Injury and Updated Shrug

I had my work Christmas Party on Saturday evening.  During this event I slipped on the dance floor where someone had spilled his/her drink and sustained a knitter's worst nightmare - an injury to my wrist!  I was holding my camera in my right hand (thank goodness) so I used my left to brace my fall.  After careful examination I determined it was just strained/sprained and not broken.  However, I was in quite a bit of pain.

I've been resting it and icing it and today it feels much better.  So much, in fact, that after I get dinner prepared I am going to work on some of my projects.  I can't just sit and do nothing!  I have a partially finished scarf that needs to be completed as a Christmas gift and I have a couple "orders" out there that I'd like to fill.

The worst day was Sunday - normally I sit around watching football and am extremely productive with my knitting.  Since it was the day after my accident I decided it best not to even test my abilities.  As this is a knitting blog, I must leave you with at least one piece of a project...

In a previous post I displayed this shrug that I made last year in anticipation of wearing to my work's Christmas Party:

I never did wear the shrug myself because I just wasn't comfortable with how it looked on me.  I passed it along to my sister.  After trying it on she suggested a button to tie the front together.  Concept was good, but with already having a finished piece, how would I create a button hole?  Here's what I came up with:



SO MUCH BETTER!  Both of us received compliments on the piece and just looking at it makes me feel so much better about spending time on it.  I do hope to finish my partial scarf as I have quite a bit to say about doublesided knitting in the blog once it is finished.  Hopefully finishing it will keep me out of the snacks and you'll hear from me again soon!