It looks like I have a bit of catching up to do here on the blog. My last post was before Thanksgiving when I was in Texas for the East Texas Fiber Festival. After I returned home it was full on Thanksgiving cooking and baking time. We had a nice day with all of the local family for dinner.
Festival travels are over until March so I have been using my time to refresh. I have been doing more cooking and baking. Christmas preparations are underway too. I have all the shopping done but I haven’t started package wrapping yet. I am still waiting for a few deliveries so it can all get done at once. Oh, and I am knitting a few gifts which I am pretty sure are doable in time.
The red hat, which will also have a pair of fingerless mitts to go with, is Hot Waffles by Anne Hanson. The blue will be fingerless gloves in Classic Merino Superwash Sport Sapphire. I am following the pattern in Ann Budd’s Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns.
This project wasn’t really a Christmas gift. Elijah had a old Santa hat from somewhere that was looking very worn out. He likes to wear it this time of year though so I offered to have a try at knitting a replacement. I took the measurements from the one we had and made it to match those. He said it wanted it fit loose.
I made it using some of my Classic Merino Superwash Sport in Garnet. The white was some fingering weight baby wool from stash.
With all the Christmas knitting that I have been doing, I haven’t been working on my blanket much this last week. Some progress has happened though since my last post so I’ll put up a picture just for fun.
If I don’t get another post done before the holidays, Merry Christmas!!