Last year I felt like my knitting was very unproductive. Between being slammed at work, having a daughter in musicals, and dyeing yarn, I didn't spend much time with the needles.

There's nothing like holiday deadline knitting to improve one's productivity - and a few long plane flights. 

Last night I finally finished the Broken Cable Rib socks, after re-doing the toes.  It usually doesn't take me 4 months to get a pair of socks done - and I have no idea really why these took so long!  But I am very happy with them.  The yarn is Creatively Dyed's Ocean, which is a blend of superwash wool and seasilk.  Seasilk, for those of you who don't worship fiber, is a rayon derived from seaweed.  The socks are pretty thick because I knit them on size 1 needles. 

    Ravelry details here.

My end-of-2008-rush included...

A Seaman's Cap for DH, knit from Toots LeBlanc yarn.  Ravelry details here.

 

Bramble Fingerless Mitts for K's teacher, knit in Classic Elite Maya.  Ravelry details here.

 

A potato chip scarf in Noro Kochoran, for CJ's teacher. 
 

And the Backyard Leaves scarf from Interweave's Scarf Style, knit in Classic Elite Charmed. The scarf is gorgeous, and I'm quite proud of it.  And I gave it to CJ's other teacher!   Ravelry details here.

 

In other news, Forrest the Cat got into a fight, and had to have his leg shaved, examined, and get some antibiotics.  He's fine now but his leg still isn't fully hairy!

 

And, I've been living on our Satsuma Mandarins, now ripe on our tree, which is on a pot on our deck!