Finished my needle felted bear last night. Didn't get a chance to take a picture until today. I really wish we had a decent camera. The one one DH's phone just doesn't do him justice.

He was surprisingly simple to make. Took me about two hours, total. I started with the instructions in the tutorial at Owning Alpaca and then altered him based on the Bumble Bear at Living Felt.

Gave him to DH for an early V-day present.

Finished knitting my Knucks today. They work up very fast on size 4 needles. About six hours invested in total, including embellishment. The pink is leftover homespun merino/silk blend that I've had batting around for ages. The reddish embroidery is the result of one of my Navajo Plying experiments, of unknown wooly content, and the purple is ancient unlabled acrylic fuzzy stuff from the my closet floor.

Halfway through stitching the letter U, I realized the witticism "Drugs Help" has nine letters, rather than eight, as I'd originally believed. Apparently, the drugs aren't helping as much as I'd hoped. Glad I wasn't in the middle of getting my knuckles tattooed for real!

I ran the embroidery across the palms as well which adds significantly to the warmth.



These are so simple and quick, I may bang out another pair tonight. Or I may just haul my sleepy frauenhinter off to bed.