Christmas morning was a wonderful and relaxing time. I made overnight cinnamon rolls the day before, so I just had to pop them in the oven and breakfast was ready in 30 minutes. They were fantastic too. I found the recipe online here.
The kids got many little gifts of books and small toys, but they each got one larger item. For Ryan it was the Playmobil train which he'd been asking for for some time. For Chloe it was a portable easel which was a complete (but welcome) surprise for her. She has taken up acrylic painting and has had a wonderful time painting over the past week.
My main present was a new iPod and I'm so thrilled with it. I've been downloading all the knitting podcasts I can find, as well as public radio broadcasts. I'm a big fan of the spoken word, so although I'll be adding our cd's as well, I'll most likely be listening to podcasts and audio books. I think I'll do a review of the knitting podcasts in a future post.
I got these two skeins in my stocking and have already made a pouch for my iPod which will be felted as soon as possible. These are Big Kureyon and regular Kureyon. I love these self striping yarns mainly for felting because the felting produces beautiful blended colors.
Here's the cat bed pre-felting. You can see how huge this is with little Scrabble sitting there. He weighs all of about 8 pounds. This thing is huge! It's been felted and is drying now. It's still pretty big, but I'm not sure how much Cheryl's cats weigh. She has three cats, so hopefully at least one will like it! This pattern is from Cat Bordhi's A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting.
Here's another FO that I've just did the finishing touches on. This cell phone pouch is of my own invention and the story behind it is that when I felted it with the little stockings I forgot it was in there. It went through three (!) wash cycles with the Kureyon stockings because Kureyon always takes a long time to felt. When I pulled it out it was really small and had developed the crease you see here. This one is made of Blue Sky Alpaca and felted much faster. I'm sure one or two trips through the wash would have been enough. Anyway, I stretched it out as much as possible and left it to dry. After it was dry I realized I had forgotten to put in the buttonholes! So, I had to cut them into the felt. Not such a bad mistake after all. It was easy enough to fix. Well, here it is, the phone fits perfectly, and it works beautifully on my bag strap. It will mostly be hanging inside the bag, but I put it outside for the photo.
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