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In December I decided that since I had eight projects in the works, I wasn't going to allow myself to start anything new until I had scratched some of them off the list. Some got checked off quickly, but others I expended quite a bit of time and energy procrastinating over. One of those projects was the pair of socks I finished knitting on the car ride home. I would share a picture of them with you now, but they're upstairs where Henry is napping and if I went up and got them the creaking of the floorboards would probably wake him up and then I'd spend the next three hours bouncing him on my knee, talking to him through his gorilla, and generally trying to make his life absolutely fantastic and fun until either I collapsed or he fell asleep and I don't want to go there just yet. What I do have a picture of is another project I started off with gusto then put aside for a year. This was one of the few projects Dave would periodically ask about the status of because he was so curious about the end result. Last night, he finally got to see it in all its finished, felted glory:

I wish I had taken a "before" shot so you could see how large it was before felting. It was huge. Perhaps needless to say, I really dig it. I'm thinking about what kind of eyes to add. I could needle felt some black wool on. or I could sew some buttons on. Maybe I could glue googly eyes on. Blue ones. Or orange ones. That would be cool. Anyway, Dave was suitably impressed, then asked the million dollar question, "What are we going to do with it?" I told him that it's going on the fireplace mantle. Duh.