A broken leg will do that for you. Gave me a vacation from housework and cooking and also took away my ability to get things for myself. This has frustrated me endlessly over the last few weeks, since I tend to be a “do it for myself” person.

I thought about calling this post “forget the mug, save the leg”, since that’s how I ended up in this predicament that has turned out to be a stay-cation of the weirdest kind, with me spending most of my time leg up, trolling the internet on my daughter Kaiti’s laptop, and beginning an endless assortment of new knitting projects. Seems that laying on your back for hours on end affects the brain, since I suddenly have the attention span of a gnat.

I’ve started a pair of new socks, despite having several socks crying out for mates. I justified this by saying to myself, “it’s not like you need two socks at the moment...”

The sock pattern I fixated on is the Fishnet Anklets, from Whit’s Knits over at the purl bee. I’m knitting this trial sock (notice I didn’t say pair) from some old stash - elann’s Peruvian Baby Silk in a lovely shade of cornflower blue. It’s a fast and easy pattern, once I see how it fits I anticipate making more of them, since it’s such a cute pattern!

Also on the go are a couple of lacey things - Calais, a lovely little shawlette pattern from Judy, knitter extraordinaire (her blog:purl bumps). First started in some stashed Handmaiden mini maiden in a lovely purple, then switched to some Sweet Georgia Sock yarn I picked up at Fibres West. But then I went back to my original mini maiden. The purple just was the right way to go after all, or so it seems.

Started Kieran Foley’s amazing Sound of Waves in some delicious yarn from Sweet Georgia called silk lamb lace. Wasn’t working with the needles I had on hand, so I ordered more Addi Lace and they should be on my doorstep Monday! So look for more on this one later next week.

Lastly, because I can be such a Lemming at times - I cast on a Citron shawlette in some Mal Lace that has sat in my stash,was almost traded and then ended up back in the stash to simmer a little more. I love the pattern.

I promise photos, maybe tomorrow. I need to rest my leg at the moment - it took me more than two hours to shower and wash/dry/style my hair. Broken legs, how they slow you down!

Oh, and if you are on Ravelry, feel free to look up my projects there!

...because I bought myself a present! Sock Blockers from the crazy talented Becky Freeland’s Leggy Creations store!

Aren’t they lovely? I have another pair (must take photo) that Becky gifted to me last year. They make me want to knit socks. So that’s what I’m going to do, knit some socks, just as soon as I get home from running errands before the snow gets any yuckier.

I’ve been knitting a LOT lately. If you click the thumbnail images in the works in progress in the sidebar you’ll get to see the pics larger and close up in flickr. If you click the links and aren’t a Ravelry member you won’t (unfortunately) get any further as Ravelry is still closed to the public.

Gotta run.

Thank you for the welcome back comments. They made me warm and fuzzy feeling inside!

So remember that tooth I got filled last week? Well it’s been bugging me a lot more than it should. Saturday I popped into the dentist’s office and he said if the pain increased I would probably need a root canal, but that it might just be that the filling was really close to the root and it just needed time to settle down. The pain has been getting worse, so I’m off to the dentist (in an hour) for step one of the root canal. That’ll ease up the pain and I’ll be a happy camper again.

The yarn is Noro Kureyon #131. Totally unrelated to the dentist, it’s the latest ball received from the Kureyon Club. Not the the cheapest way (for me) to buy Kureyon, but it’s my little treat to myself.

In other knitting news, Bejeweled is finished and I’m just waiting for a sunnier day to take a few photos.

And because like Becky I am feeling the love of multiple FO’s in a short time frame, I’ve already cast on for a second scarf in a lighter weight multi-coloured alpaca yarn AND as I couldn’t seem to fall asleep last night I also cast on for a pair of Fetching fingerless gloves for myself in some DB Cashmerino. I’m not sure what it had been intended for, it was just one lone ball of deep purple, sitting in the stash.

And lastly, I found this photo taken back in November when I was knitting Meeps her cozy cat bed (somewhere in the snow photos is a shot of Meeps in the finished product. I’ll try to get a better one at some point). I used 3 hanks of Gjestal Naturgarn (and yes, that is pretty close to the real colour). There’s also a ball of some novelty yarn that looked good with it, and I used the Kitty Pi pattern from Wendy Knits.