Happy Mother's Day from head to toe!

Happy Mother's Day to all knitfolk and bloglanders! It was a good knitting-week (we will not speak of hockey, hockey is now dead to us until the fall), and I have actual Finished Objects - woohoo!

First finished object, though, there is no picture. The shawl for Peter's Mom, which she loved, and which was the perfect colours on her. yeah, no picture. My bad. Trust me, it's pretty on her. Take the colours from the WIP picture and blow it up to the size of Mom's shawl and you got it. So. Onward!

I finished the first chemo cap for the Yarn Forward contest / fundraiser last night, and dropped it off today - but AHA! I remembered to take a picture first! So, here is a (I think) pretty funky and just plain pretty cap, in Eden which is a bamboo yarn, feels like silk and is both warm and really girly. :)

Funny thing about this picture though - that's not a head model the hat is on. It's an upside-down teddy bear, affectionately known as "Football". Football has been with me since I was 13 years old (Christmas gift, IIRC), and has seen me through many difficult times. I thought it appropriate to instill some of his positive karma in the hat before sending it on its way.

Now here, we have two pictures of my right foot. You will notice my foot is wearing a new sock, which was actually not accounted for in the massive WIP listing from last week. But it was in the car and got worked on at the doctor's office and at Tulipfest where I was volunteering today, and then well... I had to finish it. The yarn is Marble, 100% acrylic and mighty nice stuff to work with. As you can see it's self-striping, with very subtle changes, and there's a grey marl running through it too which further softens the colours. These are to be bedsocks for me because my feet get cold at night. Pay no attention to the lumpy bit at the heel, I mucked up the turning a bit but the sock is still super-comfy. The pattern is "Socks in Three Sizes" by Joan Fernbach, which I found on knitting.about.com - though of course I tweaked it a wee bit to custom-fit me.

You know what I notice though? No matter how much weight I have lost, I still have "cankles". *sigh* So be it.

Also well underway is Dad's cardigan-front part 2, about 30 rows to go and it's done. And Mom's poor wee orange sock is coming, but it appears to be at the black hole stage. This too shall pass.

And tomorrow is Monday - and May is now half over! EEEK! Seriously, someone has to slow this calendar down; in three months we'll be coming BACK from our Manitoulin vacation. For which, incidentally, I have grand knitting plans. But more on that later. To quote the great Sherriff Bart, "I always keep my audience riveted!" Or something like that. Happy Mother's Day, everybody!