Well, I finally managed to get some knitting done and made progress on the hotties. What's really neat about the hottie pattern, besides the fact that it is oh so mega-hip, is that it's a great introduction to sweater knitting for beginners. You have to do all the same sort of shaping and seaming, add a collar, and you have to make sure that it will fit (although I expect that the hot water bottle is a fairly forgiving recipient). As it is essentially just a tiny sweater, I am in full finishing avoidance mode. I abandoned the blocked pieces of hottie #1, waiting to muster up the energy to sew them together, and knitted hottie #2 to the same point (bad picture, it's really purple!). It's still yet to be blocked. Oh, and I haven't picked out buttons yet. Okay, I also haven't gotten any hot watter bottles.

Hey, don't worry about finishing those sweaters out there folks, instead go check out the new Rebecca magazine. It's hot!