It's so very rare for us Central Texans to have a full-on snow day but today we do! We all knew to expect around an inch of snow last night (yes, a trivial amount, I know) so I got up super early to check and see if it snowed! Then I turned on the news to check the latest weather and traffic. I had already planned on staying home today if it snowed because I knew the roads would be a wreck with people who don't know how to drive in the snow and the news confirmed it for me. At 6:30 AM, before rush hour really started OR the sun was up, there were already 118 traffic incidents on the Austin roadways. Several of them were rollover accidents. So I sent an email to my boss, made a pot of coffee, and worked on sewing in the ends of this:
This is the Cowboys scarf I've been working on for my Aunt Patty since BEFORE Thanksgiving. I'm so terrible at finishing projects, but as she will be in town this weekend, I had a nice firm deadline to meet and I'm proud to say that I've met it (almost) with no tears. The scarf is currently drying on the ironing board. All I have left is to sew up a little seam from where I started working it flat and then switched to the round and it will be 100% finished!
Next up: Fingerless mits for me based on a very simple pattern I found on Ravelry. I bought two skeins of Canopy fingering weight yarn in a gorgeous heathery blue for a Christmas gift idea I had. The idea didn't pan out, but this yarn is just dying to be something for yours truly.
Note: In the photo, that crunchy stuff you see the yarn sitting on is snow!
