Looking back #4: Newberry progress and secret progress

[These Newberry award books were read back in December of 2010 when I was working on a secret project that may (or may not) be revealed in 2011.]

In between reading about a young boy during the Civil War in the midwest, a young Indian girl surviving alone on an island off the California coast in 1800's, a young apprentice coppersmith in China during the early 1900's, another young girl skating through NYC in late 1890's, a  fantastical island with a Restaurant Government, an Appalachian pole sitter caught between dreams and reality, and  a mouse family befriended by a wise owl and an amazing community of rats, I played around with some cotton yarn and a Lion Brand pattern. I may (or may not) knit a number of these as gifts.

The beginning of Christmas 2011?