That was fast.

Fetching, aren't they? I finished the fingerless gloves over the weekend and I love the way they turned out. I also learned a new skill: putting in waste yarn to create live stitches to get a thumb in there. It was easy, not frightening at all. Do not stop, do not pass Go, head straight for your LYS and get one skein (at least 96 yards, and that's cutting it close) of something you love, something gourmet, and take a spin at making these gloves. I can't get over the beauty of this yarn. Sorry about the out of focus close up, but you can still get an idea of the colors and how they work together. I have one ball minus two yards left in the stash for something else, and to study so I can try to spin something similar up someday.
When it gets cold in the office (sometimes the air conditioning gets agressive) instead of warming my hands in my armpits, I can just slip these beauties on and keep on keepin' on.

In other crafting news, I didn't finish the nutcracker ornament... I can't find it. It must be tucked into something I toted down to my workshop last week but it was out of sight out of mind until this morning. But I did make my workshop curtains.

A few months ago, I bought two yards of Mary Englebreit fabric to make little curtains for the tiny windows in my basement workshop. Each set required one yard of 45" wide fabric -- I measured! So this weekend I cut the fabric, hemmed it, sewed in the casing at the top, and it was not until I put them up that I discovered that the fabric was 36" wide. Each curtain, meant to cover one window, covered it all right, but each curtain was stretched out flat. No appealing folds and drapes. No nice pouffy-ness, unless you take both curtains and put them on the same window. So I still have to make a curtain for my workshop... but even as they are, the new curtains make the space look neater.

But oh, that gripes my backside.

Well, at least one FO worked out nicely. Now, where's that nutcracker?