Christmas is approaching...! I started on the Mrs. Beeton on Tuesday night while watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on ABC using the Frog Tree 100% alpaca that I'd bought. Mmmmmm! Why have I never used alpaca before??? It is so soft and light and...yummy!!! It popped onto my needles so fast, but I had to go to the yarn store again the next day to buy some bigger double-pointed needles that would accommodate the alpaca/silk/nylon blend in a dark cream color that I got to go with the blue and coral Frog Tree. I knit and knit and added beads (this was my first time doing so - fun!) and knit some more, and I was done! Yay! I am so happy to have made this great, soft, luxurious gift for someone! I hope they are enjoyed!!
I also knit up the Knitty Knecklace. SUPER quick project, although somehow I messed up with the gauging and mine turned out to be about 4 inches too long...! Eeek!! I have to figure out a way to fix that or I'll have to redo the whole thing. If there weren't so many other gifts to knit up, I would probably redo, but as it stands I think I'm leaning more towards the creative sewing option - fold in the ends a little bit...make it seem like it's supposed to be the way it is...
I have officially decided to take off Thursday as a knitting day. Of course, the annual lab holiday lunch is scheduled for that day, so I'll have to head in to work in the middle of it all, but that shouldn't be so bad. With any luck, by Thursday I'll have the back of the second potholder knit up, and by the end of Thursday I can hopefully have a coffee-coat and a scarf on and then off the needles!
1 comment:
Awww... The coffee coat is such a cute idea (I had no idea there were so many cute things you could knit)!!!!!!!
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