Aaaaaand I’m officially avoiding the baby blanket. We’re having an ornament exchange at work, so I’m working on something for that, instead. It’s either going to be a poinsettia or a Christmas ball ornament (depends on how many of the segments (or petals) I really want to (or have time to) make). Each segment is one of the “candle flames” from this shawl in red. Ten petals make a full circle (one flower or half a ball). If I do the poinsettia, I’ll make a couple of green ones for leaves and do French knots in yellow for the “stamens”. If I do the ball, I’ll make another ten in green for the lower half and sew them together (they SHOULD fit together into a full sphere). I’ll admit that I’m leaning toward the poinsettia (because I’m lazy).
Photos linked when I’m closer to done and assembled.
I’m on the homeward stretch with my niece’s horses. I picked out a frame and a mat already, and I finished the damned metallic threadwork last night.
The last time I worked with metallic threads was on a Henry VIII piece. I was using fabric with a higher thread count so that he would fit into an 8x10 oval, and that was an awful struggle.
I did a blackwork piece for my mom a few months ago and that was very peaceful work. I think I will try some more blackwork next year.
My son’s mittens are done! Well, almost. I just have to seam them up. I’ll do that this afternoon and then get stuck into the vest with the star. I’ve finished the back of that, so it’s just the actual star, which should be kind of fun. I’m copying **Unauthorized Cinnamon **and I started the Airy scarf. We compared our work at our knitting night (thanks, UC, that was really fun and we’ll have to do that again soon!). I’m obviously a little tightly wound, because my pattern repeats were much shorter than hers. I’m going to have to add 6 or 8 more repeats than what the pattern says, but oh well. It goes fast.