All of us (OK mostly just me) here at Paper Lotus hope you had a really great holiday season. Did you get lots of great presents? Did you spend time with good friends and family? Did you eat lots of good food?

I did all those things, and more. The “more” consisting mostly of two things: being sick, and knitting. I was sick for the better part of 2 months and therefore lacked much energy or motivation to blog. And the rest of the time, I was knitting.

I was knitting up a storm.

I was knitting in the car.

I was knitting at my Mother-In-Law’s house.

I was knitting on my lunch break.

I was knitting while I had a fever (but I admit, I had to frog the knitting from that time period – I made a lot of mistakes and ended up with a really wonky piece of knitting).

I was knitting while on the phone, while my husband made dinner and did the dishes, and while I was working or sleeping I dreamt about knitting.

What did you spend all my time knitting? You might ask me. Well, several things.

I knit an organic cotton cowl, and I took it to work. On a whim, I gave it to a girl there, because when she tried it on, she looked super cute in it. Then I got orders for 8 more. So, giving away one was definitely worth it.

Here is a picture of that nice girl wearing my cowl I gave to her.

And here are some of the cowls I knit to sell.

Turns out cowls make good holiday gifts. And they are so in right now! These are made with organic cotton, and are super soft. Personally I think I look goofy in a cowl, some people can pull it off better than others.

I almost got an order for 4 more cowls, but instead what this person really wanted was 4 knit headbands with crochet flowers on them. Apparently someone wore one on a tv show and then all teenage girls decided they needed one too. So my friend who is the crochet expert and I came up with a pattern and made 4 headbands that came out like this.

I am working on more cowls and hopefully more headbands to sell.

2010 is going to be the year of the knitting needles. Paper Lotus? Maybe the Woolly Lotus…