Confessions of Fidgety Fingers

I was listening the the Cast On podcast today and she played a song that I liked called "Code Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton .  I find this musician very funny, but admittedly I have a rather twisted sense of humor.  Some of his other songs that I like are "Re: Your Brains", "Ikea", "Mandelbrot Set", "Bacteria" and "That Spells DNA".

I have gotten a bit done on the baby blanket for which I was commissioned.  It is turning out rather nicely I think.  It currently measures about 10.5 inches across, and the request was for it to be about 48 inches square. The other project that I'm working on is a scarf for a friend of the family.  It is the first present that I'm knitting for Christmas.   It is an early start, but I have a few small, easy travel knitting projects for Christmas presents, so I'm using them as filler knitting, when I have only short periods of time to knit.

It has gotten cold down here in Atlanta.  For the last two days we haven't gotten out of the mid 30's (F).  Thats has made me think of hot drinks that I enjoy.  I'm currently sitting with a nice hot cup of cocoa, but I just finished making some Spiced Tang Tea mix.  I didn't quite follow this recipie, as I looked at the spice rack and added in some allspice and cardimon. As I sip my plain hot cocoa, I'm wondering what I can add to spice it up.  I know I could add some flavored booze, or some cinnamon, or nutmeg.  I have to go looking and see what I can find for suggestions.

For those of you have who read this blog in the past, you may notice that I have added in ads to the right.  I'm not sure how I feel about them yet, so I'm going to play with it for a while and see what happens.

As promised the commissioned baby hat.

Many months back I decided I wanted to try Twitter . While I was working, and had things to say, I did good at posting my 140 or characters or less. Since then I created a Plurk account. I haven't been as good about posting to my Plurk account , as I don't have as many followers there. For those of you who don't know, microblogging is a way to just put a short, 140 character or less, posting to a site, where others can see what you are doing at the time. A few posts back I mentioned a baby hat and blanket that I was commissioned to do. I just finished the hat this weekend. I haven't taken the time to take pictures of it yet, but I will get a picture soon, and I will post it as soon as I do. I'm pretty happy with the hat. I started the blanket today. It will be concentric squares, starting with black, using narrow bands of white to separate the black and red sections.

My lovely wife bought me a takadai for Christmas.  OK actualy this is a Christmas, birthday, anniversary present combination.  It arrived shortly after Christmas, as FedEx wanted to hold on to it for a little while.  I haven't had a chance to warp it up yet, but as soon as I get a few projects taken care of, and figure out what i want to braid, I will have it warped up.  i ahven't taken any pictures of it, but she bought it from www.lucets.com .  You can find a picture of it here .

Well it has ben an interesting year.  There has been good moment and bad monents.  Overall I have to say that it was a good year.  I got several projects done, and learned new things.  I maybe out of work, but I had been wanting to leave that job anyway. I have been wanting to post thing for a while as I have finished the folowing items before christmas.  The last present I had to knit was a hot water bottle cozy for my wife.  It was done with a hand dyed worsted weight wool.  This project knitted up nicely, but the neck of it seems a bit long and a bit tight.  This is good to know, as I will be making another one for my great aunt in-law for Christmas 2009. Hammie looks so cute looking over the chair. The other project I knitted was a Checken Viking hat.  I have to say this is my least favorite item that I have knitted.  The overall size of it is good, but the earflaps are a little forward for me, as the back of them come to about the back of my ears.  The legs on the side are rather ...