What a cool site that Brenda found! You can print out cute hand knit labels for your Christmas/Yule Gift Giving. I love it!

Meanwhile....Sean has been sick with a possible flu (that would be the offical diagnosis) since Sunday night. Today he seems to be doing better, except that now he is napping again on the couch.

I am planning to get some pictures up soon. I have been making some progress on my knitting, which is good since I haven't been able to do anything else like clean the house or do laundry or anything. Sean basically wants me sitting next to him 24/7. I was able to finish Bucket #3 and even the coordinating Bucket #4. I do have Bucket #5 underway, but I don't know if it is going to make it. I didn't swatch (me bad) and the band size came out bigger than I had planned, I doubled the Lamb's Pride Superwash Worsted weight (I seem to get a better Bucket when I use a bulky weight), but I forgot to double it again on the brim, so the brim is a little floppy. I really love this yarn (especially when doubled), but I think I will either need to frog it or forget it. I think I will have to finish up the rest of the list before I go back and redo it.

In other frustrating news, I did another pair of mittens to coordinate with Buckets #3 & 4, but not thinking I forgot to change needle size from the smaller ribbing needle (7) to the body of the mitten needle (9). For some reason, maybe the yarn? (Encore Bulky) or the too tiny size? the mittens look weird - not very good. I am changing patterns back to the dpn style to see if I like the results of the next pair. And dog gone it - I had a good idea with those too small mittens, since they were knit on straight needles (well, mine were circs), I decided to knit them together - so I cast on for 2 mittens and using separate balls of yarn, knit them at the same time, made it very easy to be sure that they were the same size. Except of course, they were too small because of the needle problem.

Now to try and make up some time from all this knitting disasters (guess I actually wasn't very productive, huh?).