I've been knitting again.  I used to knit a lot, but kind of neglected it in the past few months.  Recovering from surgery has given me a chance to pick up my needles again, and I've been knitting up a storm.  This past week I've completed one shawl (which turned out beautifully) and have started 2 others (both for people I know, neither of whom know what I'm knitting for them - I want this to be a surprise) and I'm getting yarn today to make the kids winter hats and matching scarves (and I might tackle gloves this year as well).

I'm also going to get yarn to make this little beauty:

That's a faux fur coonskin cap.  Our Jake has been asking for one for ages, and when I found this pattern online and showed it to him he immediately asked me if I could knit it for him.  The pattern isn't too terribly hard; it's well within my skill level...but I've never knitted with fun fur before.  I've heard that it's devilishly slippery, which should make for some interesting times trying to work with it.  If it turns out nicely, I might just make myself one.  I have a thing for funky hats...I have one that's supposed to look like a cat (complete with ears), an orange stripey one that's supposed to look like Tigger, but my favorite is one that has a long tail hanging off the back with red and blue stuffed 'spikes' all over it.  My husband doesn't like me to wear that one in public (can't imagine why lol) so our son has inherited it:

I'm sure I don't know why D doesn't like to to wear that one outside of the house.....

So, I'm off to the craft store this afternoon, and hopefully Jake will be sporting a coonskin cap next week!