Sophie Before and After

These photos are poorly exposed, but they show how much Sophie shrunk in the felting process, thanks to the front door for providing scale:

Here is Sophie, slightly underexposed, in natural light. Damn I hate the flash on my little camera. (Scroll down past the weird palm pics to see more about Sophie's felting adventure) 

Sophie is finished! Although I might add a tassle closure, if I can decide how.... 

Weird palm leaf painting from the right ... see how it changes depending on how you look at it? I hated it when I first did it. It grew on me, and I really like it now. 

Weird palm leaf painting from the front... 

Weird palm leaf painting from the left 

More Sophies, and toooooo much of me

Sophie #1 is drying, and I have already started Sophie #2. She will be in Manos Del Uruguay, in a really neat yellow/orange/red/brown handpainted scheme. I haven't decided if I'm going to add some of that sparkly slubby yarn yet.

I looked at the skirt I just ordered, and hoped it wouldn't fit b/c it's FREAKING HUGE. A TENT, I tell you. I almost cried when it fit perfectly. I want to cry, or worse -- I can't believe how enormous I've become in such a short time. Seriously, I can't wrap my brain around it. Bad metaphor. Really bad. I honestly cannot connect what my eyes are seeing with reality here -- I've gained 55+pounds in one year. How the F*&K did that happen????

Look! Sophie made my hand look like a gorilla-man's hand.... (during the felting of Sophie Purse #1, knit in Reynolds Lopi)
 

Sophie is felted and drying!!! Note how furry the Lopi gets when felted. Soon, Sophie will have a shave.... 

Sophie Purse #1 pre-felting, yet another view, but with pooooor exposure. 

Sophie Purse #1 pre-felting 

Sophie Purse #1 pre-felting 

More works in progress....

I've added a Sophie Purse in Lopi to the pile of works in progress....
Now, to do the twisted handles, or beaded handles instead?
And, BAD ME, I didn't felt a swatch first, so watch it fail to felt and just make me cry.
Pictures later. I should probably go to school and do some "work" and figure out how to make a thesis out of the disaster I have going on there. Stupid fancy medical school program that thinks they're so hot for making us do a thesis for a plain old MD.

How many things can I knit at once?

Well, one, technically... but I've got I-don't-know-how-many works in progress at the moment.
Lessee....

• The not-quite-a-wedding-present shawl in blue. (Candy-fx in blue, soft-kid in palest blue, and Sevilla ribbon in silver-white -- using a modification of the Fiesta Gelato and Rayon Boucle tasseled shawl)
• The original effort at the not-quite-a-wedding-present wrap, in red and gold Karabella Gossamer.
• My silly Homespun "pretty knit poncho" from the Lion Brand website.
• An Alien Illusion Scarf of course
• (damn, what's with the F-15-sounding jets over Brookline right now?)
• A raspberry red chenille scarf for Mrs. D to go with her hat, which is too big I think....
• There's more, I know there's more, I just can't think of it right now.
• Oh yes, those damn socks. What can I do with my other fancy sock yarn, since I know now that I can't stand knitting socks?

And let's not talk about how much yarn I bought at the Woolcott & Co. sale last weekend.

Maybe I should do my taxes.

Claudette's Hat from the side 

Green Manos Hat outside 

Top of Green Manos Hat 

Me In Green Manos Hat eyes only 

Claudette's Hat Oblique-Top View