Cheating

I've been cheating on my Christmas knitting. And I don't fell bad about it at all. I probably should. But I have run out of yarn for one thing (I plan on getting that skein of yarn this evening). And I have until New Year's to finish the other thing. And starting next week, I am on vacation so I'll have plenty of time to sit and knit. And there isn't even much left of it, just 5 more repeats then a toe.

But really if you had a pattern for this snowman, wouldn't you want to make an entire army of them. It is less than 2 inches tall. And it takes me a total of about 2 hours to make one. One hour for the body. Half an hour for the scarf and then maybe another half an hour for all the finishing. So worth it. I put a little loop on the top of its head so it would make an awesome ornament.

And apparently we are preparing to get a large snowstorm coming through here. It is probably a good idea I started these. And yes, I know what they were inspired by. And I don't care, they are cute. I decided it was silly that as a knitter I had a pair of fingerless gloves, but nothing that covered all of my hand. My fingertips have been getting very cold in the morning. As I am not yet brave enough to make these, I went for mittens in a chunky yarn. I have the first one done and plan to have the second done before I have to venture out into the snow tomorrow.

And because you can never have too much adorable dog. Here is mine at her most pathetic. Falling asleep in Zach's arms. Awwww... melty puppy.

Christmas time

Every time I go to make this post, I finish something and decide I need to take a picture of it or I just get distracted. And now that I feel I've caught up on pictures I realize I probably can't post them since most of them are Christmas presents.

And speaking of Christmas presents, from the list on my last post, I only have items 1, 2 and 5 left. Well, I've had to scrap one of the pairs of slippers and will be making armwarmers instead. So only 4 things left to make and just a handful of things left to buy. Yay! And I've been so confident in my crafting abilities that I've even added some things to my list. I didn't mention them above because they are already done. I made a hat and a wookie. I'm so ready for Christmas I've actually got the tree up and have presents wrapped. I think the snow we had over the weekend really helped me get in the mood. And the fact that I've found the Christmas Music radio station.

I was actually very productive this weekend. In addition to going to the Lion's Club Arts and Craft fair (which was fun, but much smaller than last year) I finally put all of my craft stuff in the spare bedroom that is currently being used as my closet. It was inspired by the fact that the corner of the living room where all my yarn resided is pretty much the only good place to put the tree. So all of that went upstairs. And I figured I might as well go through the stuff in the basement and take that upstairs as well. Now it is all in one place. I was able to clear out some of the big drawers that were down in the basement to spread out my yarn a bit. And I was even able to put all of my fiber in the drawers too. Well, most of it. The prepared stuff. Anything destined for the carder is still in a tote, but it is a small tote. I just need to get a table and a chair so I can actually work up there.