Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Mass Holiday Confusion

Christmas Gifty #4 is nearly done, which is good, because 1) it's nearly Christmas, and 2) my brain keeps finding other things it wants to knit. "Ooh! Check that out!" it squeals. "Finish up those Christmas Gifties so you can knit that!" It now has a list of about 14 items that I have to knit as soon as I am done with Gifty #5 (which is smallish, so I'm not worried about finishing on time. Yet).

The aforementioned Frankenmitts are on this list, as are the Lucky K8 Fingerless Mitts, and Charlotte A. Cavatica (most excellent scarf ever), and a thing that I saw on yesterday's episode of "Knitty Gritty." They didn't actually make it on the episode, they just had one there and talked about it for maybe eight seconds, but I tell you I fell in love. It was a mini Christmas tree knit with Fun Fur. Seriously! They had a pink one and a green one, but mine is going to be white, because I adore those white 60's-style Christmas trees. El Fuego does not love them, so I don't stand a chance of having a full-size one, but by cracky I'm going to have a cute little tabletop version! I'll have to string some blue beads for a garland, and work up some teetiny ornaments, and don't you love how people just lose their minds in the last four weeks before this holiday? I should be knitting up the last two gifties, and shopping for my kids' gifts, and just generally pulling things together, but instead I am obsessively planning to knit a little Fun Fur tree.


The One-Row Scarf is no more, however. This is embarrassing, because just a few days ago I announced that I loved it, but as of last night I didn't feel that way anymore, and had to move on. I feel like some kind of spoiled child monarch: It displeased me, so I took it apart, and the Tapestry is now becoming a Cabled Gaiter from "One Skein." (I love this book, by the way, and cannot recommend it highly enough.)

I was about to say that there's no excuse for starting a new project this close to December, but yes there is. See "spoiled child monarch." Now I must go see if I can get my inner foot-stamping princess back to work on Gifty #4!

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