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I have a big ol' post backlog to work through over break for this part of the site, but the fact that I will actually be at home during daylight hours ought to make it much easier to photograph the neglected projects.

In the meantime, I already have plenty of baking projects lined up for next week, but I am so, so tempted to make some jar cakes.

I stopped by the yarn store this afternoon to pick up a skein of Jawoll to use for the heels and toes of Pete's next pair of socks. (I keep getting frustrated at his needing to stay at the lab until all kinds of odd hours, because it means that his feet aren't available for me to fit the socks-in-progress on. But it's all part of my "get him to pay me to knit with nice yarn" plan, so I'm not too terribly disgruntled.) Anyway, I just noticed that the small print on the skein reads: "USE DETERGENT FOR FINE WASH WITHOUT SOFTENER!" And, after staring at it intermittently for the past ten minutes, I still have no clue what that means. As long as the German instructions above it don't contain the word "ACHTUNG!" -- probably the only German I know -- I figure it'll be OK.

In happier news, I also just impulse-bought a copy of Selbuvotter from KnitPicks while picking up more needle tips. I've seen pictures of some completed projects from it on Ravelry, and it looks drool-inducing. Never enough mittens, I say.