I finished the first of my mom's Christmas gloves this weekend:




I'll give in to the obvious pun and say, "Glove your mother."

I don't know how well it shows on the picture, but the Scintillante has a very subtle sparkly effect - which is very pretty and makes the gloves look quite dressy. (It has a little thread of flat nylon, sort of like colorless tinsel, running through the yarn).

I also picked up the quilted Snowman quilt and began applying the binding. Here's a detail:



The one drawback to the machine quilting is that it's a bit stiffer than handquilting is. But otherwise, I like it, and I'm seriously considering taking a lapsized quilt I have done down to her for her to do for me.

And finally, I don't do a whole lot of Hallowe'en decorating, but I do put out a few appropriate "critters." (I don't really think of them as monsters; they are more FRIENDLY critters than monsters.)





From left to right: Figbert, a monster made from a scaled-down version of a pattern in Sheila McGraw's "Soft Toys to Sew"; Trilby (a commercially made critter; I assume from the name and the fluffy eyelashes that Trilby is female); Oberon the dragon (Oberon has been with me a long, long time. I made him at about 10 or 11 after reading "The Reluctant Dragon," the one with the E.H. Shepard illustrations. He looks much like Shepard's vision of the Dragon); and finally, Bottom, so named because he has a donkey's head. I made him after looking at some (I think it was) Charlene Kinsey critters and thinking "it would be fun to make a made-up animal, just a fun critter that doesn't belong to any particular species). It's interesting to realize that two of the four critters are named from "Midsummer Night's Dream" (Oberon was not named Oberon from the start; at first he was just Dragon until I decided he needed a grander name). And of course, Trilby could be named after the du Maurier novel.