Saturday, December 10, 2011

Flyin' By

How the heck did we get to December already?! That's what I want to know!  It's extremely difficult for me to believe that it's just over two weeks until Christmas!
Thankfully most of my shopping is done, I just need to get something for my dad, and wrap things for everyone else!  Go me!  I planned ahead this year!

As for knitting, I've pared down my original list.  The nieces will get no knitting this year, due to a technicality in finding an appropriate pattern for Girly.  Bro-in-law's scarf has now become Pepper's scarf, and I'm chugging away on Salt's scarf.  It will definitely be long enough with the amount of yarn I have left, and that makes me happy (especially after I ran out of yarn for Chicka's scarf!)


I had to take the picture in Instagram and use a fancy filter to get that color to come out remotely true.  It's still such a lovely yarn, I don't think I could get tired of it.  I still get gasps at Knitter's Anonymous on Wednesday nights, and usually at least one person comes by to pet it.  As you can see by the picture it's really long!  I'm so happy (and more realistically, relieved) that I had enough yarn.  My own mother was giving me a hard time because she didn't think I would have enough.  Boo-ya Mom!  Take that!

I'm currently in Carmel, we're at the gallery.  I'm knitting in the office (and catching up on my podcasts--knitting of course) and I'm hoping to have this critter pretty well done by the time we leave here at 5pm (I've got two hours....can I make it?!)  I mention where I'm at because I actually need another skein of this Malabrigo wonder!  Salt put in an extra request to have a head band (a la our other friend Giggles'), made out of the same yarn as her mitts (which yes, I finally did finish and sewed the buttons on!).  So I found a LYS in Monterey that sells Malabrigo yarns and plan to hit it up before we leave.

I will have a post soon showing all the delicious food we had at Thanksgiving.  I've been knitting my fingers to the bone lately so I haven't gotten around to writing that up.

Until next update, and hopefully with Salt's scarf and head band finished!

Ta-ta!

Edited 12/11

So guess who finished Salt's scarf before she left Carmel.....I'll wait while you think.....*whistles*

You're right!!  Me!!!  Plus I got another ball of Malabrigo in the same color way and have 10 inches of a headband on the needles!  Woot for progress!!