Are those reindeer playing leapfrog?

Hello dear readers,

I have about three projects on the go, as per usual, but when the weather turns wet cold and fallish, I'm often inspiried to cast on a few quickies.  Fortunately Patrick and Chris both asked me for some knitted items which is fairly usual so I pounced. Patrick originally wanted an over the top ugly Christmas sweater, but I told him he'd have to get the wool and it's a bit pricy.  I also pointed out a pattern to him which I thought would be better than ugly Christmas. So this weekend I pulled out some of the lovely bluejeans yarn I got at Kerry Woolen Mills and some white Cornwall wool from my friend Toad's destashing and produced this gem:

Look closely, no those Reindeer aren't playing leap frog.....  I have one on the front and one on the back so that when he rows in next weekend's race everyone can see them.  Fun!

I'm also making some slippers for Chris out of the same yarn from this pattern for those that have Ravelry.  He's very fussy so I hope he likes them, I'll keep you posted.  Felting is a bit of a dark art so they could turn out to be any size......

And yes, we've just completed week 2 of P90X.  Don't want to jinx it, but I'm down 7 lbs from the end of September.......