Feeling a Bit Scattered

I won't lie -- it was hard to get up this morning. Monday mornings are always a little rough, but Rainbow was feeling a bit anxious about things last night and so had some trouble settling down for sleep, which meant the two of us were squeezed into her twin bed for a couple of hours. I did sleep a little, but it's not the best sleep.

Now I am properly caffeinated and planning to go out for a run soon, but first, a crafting update. We had a fairly quiet weekend, so I was able to do quite a lot of crafting, though lately I've been jumping from project to project. As much as I was trying to focus on finishing Rainbow's Hitchhiker, I realized that I'm under no actual deadline to finish it because she knows about, so I could take it to Florida if it's not done by then. I do, however, want to finish up the baby sweater before we leave so I can give it to my brother and sister-in-law as a Chrismakah present, so I gave it some attention.

Those red strings at the front are holding the stitches for the pockets, which are created in a very clever way. First, you slip the live stitches onto a stitch holder or waste yarn. Then you pick up the same number of stitches by putting your needle into the purl bump at the back of each stitch on hold. Eventually I'll put the stitches on waste yarn back onto the needles and knit the front of the pockets. Yes, I realize the uselessness of knitting pockets for a newborn, but they're too cute not to!

Because working on the shawl and the sweater weren't enough (yes, I am ignoring my Recalibrate for the moment), I cast on for a charity hat last night.

This skein of Cascade 220 Superwash Handpaints was in my leftovers bin, but when I weighed it, it turned out to be a full skein. I know it's leftover from a baby sweater I knit years ago, and clearly I had wound it thinking I'd need to break into the second skein to finish, but I guess I didn't. In any case, this is the very small start to a Twirl Away hat, which I am knitting both for the Giftalong and for the Pigskin Party.

One thing I did manage to finish was the first bobbin of singles from my Fibernymph Dye Works Holiday Countdown set using half of the fiber (shown in black and white here to avoid spoilering anyone):

After opening all the bags of fiber and seeing the colors, I changed my mind on a couple of them, so the ones in this bobbin aren't completely in order, not that it really matters. It wasn't possible to do an even split of warm and cool colors, so this bobbin is generally softer, more muted colors, and the second bobbin will be brighter, more intense colors. I'm planning to chain-ply both, so this one will sit while I spin up the second half of the fiber.

Right, time to get moving if I want to get my run in before my team meeting! Here's hoping Monday is kind to all of us.