It is decided

Everything I give for Christmas this year I want to be hand made (at least for the females in my life). Either by myself or someone else. 3 awesome resources – my knitting needles & my hands, my sewing machine, & Etsy! I want to do all my Christmas shopping right NOW!

Mittens!

It is officially mitten weather here (40 on the way to work today), so this post comes at the perfect time! I held off on posting these until the recipient had been given them. I made them for Lauren’s birthday.

The buttons don’t seem to be holding as well as I’d like, and depending on how she feels, I may end up sewing the cuffs closed.

I didn’t count my rows on the hands, so one ended up slightly longer than the other, but it’s really not noticeable.

These came out so nice and soft that now I really need to make myself a pair!

Fernfrost Shawl

I intend to make this for tbf’s mom for Christmas. I think it’s so pretty and I picked up this perfect periwinkle color. I think it is light enough that it will be able to function really nicely almost as a neutral. I think with black it could almost look like a grey. Apparently periwinkle is her favorite color too. I’m excited to get this on my needles – I feel like I suddenly have so much knitting to do!

Booties for Evan

I finished these a few weeks ago, but never posted a picture. Here are the booties I made for my old bosses son. I love them!

Allison Sweeney Biggest Loser Hat

Saw this hat on The Biggest Loser Tuesday night and I LOVE it. I want to make it…and I think I know what yarn I will use. We’ll see if I can replicate it.

What I did this weekend:

I finished a pair of mittens for a mitten exchange I participated in:

In return I was given these:

I also finished a hat I was making:

Christmas gifts

For Christmas I only made 3 knitted gifts since most everyone I give presesnts to live in the south and don’t really need much of what I made.  First, I made my roommate some fingerless gloves she’d mentioned once that she liked in a yarn I’d seen her admiring.

Then I made a scarf that was originally meant for me, but the dye lot of the yarn wasn’t the same as what I had previously seen and not what I wanted.  A girl I work with saw me working on it and really liked it, so I decided to give it to her.

Finally, I made tbf a hat earlier in the fall for when it got cold and intended to make a scarf to match.  I didn’t get around to it until Christmas time, so viola! Christmas present!

My weekend

Friday: Dinner with tbf and his family

Saturday: Watched Tech beat A&M!  Went to Central Park and took pictures of fall coming!

Then I went to Hill Country to watch Texas maintain their #1 spot in the BCS.  FUN. TIMES.

Sunday: Mass at St. Patrick’s at 10:15 am.  It was PACKED and all the tourists hung around after to take pics of the Cardinal who performs that mass.  I’d never gone to it before, I wonder if it’s always that way.  Saw a pidgeon in the subway on the platform on the way home.  I felt really bad for it because there’s no food down there for it and it’s likely to get hit by a train.  *frown*  At home I cleaned and baked, then hung out with some girl friends and finished mom’s scarf I’ve been working on.  I thought I might like it better finished, but I don’t.  I like the pattern, but I just totally hate the yarn.

What else I did this last weekend:

My roommate’s birthday is today.  Well, now it’s today because it’s after midnight.  I recently helped her learn to knit and she made herself a scarf.  She mentioned wanting to make a hat to match it, but I don’t foresee her doing it anytime soon, so while in LA I made her this:

What I did this weekend:

 

Made for a neckwarmer exchange a knitting group I’m part of is having.  I’m mid-another project, but figured I should get this done and it only took me a few hours.  Good times.  Knitting and football.  I’m glad fall is back.