knitting is a hereditary disease

The Home Stretch

Posted on 12/18/2007 by Andrea | Comments (2)
Filed under : Knitting

One week till Christmas.

I have one finished project and four projects at 95% in my Ravelry Projects. That means four Christmas gifts that just need finishing. One doesn't need to be done till a little after Christmas, so that one will be done last. There's also another project that just needs finishing, which I never put into Ravelry because I started it so very long ago. What was I thinking, knitting all these Christmas gifts?

And what do I do? I go starting another Christmas knit, rather than finishing off any of the ones that are almost done.

This is a cabled mitten I'm in the process of inventing. My coworker has a red scarf with really wide cables, and I wanted to make mittens that would go well with it. I couldn't find a pattern that was quite right, so I just gave it a try last night. So far, so good. I did all of this in about 3 hours, so I should have no problem getting this done by Friday, now that I've gotten the pattern figured out.

I'm using Patons Classic Wool Merino, which is a yarn I bought from Michael's. I've become sort of a yarn snob and haven't bought yarn from there in a while, but I know my coworker isn't a yarn connoisseur, so I felt safe in going with a more affordable yarn. And I'm actually pleasantly surprised at the quality of this yarn. I will probably use this yarn again in the future for projects like these.

If you don't see me around for a while, it's because I'm trying desperately to finish all of these knitting projects in time!