So I figured I’d do a holiday update. My holiday knitting was umm zero so that was nice. It’s not that I have a problem with hand knits as gifts so much that the deadline thing means I’d never knit anything but gifts, and that would be NO fun. However I am taking the NO GIFT CARD pledge for next year. Christmas or hell even giftmas/fill in your choice of holiday gift giving occasion should be about more than exchanging gift cards. Anyway! I have pics and I know thats what we all want to see so without further blathering…
1. Improved Spinning
2. A finished Single Sock…Charade knit in Shibui
I learned that I think an inch of ribbing at the top is more than enough so I came *this* close to ripping but decided not to since no one but me will see that sock top. I’m half way through the foot of the 2nd sock now. I should have it finished in time. Thermal has a finished sleeve so I do have a slight chance of finishing it by the time real life has to resume (jan 6th). I hope you got lots of phat loot and had a good holiday.
Where have you gone, my dear?
The Charade sock is gorgeous; looks like it didn’t pool horribly like some of the other “semi-solid” Shibui I’ve seen knitted up.
I totally agree with you on the gift card thing, although this past Christmas was absolutely impossible to shop for my boyfriend’s brother as all he really wanted was to save up money for a laptop. (And my boyfriend and I didn’t want to make him think perhaps his parents had gotten him a laptop if we got him a laptop case.) So it was a gift card, just a sliver more personal than handing him cash.