So this is what!

Updates on the last post. Keep in mind that the in progress pictures in the last post were mostly taken last weekend. I knit a lot, and I knit pretty fast, but I ain't a knitting superhero.

First up, the Anastasia socks. I did mention in the last post that I finished the first one at the Guild meeting on Monday. I *almost* finished it, anyway. All that remained was the cast off, so I finally sat down and figured out a sewn cast off.

I cast on the second one yesterday, and I've worked on it pretty exclusively since then, and I've just finished the heel. I don't usually work that hard on socks, but the mood was with me today!

The reason I've had time to work on the socks is because I stayed up very late on Wednesday night, and i finished the hedgehog! Well, the knitting part, anyway.

Here's how he looked pre-felting.

Today he took a nice hot spa in the washing machine. I didn't think to measure him before I felted him, but he shrank quite a lot.
Here's how he looks right now.

Isn't he cute? He's currently firmly stuffed with plastic bags. The weather here is cold and grey, so I don't know how long he'll take to dry. I almost want to cast on another straight away!

But I shan't because there are bunches of other things I want to cast on, which is what's helping me zoom through the current projects.

My final work in progress is Em's Deep Rib Jumper. The back is done, the sleeves begun.

Maybe I should stick to sweaters for Emily knit in nice thick yarn! Zoom, zoom, zoom!