I'm going to start a new trend... I just don't have the patience to deal with this thumb anymore!  I have made minimal progress on my knitting lately, but I am slowly but surely plugging through my first of 6 Christmas items.  The New Year is really the big holiday here... who's going to care if their luxurious hand-knit gifts from the nicest American in town are handed over a little late?

(Notice my new tablecloth?  It has totally changed my quality of life!  Slowly but surely my apartment is becoming more "me."  Once I make the blowout order from allposters.com with my neighbor, then things are REALLY going to take off!)