Gift knitting

We went to my parents' for an early Thanksgiving celebration the weekend before. I'm glad I decided to go ahead and try one of the in-process arm warmers on the nieces, because while it fit the younger one just fine, it didn't even come close on the older one. She's in competitive gymnastics, and, wow, that girl has some muscles.

I also decided to switch yarn for the older one's set. I had been working on her pair, and she didn't seem to like the yarn much. And after I thought about it, it's really not her. So I dug into my stash and came up with some jewel toned sock yarn that will be perfect for her. I'm on the first set of decreases already, which is pretty good since I didn't start it until Thursday.

I screwed up on the decrease section of the younger one's armwarmer, so I'm tinking back. I can't quite figure out where it is, but going back to the last decrease should help. I've been a little too mindless in my knitting on these, I screwed up on the older's one, too, but decided that a well placed-decrease would fix the extra stitch that creaped in there. And given how long it took me to find the increase, it won't be an obvious thing.

Still haven't made a final decision on the nephew's present, other than a funky hat of some sort. He's 15, almost 6 ft tall, and occasionally needs to be taken down a peg. I took the Wii with us, and he was being way over competitive until his dad took him down in a big way playing cow racing. Heh.

I had started a clapotis for Dan's aunt, but while working on it discovered that I seem to be allergic to alpaca. I had the whole itchy, watery eyes and itchy hands going. So I have some other yarn to use for it, now. And I think I'll make one for my SiL out of some Brooks Farm yarn I have in my stash.

Still not sure what to make for Dad. He's always a gift giving challenge.

I am feeling better, slowly getting back to decent energy levels. Had a sleep study awhile back and I will be getting a CPAP on Tuesday. I hope that helps the levels, too.

Still kicking

And I've actually been knitting up a storm - I'm almost done with the second Clapotis. Knitting's about all I've had the energy to do, to be honest. I did bake 2 pumpkin pies yesterday, and that was more than I should have done, so today is back to watching documentaries and knitting.

Surgery was a week ago. Other than some serious breathing issues when I first woke up after surgery, I've been OK. I guess the anesthesiologist missed the fact that I'm asthmatic - d'oh! There's nothing like swimming up to consciousness feeling like you're choking and can't breathe and having someone yelling at you to take deep breaths. Then having to have the nurse hold the nebulizer do-hicky because I was too weak to do it myself.

But I'm OK now. Some pain, of course, and 4 holes in various places with stitches. I forgot to take out my belly button ring, oops. They did it for me, without breaking the bead, even. Put it in a hazmat bag with my name on it :-D

Mom came up for a few days to help us out - Dan had to go to school on Friday and I wasn't supposed to be alone yet. She did a lot around the house, which I was most appreciative of. Dan and I have muddled through this week given that I do most of the cooking. He's managed to feed us most evenings, and I'm doing a bit, too.

Hopefully I'll be up to taking and posting some knitting-related pictures soon.