I found myself dating papers this afternoon and realized that its suddenly the 14th of the month - which means that there are only 10 days left of knitting time for me until the family gift exchange. I also realized that my son’s last day of school before the holidays is the 20th.. which leaves 6 days to knit for anyone school related.. including his fabulous bus driver who has been quite vocal about how she would LOVE a knit scarf. I asked her this morning what her favorite color was so that I could hope to get her a finished scarf.. and I decided on two skeins of Wool Ease from my stash in varigated dark greens and possibly a skein of Simply Soft in black.. but I have no ideas yet for a quick moving pattern with a little oomph to it.
I attempted to set up the knitting machine and crank out a striped scarf on it.. but I got about 40 rows into it when I “missed” a stitch and the whole thing went falling off the machine needles and onto the carpet. I attempted to ‘rehang’ the knitting.. but I botched it up and now its all been frogged. I thought about possibly knitting an Irish Hiking Scarf but I’m not sure that I’ll be able to finish that in 6 days… especially concidering that my knitting time is extremely limited these days. My ‘new life’ and job aren’t exactly travel knitting friendly when I have to bounce in and out of buildings with metal detectors and while I’m usually working on paperwork in the car.
The holiday knitting looks like this :
1. Fuzzy Feet for husband’s sister & cabled hat for her new husband
2. something cute for toddler girl - husbands cousin
3. green scarf for bus driver
4. scarf for new boss
5. spin up yarn & knit scarf for husband’s grandmother
oh yeah.. did I mention that the only thing on this list that was even started was the cabled hat? I think I’m screwed.