Bichons In Berry Sauce

Over Thanksgiving, I flew from NY to Phoenix, drove from Phoenix to San Francisco (and back), and flew back to NY. A whole lot of travelling means a whole lot of knitting time. sorta. Abby came with me, and she doesn't like it when flight attendants tell her she has to be completely zipped up in her carrier and under the seat in front of her mother. Most of my flights were spent attending to my needy little bichon.

She does great in cars though, she thinks car time=nap time, so we were all set for the 12 hour car rides. I worked on my Demi sleeve and started the Menorah Pillow from Handknit Holidays. This will be my mom's Christmas present, so the Demi has been put aside for a while (sorry D, but I'll be picking it up again probably when you and squid are finishing). Wait, you're saying, why would someone give their mother a menorah pillow for Christmas? Well, when we were little, my mom would always put those Christmas bulb candles in the windows, and we'd always say, "Mom, we're not Jewish!". She'd explain it to us over and over again that they weren't menorahs, but we didn't get it. Now that we're grown-up kids, we say the same thing, but mostly to agitate her. So this year, she's getting a Jewish present to display on her couch, which will complement the menorahs in the windows.

I think it's turning out really nicely. I messed up the chart a little bit where the second two candles come off the base, but I don't think you can tell that much. The knitting went quickly, and the chart was fairly easy to follow once I got the hang of it. I got all the way through the front of the chart, so now it's just mindless double-moss stitch to be done for the back. Perfect for movie watching and coffee drinking at nite.