That Friday Feeling

This week has, for various reasons which shall for now remain unspoken, been a rather stressful and hectic one.  The ultimate effect of that on my usual blog topics has been a near-disastrous lack of progress on anything at all. I missed WIP Wednesday and the Yarn Along, even though I have started reading a rather exciting new book and wanted to share.

I do have finished objects to show off, however they are all gifts which have not yet been given, so for now, the ta-da looks like this:

I will post more details when I am able. I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise for the recipients.

I now have two projects sitting on the naughty step - I still haven't fixed the snapped yarn in Forest Lace, and I discovered a mistake in my Hypernova that requires frogging back a few rows. I need to be more chilled out to tackle those problems!

See the hole that is in the wrong place, and imagine my tears of frustration
when I discovered the mistake on the way into work on Monday

I have made some progress on the Poncho; my tally of circles now stands at 34 and reaching my target of 120 doesn't seem quite so daunting now.

While I have plenty grey and dark brown remaining,
I will need to get more of the beige soon.

What I really need to get done is my gloves, otherwise I won't get them finished in time for the 18th November. They don't look much different to last weekend, though.

Unfortunately, I made a purchase today which is going to distract me from knitting my gloves this weekend. You recall my musings on creating my own advent calendar this year? Well, I was out scouring shops for my swap package and found these:

Tiny craft clothes pegs! With numbers attached in cute red hearts!

They were only a pound! Bargain. Now I need to decide how to arrange them and what to hang from them!