Whoo, Chloe is a heavy girl. She must have missed me over the last two days because she is giving me a lot of love right now, all up in my business.
How was your holiday? I had a wonderful Christmas, spent in PA at my parent's house. There was a lot of quality time spent with family, and a reminder of what a blessing it is to be so close to the ones you love.
The girls and I had Kitty Christmas a little early. Here is one of my gifts to them; a crinkle sack thing that is open on both ends and filled with something to make crackly noises like grocery bags. Since they love to lie on the grocery bags and it always makes me nervous for fear that they will eat the plastic, I knew they would like this. Tootsie made the first inspection, with Chloe in the background:
Then came an interior inspection by Miss Priss Brynn:
And, finally, the use which I knew would be the most popular:
All is right in the world when there is something soft and crinkly to sit on.
In knitting news, I had a little blog contest. As I suspected, I did NOT need to go to the random number generator. Kristen and Aija, packages will be in the mail tomorrow. Unfortunately, trek is allergic to cats so I can't send along a package to her. She requested that I donate her prize to another person who entered. Mom, who also commented, doesn't count (she doesn't knit socks. She does knit pretty scarves though). So that means just Kristen and Aija. I hope you like your little packages!
I finished the first of the toe up BRC socks, following Wendy's pattern. I....kind of hate it. Not the pattern...that was very well written and easy to follow. I hate the actual sock. 
I hate the heel with a burning passion. It just doesn't feel right on my foot, like a heel flap does. The cuff, which I made an effort to knit loosely so it wouldn't feel like a rubber band around my lower calf, flares and slouches. For some reason, I feel like there is a rubber band around my ankle instead. All of this means only one thing: I am a top down, heel flap kind of girl. Not that
there's anything WRONG with a toe up, short row heel kind of girl. No, no, no. To each their own. Needless to say, I will not be knitting a second sock following this pattern.
Now that Christmas is come and gone, I can reveal my one gift.
Mmm, wet goat! This is a lace scarf, made from Crystal Palace Kid Merino (gift of my sister-in-law). The pattern is also from their website but I used different sized needles and made the scarf quite a bit longer. Here it is blocking:
And here is a terrible picture of it dry and the mirror is streaked and I'm wearing the wrong color shirt, but you get the idea, and I know my mom won't let me take a picture of her wearing it. 
Tune in tomorrow to see why I'm so happy that I will never have to pin a *scarf* with roughly 200 pins and still end up with scallops. Santa was very good to me this year....my family is so thoughtful and took my "I just want fun stuff this year since I don't really NEED anything" statement to heart.
And finally.....what could this be, Amanda Cathleen?
