Crafting updates

My neckwarmer got finished this week and is ready to try out. It was too hot last night but I'm hopeful tonite is the time. It's filled with seed corn that you had to pretreat by heating in the microwave and then sifting through to clean. The corn heats up like a dream though. Now I need to clean the microwave before using it to heat up this gorgeous neck warmer.

Yesterday I tackled an orphan project. I finished the main stitching for my sister's mother-in-law. Now it just needs the dates and initials done and it's done and back to her for framing. It was good to get this project to the top of the pile and worked on. This one has a deadline for the fall.

My socks for soldiers are doing well. I received my 00 and 000 lace pins in the mail and got the stitches off the bendy aluminum needles and on to the new stiff steel ones. One sock is ready for the next ball of yarn to be added and the other needs an inch or two of knitting prior to the heel. I'm so glad the needles came as it will make it easier to get these worked on. I'm not working on them over the weekend as other projects cry out for equal crafting time.