Not the best way to start off a new year...

I was sitting around in the hospital today, waiting for them to take blood samples. (Pregnancy related - I needed to have a second glucose test done). But I did get a fair bit of knitting done. Note to self - make sure that the nurses take blood from the fingers that are NOT needed for knitting. Owie.

On a happier note, I love getting backlogged mail. This arrived today, as did some more diaper making supplies.

The Plumknit yarn is cashmere. I just want to drape the skeins around my neck and go out like that...it's beautiful, soft and lofty as hell. I was thinking of making myself the Bird in Hand mittens with it, but now that it's here...I've reassessed, and judged that it's way too nice to use for mittens. A scarf is a more likely target, methinks. And the Yarn Pirate is mine, all mine! Socks, socks, socks! I love the YP club. That and the Funky Carolina (which I flaked out on signing up for this session - doh) clubs were the best ones that I joined last year.

Here's my first FO of the year:

I started this around 1 am on New Year's Day. Insommnia sucks, but at least I'm getting good stuff out of the wasted hours. It's a cute little lined bag, based on the tutorial from here. Easy and quick, the only reason that I didn't finish it in the same session that I started it was because my ironing board was covered in cat hair. (It needed a wash something fierce, ever since my SILs cat adopted it as his favourite napping spot.)

Also finished off is:



The baby's small size diaper stash. (Well, finished as long as I can resist the urge to make more of these - they're so wee and little and cute and squishy and ... well, you get the idea.)

I whipped this up last night - it's for one of the ladies on the Diaper Sewing Divas board - it's a NB fitted from the Darling Diapers pattern. I think I'll be making a few of these for our babe, it's a good pattern. Holy snaps, though.

A heads-up about the giveaway - I mailed out all of the packages that I had addresses for a few days ago. I was hoping to avoid getting any of them caught up in the pre-Christmas postal madness, and thus to minimize the number of lost packages. But I'm still missing the addresses of a few winners: Kerry&Erin, Tara and Linda. Please contact me at theninjaknitter at gmail dot com if you're still wanting to collect your prizes, people!