This holiday weekend was quite the knitting weekend in my house. Luckily noone cared that I just sat in my chair & knit constantly not willing to stop even to get myself a cup of coffee or do anything for anyone else. Of course there was the brief 3 1/2 hour break I took on Saturday to go see HP Goblet of Fire with Tracy, Kalah & SadieJane. The.best.movie.ever.hands.down.thumbs.up!!!
My self imposed deadline for Christmas gifts and sweaters for myself for our trip to Idaho for the holidays is slowly creeping up on me and this weekend was meant to smash my list all to bits! This is my list of completed projects in the past week.
*Black cardigan~ made from 1000 sweaters book using simply soft by Caron
*Gryffindor hat & scarf set
*Debbie Bliss Fair Isle yoke sweater~ okay, I admit it, I have not blocked this yet, or sewn the last few seams together but that will happen today I swear!
I have the hook & eyes all on the black cardigan so it is officially finished!
Now it is just time to get the few remaining Christmas gifts finished. George’s sweater being the big one. I am doing the cycling aran from hello yarn. It’s a fun, simple pattern that I think will get a lot of use this winter. Seeing as how we don’t have too much of a winter here, wool cardigans will suffice as a jacket. One of the fronts is finished, the second front is over half done and the back is about 3″ long. It’s a fast sweater in the yarn I am using, that is why it’s not done. See, I am a procrastinator. I tend to put the easy things aside assuming (I know, it makes an ass-out of u-and-me) that I will have plenty of time at the last minute to finish them up. Well even though I have almost a month to finish it I am feeling a bit cramped for time. That is a good thing. It means instead of starting a new project, which is what I wanted to do on Saturday night, I will finish the cycling aran first. I would love to have sweaters done for the 3 kids too but that just isn’t going to happen so I need to mentally take them off the list of projects to be completed by Christmas.
I missed not having the knitting group last week, I am looking forward to it this week, I am hoping everyone will bring finished projects to show off. I may just send out an email to the snb group for a show off week this Thursday.
Sounds fun!
There are so many finished projects that I haven’t posted pictures of I may just have to break down, take a shower, set up the camera & get them posted! That might have to take a backseat for today due to the above mentioned fact that I did nothing but knit all weekend, I have to get control over the out of control house of mine. Cleaning is #1 today! I will try my hardest to get pictures up tomorrow, patience grasshopper!