It's been a week and half....

Since my surgery and I am doing well.  Things are progressing nicely.  Stitches are out and Physical Therapy starts this Thursday. :)  The old pain is still not there!!! Just a little sore...except when I overdo and then it's ALOT sore. ;)

So, what does one do when they are couch bound?  Well, I watched movie after movie that I have wanted to see or already had seen but Love.  Miss Marple, Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse, and Emma.  I of course watched several of the murder mystery series.  A total of 20 different movies. lol

I also did knit, of course. ;)  I mentioned earlier the brown bag and mittens I was going to knit.  Well, besides those I knit two pairs of fingerless mitts, two cowls, and worked on my sweater I started a couple months ago.  I also finished my cable purse.  I don't know why I put off sewing it together. It took only an hour to complete it. lol  I also finished a stole that I have been knitting on since February.  Here are pictures of all I worked on except the cowls and fingerless mitts.  I did not have my camera handy before I gave them to my friend that I made them for.  I still need to felt the Brown Bag and block the stole. :)
Enjoy!

This is the beginnings of a simple sweater. 

Surgery...check!

Well it has been two days since surgery and I am doing pretty good. :)

Besides going stir crazy from being waited on and sitting, sitting, sitting and sitting, I am doing good.

The pain is very minimal but I do have meds in me. ;)  So forgive me if this post is confusing. ;)

I have 3 more days of not walking!!!  I can walk to go to the ladies room, change seats but other than that very little movement. Currently I am using crutches to remind my self not to go crazy when I do walk.  Yesterday I did need them for stability.  I was still a little dizzy.  Well, I am still dizzy. The meds make me that way, but you probably figured that out. ;)

I started knitting late in the day yesterday and that seemed to help with the boredum and anxiousness from just sitting.  I picked up a WIP that had been hibernating since March of 2008.  It is a felted bag, I call it The Bag. I love doing felted bags and started this one with no one in particular in mind.  I just thought the colors would be pretty in a felted bag. :)  I should finish it today and then I will start on my white mittens. :)  Here is a picture I took of the bag last year when I started it...

Originally I was going to use brown throughout the bag but decided it needed more black.  I am carrying two strands of yarn, one being Chestnut Brown and one being Black.  Both Patons Classic Wool.  Patons is great for felting.

Until next time. :)

Happy New Year!!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's Celebrations!

We have been busy with visiting family and staying warm.  It snowed here for a couple of days and then the warmth came and melted it all away.  :)  Now the cold has returned but without the snow.  I am hoping that the snow stays away until next week since I am having my arthroscopic surgery this week and I do NOT want to reschedule because of bad weather.  I am soooooo ready to have this done and on the road to recovery. :)

I have been getting things ready for being laid up for a few days.  I plan on renting from the library some Poirot movies.  I was hoping Santa would bring me the new Miss Marple Series from this summer with Julia McKenzie playing Miss Marple. But instead I received something better.  A wonderful piece of jewelry. :)

I am also getting knitting ready.  I plan on knitting some white mittens to match my new coat.  Yes, I said white.  Call me crazy but I can not find any brown or pink yarn to match the those colors in my coat so I went with white.  I need to come up with some other projects in case I can't concentrate enough to work with double points. :)  I will be using the pattern from Knitting Pure & Simple.

Many blessings to you and yours in 2010!  :)