Yes, I do still have alpaca blankets to finish.  And, yes, I am knitting vegetables.  It’s a knitter thing.  I enjoy knitting the blankets, but they are getting cumbersome.  Large and heavy.  Not portable.  At all.  In fact, it is kind of a commitment to sit and work on them because it takes a while to get situated and if you get up for, say, one of those last left-over Christmas cookies, well, you have to settle back in and get all situated again (it is actually a terrific dieting aid..). 

And (o, knitter, know thyself!) these blankets are a lot (a lot a lot a lot!) of mindless knitting:  a row a Knit 1, Slip 1 followed by a row of knitting.  I do not exactly thrive on mindless knitting – though I have been enjoying it more than I expected.  It is meditative and calming.  But I want to think about knitting, too! 

Soooo, I am knitting vegetables (from Hansi Singh’s Amigurumi Knits).  They are a gift for my vegan daughter, Sasha.  She actually requested I knit her some – to make up for not having her blanket done by Christmas Day.

Perhaps you see a flaw in the logic here!  Won’t my knitting vegetables (oh, I made the most adorable peapod yesterday….!) slow down progress on her blanket?  Shouldn’t she know better than to get me distracted by dangling fascinating little veggie patterns in front of my garter-weary eyes?  Yes.  But, hey, I’m not going to argue the point.  Besides, as her mother, I have no one to blame but myself.  Nope.