Quick dash in to drop this off. . .

Well. got some other stuff finished and in progress and started - a bit more than I expected.
Got two more christmas presents done - I figured out a way to photograph them so "some" people don't know what they're looking at, now I just have to do it.

Completed two more blanket squares - since they're VERY small, I'll work on that duing the summer when it's too muggy to do ANYTHING else.

I put the third fingerless mitten on hold. It's safely in the wings, but there's two other things that NEED to be finished before summer is firmly entrenched, complete with stifling humidity and heat. My purple & grey wool wrap (on the penultimate quarter - the left front) and the wool prayer shawl (more than 1/2 finished). I'd put them away until winter comes, but I found a small nest of wool moths in my bedroom carpet and I don't know where they came from - best that I finish the knitting and get them dry cleaned before I find disaster next spring.

Started another project - a shawl I have had in the wings for a while. It's the Spring Blossoms shawl from the Acorn Street Shop seen in some American knitting magazines. VERY pretty (I got the cream version). Not got far into it - just two rows, but even now I'm finding that it's making me sweat. Starting it required learning a tricky technique of casting on (make a loop of yarn and crochet 4 stitches onto it, then pull the short free end to tighten the circle. Put each stitch seperately onto a double point.)

It's also the first time I've used lace-weight wool. It's thin stuff, and I was afraid of breaking it when I pulled it into the circle before seperating the stitches onto double points.

It worked, but. . .*whew*. Fiddly.

Now, I'm off. I want to get back to it in order to get one of the pattern repeats finished before I put it away into brief storage (this one I'm not frightened of since the wool/silk Zephyr yarn never saw the carpet before or after I started it). Yow!

. . .and I'm gone.