Holiday knitting 2008 - yikes!

In the two years since I have begun knitting, I have made a grand total of about three holiday gifts: a hat for Blair, a scarf for Rob and another scarf for my sister Jeanne. Because of the stress they can inevitably create, I made a conscious decision never to make more than three presents for Christmas.

So much for rules...

This year, I'm making six different gifts, double my so-called limit, and luckily two do not have to be made until well into next year. The ones that do have a December 25th deadline are my mother-in-law Terry's blanket, my other sister Cindy's scarf/stole, Blair's scarf and Patsy's mini-shawl. If I get really ambitious, then I also have a scarf for my aunt Edna and a hat for my brother-in-law Gregg.

And then there's all the WIPs I still wanted to finish from summer. So here we go...let's see if I don't absolutely go insane.

Oh, what a feeling!

I LOVE it when I finally complete a project, even if they're are as mundane as scarves and hats. In this case, it's actually a combo scarf and hat and a garden variety scarf. These two projects were begun eons ago (OK, really just a year, but it seemed like eons). One is for me when I wear my red and black ski jacket, hence the color combo. It probably won't work as actual ski wear, since it's wool and alpaca and not microfiber. Plus the length of the scarf could pose a hazard. The other is just a scarf no one in the family really wants to wear. So on my Ravelry notebook, it's called the Scarf to go with Nobody's Hat. Hopefully, somebody will want to wear it.