one hundred and sixty four.
yes indeedy it’s time to start planning for your 2009 holiday knit list! i dunno about you but for the past couple of weeks while cruising ravelry’s newly added patterns i’ve been eyeing the potential projects not only for me, but for what i might want to knit as christmas gifts this year. one thing i definitely want to do this year is knit each of my nieces and nephews a stocking (so technically that’s five things, hah!).
ideally i’d love it if people came right out and requested hand-knit items. but that’s not usually how it goes, so us knitters are left with the task of choosing the pattern, choosing the yarn, choosing the colour(s), guessing the size, casting on, frogging back, casting on again, scrapping one project for another, and so on and so on and so on. so hey i’m gonna go ahead put it out there: if you’re reading this and you usually get a gift from me, why not drop me a line and help a sister out? just sayin’…
there’s tons of options to choose from! socks, scarves, wraps, shawls, mitts, toques, dishclothes, pillowcases, toys, baby/toddler knits, berets, market bags, shrugs, cowls, legwarmers, slippers – is that enough for you? cause there’s probably way more that i’m forgetting to mention!!
i think my plan for this year will be to just knit away at patterns that i really want to try, use up all kinds of different yarns from my stash and hope that the resulting finished objects are suitable for everyone on my list. that way i’m not pressuring myself to ‘knit such-and-such for so-and-so by xx-date’. makes for more enjoyable knitting, doesn’t it? and if it doesn’t work out that everyone gets something, then i still had fun creating the item and chances are someone will claim it/them.
in the meantime, i really need to finish up my sweater. not that i’ll be wearing it anytime soon, but you know. and tonight? there’s just enough hours left in the day to complete my pair of ‘hospital socks’ (the waving lace pattern from favorite socks).
happy knitting!
flourescent pineapples.
i’ve been a bad blogger.
of course there’s a reason for that. just a little over two weeks ago my dad underwent a pretty major surgery and his seven day hospital stay ended up turning into fourteen. he’s out now so he and mom have escaped to their second home at ‘the lake’.
at the same time, and to make things even more (dis)fun(ctional), mister random and i got a call from our caretaker that a bigger suite was opening up in our complex so we had to scramble to get our applications in. i’m happy to report that the bigger suite is ours (yes!) however this brings us to the (dis)fun(ctional) part – subletting. this past week has been a flurry of faces and bodies poking around our humble little abode, nonstop questions, neverending emails, i’m pretty sure i saw smoke coming out of the telephone handset… let’s just say i’m thankful to not have a job in real estate. too demanding! and some people just suck – seriously. cross your fingers for us that someone gets approved, and fast!
knitting seems to have fallen off the radar lately. while dad was in the hospital i did manage to bang out a sock:
but i seem to have hit a wall with my central park hoodie though. the sleeves are more than halfway done and i just can’t bring myself to finish them off. it’s probably the thought of having to do all that seaming afterwards…*shudder*
had planned on reuniting with my stitch ‘n bitch girls this week, however as you’ve already heard i was tied up playing realtor instead. next week marks the start of the (dreaded) winnipeg fringe theatre festival so who knows when i’ll ever see the light of day again…haha.
viewing time is over for today and mister random’s out playing with his friends tonight so i’ve got the place to myself. maybe i can conjure up some of that lost knitting mojo and finish off my sleeves. or get the leg done on my second sock. or zzzzzzzzz………..
it’s pyjama time folks, ahhh.
