I’ve just about recovered from the past few days. I have been eating far too much and yet there are still cakey things untouched in the freezer. I’ll be forcing those on anyone I meet for the next few days, I suspect.

But enough about my expanding waistline and on to nicer things. I have pressies! Firstly, Diane popped over on Christmas Eve and she gave me these:

The photo on her blog is much nicer (and you can download the pattern from there as well), and you can’t see just how nicely they fit me and appreciate the snugness and warmness; even warmer than my Selbuvotter mittens. They are made with her own handspun and hand-dyed BFL and Shetland wool. This makes me realise that I am never going to be as clever as her and should just stick with knitting stuff.

Then lovely Kai sent me some PURPLE gloves. The pattern is Knotty Gloves by Julia Mueller (sorry, Ravelry-only link) and they are knitted with soft and very warm Fleece Artist Somoko.

On top of that, I have a skein of her beautiful handspun bamboo yarn. It’s 12 wpi and 167m long, so I’m hoping to get a lovely scarf from it to show it off to the world.

There’s no reason for me *not* to have warm hands now. On Saturday we went down to Brighton for a walk on the beach to blow away the cobwebs and get out of the house and I couldn’t decide which pair to wear. In the end, I took both and wore the gloves in the morning and the mittens in the afternoon.