad homeowner.) and during this, discovered that our flower beds are apparently some sort of resort or retreat for slugs and snails. Anyway, my body is sore and my hands are especially sore. Crampy, even.

However, I do have some knitting to show! I finished the first Monkey sock, which will now be known as Cho:
Sorry, I'm not going to bother giving you all the info again...it's only like 2 posts back.

I recently taught a class on the Diamond Fantasy Shawl by Sivia Harding, using Jaggerspun Zephyr laceweight (mine is in Basil). Originally, I thought about doing the full shawl size, but I really had other lace knitting I wanted to get to, so I opted for the scarf size again. I think this will go to my mother-in-law for Christmas:
As you can see, it is blocking now.

Finally, here is my new Kleenex box, for Anne - because it looks a lot like her wallpaper (scroll down to the second picture):