Christmas

A Non-Knitterly Christmas?

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | FO's, Field Trip, Stitches, blah blah blah | 4 Comments

I can’t say this Christmas was about the knitting. I did make some sort of promise to myself at some point that I wouldn’t be knitting any Christmas gifts. Just put a cute little face in front of me asking nicely and I turn into a puddle of goo and will agree to anything.

How can you say "no" to this?

So the kids loved their hats….but why not? They picked everything out, down to the style and mommy whipped them right up. They were even done *before* Christmas! Holy crap, I made a deadline! Goooooooo ME!

So…I thought I was a pretty good girl this year…

I didn’t get any yarn…..

No needles……

No notions…..

No fiber-y batts of fluffy goodness….

But I did get an interesting present this year…

Huh?

A Snuggie? What?! Say it…..I know I did. WTF, right? Everyone I know is aware that I am ready to lead the charge in the “Anti-Snuggie” campaign. I mean, not only does it scream “I’m ready for the Kool-Aid now”…it isn’t made of natural stuff. I mean, this thing is quite literally, plastic. What?! No wool? No Alpaca? Not even cotton? ::faints::

So I sliced open the box and looked inside….

Awwwwww...

I got money for Stitches West in February. Yay!!!

Oh, and I got the Snuggie too. ::rolls eyes::

Tags: Christmas, FO's, gifties, hats

Holiday crazies…

Sunday, December 14th, 2008 | blah blah blah, fiber, spinning | No Comments

There I go again, slacking on the blog. I have good reason though. I had one in the queue, and just couldn’t get around to finishing it. I have had in-laws in town, the whole family fot sick with a cold, and all while all types of holiday events were happening. It’s been nuts! We finally got our tree up yesterday and right now it is only covered in lights. I finally ordered our Christmas cards and who knows when those will arrive. Oh wait, I need to send them out too? All 100 of them!?! The kids have a Holiday show Thursday night….I signed up for a bake-off….EEK!

It is times like these that make me glad I decided to just say no to holiday knitting. At least I am not in a rush to get any presents made. I do have a few projects I want to get done though. I had signed up for the Uniquely Yours Ravelry Spin-a-long. I started, but I am not even half done yet. I have plans to take my wheel to work this week and to the shop on Friday night so I can get my stuff done. I sketched out my plan on how I wanted the color repeats to run in my yarn and started to spin. It will make more sense once I get more pictures up, but here is my progress so far…