A healthy and happy new year to all!  one of my resolutions is to update this blog more often and I will be able to as I am knitting again!! yahoo!

actually started a cable shrug – adaptation of the Paden Shrug in the Fall Interweave.  I changed the middle cables to ones that I like – but kept the outside strips.  its for my mother.  i had a cabled scarf i had knitted and she liked that so she got one present – but i owe her a bday present so that will work for that one.  need to photo it before i leave today. 

am in Baton Rouge, well, Prairieville this holiday weekend – its in the 60s so going back tonight will be a shock to the cold of New York – and I hear that it snowed yesterday!  so that will be pretty i hope…. and i hope my flight back wont be horrible!  fingers crossed – i have to go to Houston and then to LaGuardia.  long travel day!  oh well.

the bad news is that my IPOD (two years old) is broken and i cant even get it to bring up a menu – its disappointing in the extreme especially for the four hour flight i have tonight ugh!  and then the whole nightmare of getting it repaired or replaced etc.  its the 40 gb so it wasnt cheap and now i am not really in the mood to pay 400 for the 60 gb.  sigh.  and my piano is broken (more later).  it seems like i am ending the year with lots of broken stuff and hopefully starting the new year getting things fixed.

i hope to swatch for the KAL that the ARAN KNIT list is starting today – will have to play catch up as I finish the shrug and then work on that – as well as two sweaters – both of my nephews have their bdays in January – ONE DAY APART !  its a conspiracy – to have christmas/hannuakah and then bdays within three weeks – no fair!  so i will have to plan better next year!

last week on monday i finally unpacked and organized all my knitting projects and yarns etc. – discovered many projects !  some i had forgotten LOL.  so i have them all in one basket and a great little ottoman i had found on ebay – so they are in the den where i can sit and work on them and watch tv… maybe i will do what another knitter has done in the past – pick a day for a project and work on each one on its own day and see if i can get thru them that way .  its an interesting concept.

ok off to pack and get ready for the long trip home. 

Happy Knitting in 2006!