what's been going on

Well, when I thought everybody was well, I was wrong.  HB's cold stuck around for another week.  Now, finally, everyone in the house is actually well (maybe?).

I cut the bias strips for all the coasters; I'm making them from coiled, fabric-wrapped clothesline like these baskets.  I got 1/2 yard each of 3 fabrics in the same print, different colors.  I made a few coasters in the first color, but when I switched fabrics, I saw I had cut the strips in the wrong direction, so instead of a little swirl of short stripes, I got long, non-swirly stripes going down the length of the rope.  Not pretty.  So I'm putting the wrong-cut ones away for something else and just using the one color to make more coasters.

I spent a little time on them when HB was hanging out with the girl, and I also plopped the girl in her playpen and wheeled it over to the sewing room to work on them one day when I was feeling particularly bored with stack-up-blocks-and-knock-them-over games.

I also pulled out my Retrograde sweater and began the last cable round.  I put it away when F figured out how to climb on the couch on her own a few weeks ago, because I figured she would get into the basket and unravel it.  But now that the yoke's almost done, I can consider it a TV knitting project and maybe I will put more time into it.  Annual Gift Day is going to come faster than I probably realize.