Happy New Year!

Or Almost New Year. :)

I think I had big, soft-focus dreams of doing a whole lot of nothing this week and they turned out to be just that: DREAMS! lol Y'all are keeping me busy with orders this week so work, work, work it is. (Thank you!)

And somehow, the Christmas Knitting keeps going on.........and on, well past the holiday. Partly my fault. I knew we weren't going to be seeing his grandfather until AFTER the holiday so I waited to make the usual dishcloths I do for him.......and waited.......and waited. Cue crazy-ass knitting the day after Xmas and................SCENE!

I did nice sunny yellow/white ones for him and then a couple more using up some scraps hanging around in my kitchen cotton bag for my mother, etc. including this Xmas (strawberry patch maybe?) one. (Doesn't everyone have a bag of kitchen cotton in case of a dishrag emergency? YOU SHOULD. Matter of fact,  I just restocked my 'emergency bag' with a few new skeins from Joann's. BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW when the dishrag apocalypse is going to happen and then who is going to come out on top? ME. THAT'S WHO.)

That plus my mother was all I AM DISAPPOINT because I didn't make her a pair of socks this year so I cast on for a pair the other day and am making that my first knitting project for 2011. (Yes, I'm a few days early but I'm still TOTALLY counting it for 2011!) In her defense, the knitted ribbed ones fit her better than store-bought when her legs swell up because the ones I make can stretch out like crazy when needed. I do see her point but if she wants a whole drawer full of hand-knit socks she's going to have to let me sit her down and teach her how to knit so she can pitch in a little. lol

In the meantime, I'll keep picking out the craziest stripey yarn I have in my stash for her because it amuses me to no end to do so. Heh.  :)

Is it really the weekend already?

Wow. Well THAT was a quick week. :(

My poor blog has been so boring lately but I've been busy busy busy with orders. (Not complaining.) Not much in the way of 'fun' stuff going on around here lately, unless you count a trip to Trader Joe's mid-week as 'fun'. (Which I do because I never get to go there because it's too far away. It's like a food porn store for foodpornaholics. *fans self* It may take me days to fully recover from the experience.) I'll have a giveaway up either tomorrow or Monday to make up for slim picking around here lately. :)

Having said that, I have been able to get some 'gifting knitting' out of the way though. 

An Easy Drop Stitch scarf in these pretty, pretty colors:

(Mooshie was my photo assistant on these, as you can see.)

A quick pair of Fetching mitts.

(Pattern link.)

Over 16,000 people have knit a pair of these on Ravelry. 

Six.teen.Thous.and. 

That's pretty crazy, right? I can't say anything about them that hasn't already been said. Solid pattern. Great for using up a small bit of worsted weight-ish yarn. Mine turned out a 'titch bigger than I would have liked - a smaller needle size would have been better, I think. Duly noted for the next pair. :)

I only have one more thing I want to knit for Xmas, I think? (I never rule out the possibility of a last minute, knitting until 4am and your hands are about to fall off, breaking out the stand fan and prayers for drying yarn, crisis popping up. COULD HAPPEN. There was that ONE crazy year, you know!) So now it's onward to some stitchy gifty goodness!