socks and sickies

My poor little boy (the bigger one) has a nasty cold and is mighty miserable. Sick times are the only TV times in our house, and even then we have just a couple DVD's to choose from. Still, it distracts him from his misery a little while and gives us a break from entertaining a sick toddler. I spent a lot of the last two days sitting in the rocking chair beside him nursing the baby and knitting. I made this tiny pumpkin he is clutching while rocking there beside him. It is from the newest issue of Living Crafts, which is terrific. I want to make everything in it.

These felted mits? I'm sure we need a family set. And I am pretty sure this hobby horse (made from a wool sock!) is going to be Ari's Christmas present.images from the Living Crafts website

I also finished one sock. Ari is in need of some warm socks for the winter so I pulled out this local sock wool from my wool basket and browsed around for patterns. There is a lot of math in sock knitting! I like the k3p1 ribbing on this one. I have started the second sock, having come across the sock knitting advice to always cast on the next sock as soon as you finish the first to be sure two socks actually get knit. Ari calls this his mermaid sock because of its oceany mermaid colours. He wore just the one for a good while today until I stole it back for measurements. And yes, that is a blue toenail (rather mermaid-ish in colour, no?) he dropped a wooden car on it ages ago now, but still it is blue, poor little mermaid toe.